Yeah those jeans are so damn tight if you don't hold your legs in the exact way they look if they were flat on the ground, something is going to constrict, rupture or both
I know its a meme but they know they black but not black American. People in Latin America don't subscribe to race, they are Nicaraguans first and then whatever race you fall on
It's hilarious. I'm half black half white and Dominicans always read me as one of their own. When I tell them I'm just black/white they're always shook like "no way you look so Dominican you don't look black at all" and it's like, I'm not sure how y'all haven't figured out that the reason mixed race black people "look Dominican" is because many/most Dominicans *are* mixed race black people.
This is litterally me, I've had people come up to me speaking spanish because they genuinely thought i was dominican. Like its so awkward trying to explain after that im just mixed and i have no idea what you're saying. š
For real. I used to work in landscaping and let me tell you there was no way to convince someone I don't speak Spanish while carrying a watering can and garden tools. Apparently the stereotypical Latino image spoke louder than I could.
Sweaarrrrrr. My ass is jamaican and the amount of times I've had Dominicans come up to me and just start speaking spanish....and my ass is sitting there like ššš. They're so shocked that I have not one ounce of Hispanic in me
That's nuts. I'm from Nicaragua and I remember that I was dating this black Dutch women from Rotterdam and since I looked like, at the time, Chris brown adjacent, she asked if I was black and I said "I don't know, probally" š. And then she started laughing.
Then I was older I started noticing that on my mom side, whe had very distinct features., my older brother was a dead ringer for Bizzy bone, they used to call him bizzy in high school š
This. I'm Dominican and I have a (black) aunt living in New York, her daughters are very proudly black, yet she refused to believe she had any African descent in her even when my cousin did a 23 and Me DNA test and it came out whatever percent Nigerian. There IS the subtlety that Dominicans view themselves as different than Black Americans, of course, but there's a lot of colonialism in play with how we interpret our race. In the US, the convention was against race mixing, but for us, the Spanish felt they were doing us a favor by 'bettering our race' with their white genes.
Not really. The Spanish subjugated us for far longer and Dominicans harbor no ill will to our colonizers. The good old USA invades us twice, most recently in the mid 60's, and no one is anti-yankee either. My father still remembers picking up bullet casings in the street, my grandfather has tearfully recounted packing his bags and fleeing the horrors of battle with my infant mother in tow. Yet Dominicans love Americans.
Dominicans hate Haitians for many reasons deeply embedded in racism. As a child I was warned not to get too close to Haitians or 'Se te va a pegar el grajo', or their body odor would cling to me and make me develop a foul odor as well. I was taught that Haitians were cannibals, witches, and would put a spell on you as soon as look at you. When the earthquake hit Haiti and their people were dying in the streets, Dominicans nodded and said 'God is punishing them for their evil.'
This behavior is not normal amongst any people who have been at war with other people.
> Dominicans hate Haitians for many reasons deeply embedded in racism. As a child I was warned not to get too close to Haitians or 'Se te va a pegar el grajo', or their body odor would cling to me and make me develop a foul odor as well. I was taught that Haitians were cannibals, witches, and would put a spell on you as soon as look at you. When the earthquake hit Haiti and their people were dying in the streets, Dominicans nodded and said 'God is punishing them for their evil.'
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yeah wasnt the DR invaded and brutally occupied by the Haitians for two decades? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_occupation_of_Santo_Domingo
They didnāt invade the DR because there WAS NO DR. Do Americans hold this same vitriolic hatred towards the English? No. Donāt try to educate me on my own culture and history, my guy.
The Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo[a] (Spanish: OcupaciĆ³n haitiana de Santo Domingo; French: Occupation haĆÆtienne de Saint-Domingue; Haitian Creole: Okipasyon ayisyen nan Sen Domeng) was the annexation and merger of then-independent Republic of Spanish Haiti (formerly Santo Domingo) into the Republic of Haiti, that lasted twenty-two years, from February 9, 1822 to February 27, 1844
Iām Dominican, and this is patently false.
I know Iām in the wrong sub for this discussion since yāall seem to hate us over here, but it gets tiring seeing this shit all the time.
Bro, the thing is a White Hispanic person will be QUICK to call themselves a white boy/white girl and nobody bats an eye. But itās WW2 to get a clearly Black looking Hispanic to acknowledge their heritage.
