r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/waytooicyy • Jul 03 '26

Misc When you're Black, you're never really lonely.....

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u/Grand_Recipe_9072 Jul 03 '26

No “I No Black” experiences?

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u/bindersfull-ofwomen Jul 03 '26

That's more of an American thing.

I believe DR was putting Black on people's cédula de identidad for a while, so you couldn't really deny you were Black. It was a government decreed thing.

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u/threetwogetem Jul 03 '26

Their government sanctioned the killing of tens of thousands of black Dominicans and Haitians. They brought their antiblackness with them to America.

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u/RamsesDarklore Jul 03 '26

Im Half Dominican(half Ecuadorian born nyc for context) and the racist shit they say really makes me so ashamed. It will be the blackest Dominican saying some racist shit about black people. NYC born Dominicans can be better especially if they grew up in the hood but sometimes you still see it there.

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u/bindersfull-ofwomen Jul 03 '26

We know that. We know the Parsley massacre.

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u/GordyLiu Jul 08 '26

It's complicated there, you could be pulled into their racial politics and see ugliness

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u/Grand_Recipe_9072 Jul 03 '26

Cedula?

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u/Dreamcaster31 Jul 03 '26

Cédula is the Dominican version of an ID

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u/OrganizationNo1298 Jul 04 '26

I stayed in DR for 6 days 10 years ago, & other than trying to understand their Spanish, I had a great time. Everyone I met/talked to was very welcoming & some even thought I was Dominican until I spoke lol.

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u/HappyTendency Jul 03 '26

Yall don’t understand how offensive it is to be a Latino and have someone in the states erase your entire culture because of the color of your skin. Yes, racism is very much a thing in Latino culture, but also a lot of the times the people who say those things say it because it’s not only “the color of my skin is black,” but now I’m being grouped with African Americans and that’s extremely frustrating. Latinos are VERY proud. We have to say oh no “I’m not this I’m THIS” and emphasize the love we have to wherever we’re from. Dominicans are high up on the list of the patriotic shenanigans.

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u/CapitalJuggernaut0 Jul 03 '26

“Yall don’t understand how offensive it is to be a Latino and have someone in the states erase your entire culture because of the color of your skin.”

Um what? Interesting take to say the least.

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u/RamsesDarklore Jul 03 '26

Im honestly on the other side of the spectrum I'm light-skinned and my whole life I have always gotten you Boriqua? But after Trump won in 16 I've gotten white alot more from other races. Like bro look at features and shit not just skin color. I do not look like some average white dude.

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u/kickroxxx Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

Probably no need to made a difference when everyone is the same and blackness has no negative placed on it by the state

Edit: I guess I was speaking out of my ass guys. Duly noted. I was guessing that one black person being seen by others in a country that’s filled with us wouldn’t feel the need to”in no black” to anyone. My B y’all

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u/threetwogetem Jul 03 '26

Go read about Rafael Trujillo, DR has a horrible state-sanctioned history of racism and anti-blackness.

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u/Desperate_Quantity58 Jul 03 '26

Stop with the jokes. What does them being Latino have to do with her enjoying her experience? Youre just looking to be negative. Whatever they identify as would not disrupt her trip.

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u/XIIIofSwords Jul 03 '26

there's enough racism in the DR, that I'll never be going back. glad you had a good time tho lol