cibaeño75 previously said:

"Let's speak the truth

why is it that the Spaniards, French and Portuguese in Caribbean and South America mixed with the natives, while the British did not? This isn't meant to offend anyone, but could it be tied into the fact that the Spaniards, French, and Portuguese were Catholic and the British were protestant? If anyone has any thoughts, i'd like to know. "

Who said they didn't? It's been proposed that as much as 20% of "white" america has some negro ancestry that in most cases they're not aware of. As a matter of fact many of Thomas Jefferson's descendants through Sally Hemmings have been living as white people, oblivious of their racial origins, for generations and that's just one highly publicized case that we know about. In the past many light-skinned American mullattoes who could pass for white would do just that. Besides, the vast majority African -Americans have some white blood in them as well as Amerindian ancestry. The US of A has seen more then her share of race mixing.

Lautaro previously said:

Ladronaso and Manhattanite,

I'm calling extremely afrocentric people afronazis because they have fallen on the same trap of their white counterparts, that is, the maintainment of the "one drop rule" above all else. This stupid rule, also called hipodescendancy, establish that if a white man and black woman have offspring, this offspring will be labeled on the weaker of both groups, read, the son of white man and a black woman is a black child. The people trying to rescue Taino roots not only are fighting to save that groups' contributions from extinction, but they are also figthing for the right of us mixed people to choose the heritage that suits our spiritual needs, this is specially poignant on the dominican case, where a good part of the population is tri-racial, so I say let's fight these one-droppist scum with everytthing we've got, cuz' we've every right in the world to reclaim our Taino heritage, specially when we've known the truth all along. Thank God that on this very point the dominican psyche hasn't allowed itself to be absorbed by americanization (at least here on the island).

Manhattanite previously said:

They are also fighting against the perspective of 'be[ing] labeled on the weaker of both groups', which I'm saddened to hear you endorse Laut, and I hope I'm misreading that sentence. Since they are fighting that 'weak' label part of their job is necessarily to point out to groups that Africa is part f their heritage. But calling them scum? Fighting them with everything we've got? A bit out of proportion to reality as they (afrocentric scholars) are not the force behind the exclusion of our Taino heritage, are relatively recent arrivals on the history scene, share the mission of amplifying the heritage menu for people's needs, and as I said before they blazed the trail in the academy.

Manhattanite previously said:

Laut we won't see eye-to-eye on this one, but whether they are comfortable or not remember that , just like erasing Taino history, it was NOT afrocentric scholars who set up ODR or who propagate it. I'm still baffled by the not-so-subtle hostility you have for them.

Cib I have made the same statement about the approximate phenotype of Dominicans. In the long run I'm glad that whole vocabulary is dying out.

Dominicanation previously said:



Taino my a$$. Sad to say but the Taino race has been extinct for quite some time now "GET OVER IT"
The so called 73% Mulattoes population of DR are nothing more than Haitians mixed with whatever the hell else. And I do agree with the one drop rule one drop of black blood should label you as a blacky and you Domincans are in FACT in denial.... Last time I checked Laut was trying to pass himself as a white. LOL. One could only imagine the look on Laut's face when he found out that he wasn't WHITE. Oh my. Funny thing is every time Lau goes back to DR he still pretends that he is white matter of fact he seldom encourage others to call him BLANCO. Ahh! stupid confused negro.