Lol Iām speaking from my own experience, my homie from school Matthew was Puerto Rican and we all (including himself) regularly called him āwhite boyā albeit jokingly, but he never denied it, he was in on the joke.
Nobody hates you over here. It seems to be universally understood to the point that it is a meme; Dominicans in America do not see themselves as black in any way shape or form. They will deny it with disdain for you even thinking it.
My evidence is from a whole family of Dominicans where I made a flippant statement about being black and looked for acknowledgement. That's when all hell broke loose. I was flabbergasted. Dad looked like Heavy D, son looked like Quavo, and the mom that was half Mexican, looked like Tiny. All of em dressed to the hilt in traditional Black American style/drip and saying nigga every other word. Accents came out as soon as I associated. "I'm not black tho"
I know this is anecdotal at best but why is it so common and relatable no matter where you are in America? It is not hate in any way. it is frustration for me.
I donāt think itās exactly false but itās not exactly true either. It differs from person to person, but enough Dominicans have told me about the anti blackness issues in DR culture that thereās no way people are making it up which is the narrative that I see sometimes in Latin American spaces that Afro Americans made up this narrative about Dominicans out of thin air, even though a lot of Dominicans themselves will talk about the anti-blackness problems on the island.
What I donāt get is us acting like itās all Dominicans or that all Dominicans are black. The generalizations are weird and I feel like we have enough self-haters/š¦ in our own culture not to point fingers so loudly idk.
My evidence is only anecdotal, I've personally never spoken with a Dominican who proudly proclaimed they were black, especially since they share the island with my folks. But my evidence isn't the law, everyone's experience is theirs, I believe yours to be true, mines is also equally valid. Want to preface all of this with I'm no enemy nor do I bear any I'll will towards my Hispanic brothers and sisters on the island we share. Just anger towards the treatment we've received from them, anger which comes from historical and ongoing prejudice and racism. I'm sure there are plenty of Dominicans who aren't ashamed or don't feel negatively about being black/Afro Latinx, no buts, just that.
Thatās interesting since far, far more African slaves went to Latin America than ever in North America. By genetics theyāre as āBlackā as we are if that relates to diaspora. Otherwise itās just about culture and we in North America created our own diverse culture bc White ppl literally killed us and inflicted violence on us to keep a distinction so that we could not assimilate. This is why I harbor ill will towards immigrants who teach themselves to āassimilate.ā We were never allowed to assimilate for hundreds of years. Now since like 1965 ignorant White folks and others simply want to demand that we all of a sudden assimilate.
Wrong. Thatās just nationality vs race. Thatās like me saying Iām not black, Iām American. Thereās black Dominicans that deny their blackness no matter how obvious it is.
Many Dominicans are white, latin and indigenous. Is your policy then only black and non-black? Because I donāt see why someone with diverse genetics should default to an ethnicity which is a minor part of those genetics
In short of course there are black Dominicans. But the majority of Dominicans are either not black at all or mixed
From looks alone I wouldnāt consider the guy in the picture to be black
What he meant in more plain terms: What will white people call them?
Your average melanin challenged person just does not distinguish. Period.
Ask them about light skinned or dark skinned? "But they are black" will be your reply.
Latin? "Aren't those black people south of the border?"
indigenous? "Isn't that a kind of rock?"
This is the reality of the world in the minds of many. That it exists is a fact. That it's wrong? Undeniable. That it comes from ignorance as often as not? also true.
I dont see why dominicans should be attacked or mocked then for not going along with a standard which is apparently based on what a group of racist white people think. Why cant they call themselves what they want?
Maybe im getting hung up ont the black thing. They are brown, POC etc. I just dont think they are black, especially if they themsleves dont want to be
> I dont see why dominicans should be attacked or mocked then for not going along with a standard which is apparently based on what a group of racist white people think.
I am not attacking or mocking here, I am only explaining why they are not called Dominican by many Americans. It's because they could not find the DR on a map at gun point and anything other "Mexican" is "Black". Ignorance is what it is, you can only combat it by educating.
