Kreyolbro....  I don't remember seeing the "who cares" thread. It was just information and I posted it because I can!

What do you have coming up for us?

Lenny

Do tell us which story is twisted or exagerated?   we are waiting

kreyolbro@aol.com

Lenny,

I think you have to talk to a lot more Domicans and Haitians if you think your little visit to DR has given you all the facts. Read your history book and do your research to see how troubled the relationship between these two countries really is.

The fact that your friend was well received means nothing. You guys were tourists, you were traveling and were probably well to do. Try hanging out with an average Haitian migrant worker who has been forced to enter the DR illegally, work for way below minimum wage, and is in constant fear of being deported. Ask that person if Dominicans like him. After you find such a person, and spend some time with him, come back to theis site and let us know then, what you really think of Haitian DR relations.

Rachel

Awwww maaan...this again!

wow, I bumped into this site while doing research to start a new French Carribean site, I love this little place, it's comfortable just like my little Haiti...anyway, I am born Haitian and love it so much that I refuse after 16 years in this country to become a citizen so you can imagine how much it hurts me to hear stories like this...I am 25 and have lived alot of different places in the U.S. I lived in Connecticut once in my life where it was all white and lived in Ny/Nj in hispanic and black neighborhoods so I have seen and heard it all...

My last address was in a all hispanic section of Newark, NJ called Forest Hills where I became like a brother to a group of Dominicans and that's when I learned so much about Dominicans and their republic.  I never even knew the place existed when i was in Haiti for whatever reason.  I found out how much when we are face to face we get along better then blood brothers yet when we dont know about one another we think the worst of either sides.  I have to admitt from my experience with Dominicans I think that most of them if not all are really ashamed of their blacknest.  I had a friend they called Chocolatay who is very dark and he even acts like it's a curse god put on him to be that complexion.  Aside from that, I love them people very much and they love me so much until this day after 2 years apart not a week go by we dont find a way to hang out.  I dont know if after meeting me they still think negative of Haitians, but I do know that the only way we can see the beaty in each other is if we forget what we are thought and interract with one another. 

Dominican people are one of my favorite people in the world now that I got to know them face to face.  Love them so much I cant stop watching Shaft and laughing at Peoples Hernandez...if you are Haitian reach out and touch a Dominican and if you are Dominican reach out and touch a Haitian, you will be suprised at the similarities we possess.  As for being ashamed of our African heritage or  to be black, that I think Dominicans and even alot of Haitians learned from Europeans.  How can a Dominican be ashamed of his African heritage, it's all over the music.  If the poster of this is reading, tell your father if he's ashamed of Africa never to play Merengue again because those are African beats that he's bopping to.  Europeans never mastered the Tambota, so how can he say he's not of African descent?

Keep researching and learning about cultures, you will be a bright young man, I just started doing what you doing and I'm 25.  If you need any help let me know, I am always open to cultural explorations.  email me: johnyjacques@msn.com

Welcome Johny Jacques;

Of course when individuals get to know each other and develop friendships then they become human to each other. History is full of such stories, Germans helping Jews, whites helping blacks during slavery, etc.

As for your reference to music; yes you can despise a people and still enjoy their music or be entertained by them.  Whites learning and adapting black music and dance during and after slavery in the South is a perfect example. Don't confuse that with acceptance.

We are talking about about a national and cultural mentality which is negrophobic and is based on virulent anti-haitianisme.  The mentality that any demagoge can easily turn into genocide as Trujillio did in 1937.

kreyolbro@aol.com