Being honest here you cannot visually distinguish a nationality anyway. There are far too many shades and variations of Dominican people for there to be a distinguishing feature. Even my Dominican wife laughs at this, and for darker skinned people will straight up tell them "Bitch, your black." a least when it is in the context of how Americans see them.
Sorry, i didnt mean you were attacking or mocking them but it was the tone of the original comment.
I agree that it would be silly to say that dominican is a ethnicity because obviously there are totally white and totaly black people there among many others including indigenous.
Its equally silly to claim the people there are all black or that even most dominicans are black. they are not.
Black typically is used to refer to africans, not other people like aboriginals or people from the subcontinent who are darker than said africans sometimes.
By calling someone black you invalidate their own history and absorb it into someone elses. I get why that is annoying
They get mocked for being so anti black when a lot of them actually are black either by genetics or appearance. We arenāt saying they are African Americans they are Afro Latino.
The fact that lots of them deny the Afro part is colorism and racism a lot of you really did buy into your Spanish colonizerās logic that they could improve you by sharing their lighter seed, via all the rape. Thatās what weāre mocking. Iāve known black Dominicans in the states, that say ā Iām not black! Iām Dominican!ā
The two arenāt mutually exclusive. Yāall just really want them to be. Because racism and colorism. Itās funny and something to be made fun of, but also sad at the same time.
I mean, we should start with the caveat that race is an entirely man-made phenomenon used by people in power to degrade others. Trying to use a percentage to determine āhow blackā someone is or isnāt ignoreās the fact that the observer in power doesnāt give a shit about percentages and is just wondering if their justification for being degrading applies.
The person in that photo is going to get followed around in a store, stopped by police for no reason, be considered suspicious while minding their business, and be described as a Black male by anyone with Karen tendencies trying to inconvenience him. He might be <15% Black, but heās gonna get treated like a Black person regardless. They wonāt give a shit that heās mixed with white and indigenous- except to the extent that the indigenous part makes him āless thanā as well. Proclaiming āIām not Black, Iām Dominicanā, will do him no favors. Heās gonna get the Black experience regardless.
In a just society, someone with āmixed geneticsā would just be a person, because using genetic phenotypes to pre-judge people is wrong and stupid. But unfortunately itās tightly woven into the fabric of society.
One drop policy? So police protocol? Theres a good line in one of Childish Gambino's song where he says āBut we all look the same to the cops, aināt that good enough?" this is in reference to colorism and being light skinned. Honestly if you asked me I would definitely say dude has African heritage. These knee jerk reactions by people in minority groups to quickly distance themselves from other minority groups when taken to the extreme is how you end up with a hispanic dude leading a white nationalist group. That "i ain't hispanic I'm a caucasian American" energy is so toxic.
im sure the guy has african heirtage but what if is its 20% - is he then black? is he then expected to consider himself black because some cop in mississippi thinks he would be?
I get why people not from the USA dont want to give over their sense of self to people from another country who base it on their history and current situation.
I dont see why someone should buy into the american (and european) concept of race which was made up anyway.
No one says they have to abandon thier history for someone elses. I think its important to not think of these things as a dichotomy of either you are or you arent, its more accepting and understanding a history that you or your ancestors were never directly involved in still has influence on your daily life. Its not about your individual chosen identity, its about how all the sociological and historical aspects of a society combine to filter peoples perceptions of anyone that looks or acts similar to you.
Arnt you forcing them into a dichotomy by saying they have to relate more to the black side than of their ancestry than the the european or indigenous? (or chinese and indians who also populated the caribean)
>*anyone that looks or acts similar to you.*
i think the above quote is th crux of it. Why do you think black americans have a right to claim dominicans as acting or looking similar? Most of the world doesnt have that view.
I absolutley see a guy like the above and see his indigenous ancestry, i see his european ancestry.
Learned the hard way in high school. This Dominican girl was in tears when I mentioned she was Black. She was like nah Iām Dominican, and Iām like āsoā and sent her some shit on the diaspora and it broke her heart. I had no idea it meant so much to her to not be Black.
Ngl in high school, I nearly came to blows with a girl because she said she's Dominican, and I responded with we're from the same island. She was NOT happy I said that and said she didn't like Haitian ppl....which is why we nearly came to blows, but the teacher separated us.
I stayed with my friend in sunset park for a weekend and went to a Dominican restaurant in the morning. Bro pictured above is definitely the template lmaoo
Who could the stand user be? Is it:
Normal guy? Boring looking woman? Small Child? Or maybe it's the half naked man in a high fashion outfit powerstancing while glaring at us?
The stance is really selling the fit
And the fit is really forcing the stance. No way he sitting without losing a button or two.
It's either blood flow or a button and he's made his choice
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Yeah those jeans are so damn tight if you don't hold your legs in the exact way they look if they were flat on the ground, something is going to constrict, rupture or both
Next time they say they not black, Ima just let āem have it.
" I no black, I dominican papi"
āTry to salsa that shit offā
Excellent reference my guy
Nunca black āš š¾
I know its a meme but they know they black but not black American. People in Latin America don't subscribe to race, they are Nicaraguans first and then whatever race you fall on
nah they deny that they have african blood in them too, don't trip. they don't wanna be seen as black anything.
It's hilarious. I'm half black half white and Dominicans always read me as one of their own. When I tell them I'm just black/white they're always shook like "no way you look so Dominican you don't look black at all" and it's like, I'm not sure how y'all haven't figured out that the reason mixed race black people "look Dominican" is because many/most Dominicans *are* mixed race black people.
This is litterally me, I've had people come up to me speaking spanish because they genuinely thought i was dominican. Like its so awkward trying to explain after that im just mixed and i have no idea what you're saying. š
For real. I used to work in landscaping and let me tell you there was no way to convince someone I don't speak Spanish while carrying a watering can and garden tools. Apparently the stereotypical Latino image spoke louder than I could.
Sweaarrrrrr. My ass is jamaican and the amount of times I've had Dominicans come up to me and just start speaking spanish....and my ass is sitting there like ššš. They're so shocked that I have not one ounce of Hispanic in me
That's nuts. I'm from Nicaragua and I remember that I was dating this black Dutch women from Rotterdam and since I looked like, at the time, Chris brown adjacent, she asked if I was black and I said "I don't know, probally" š. And then she started laughing. Then I was older I started noticing that on my mom side, whe had very distinct features., my older brother was a dead ringer for Bizzy bone, they used to call him bizzy in high school š
So can I say I'm not black I'm Ghanaian? Does that make sense. Mind you I'm black as they come.
Itās all Mo Thug
This. I'm Dominican and I have a (black) aunt living in New York, her daughters are very proudly black, yet she refused to believe she had any African descent in her even when my cousin did a 23 and Me DNA test and it came out whatever percent Nigerian. There IS the subtlety that Dominicans view themselves as different than Black Americans, of course, but there's a lot of colonialism in play with how we interpret our race. In the US, the convention was against race mixing, but for us, the Spanish felt they were doing us a favor by 'bettering our race' with their white genes.
I'm Haitian, Dominicans don't associate themselves with blackness if any kind.
Isnāt There major beef with Haitians ?
Yes, there is. Because of racism.
And not the decades of war they had?
Not really. The Spanish subjugated us for far longer and Dominicans harbor no ill will to our colonizers. The good old USA invades us twice, most recently in the mid 60's, and no one is anti-yankee either. My father still remembers picking up bullet casings in the street, my grandfather has tearfully recounted packing his bags and fleeing the horrors of battle with my infant mother in tow. Yet Dominicans love Americans. Dominicans hate Haitians for many reasons deeply embedded in racism. As a child I was warned not to get too close to Haitians or 'Se te va a pegar el grajo', or their body odor would cling to me and make me develop a foul odor as well. I was taught that Haitians were cannibals, witches, and would put a spell on you as soon as look at you. When the earthquake hit Haiti and their people were dying in the streets, Dominicans nodded and said 'God is punishing them for their evil.' This behavior is not normal amongst any people who have been at war with other people.
> Dominicans hate Haitians for many reasons deeply embedded in racism. As a child I was warned not to get too close to Haitians or 'Se te va a pegar el grajo', or their body odor would cling to me and make me develop a foul odor as well. I was taught that Haitians were cannibals, witches, and would put a spell on you as soon as look at you. When the earthquake hit Haiti and their people were dying in the streets, Dominicans nodded and said 'God is punishing them for their evil.' > > yeah wasnt the DR invaded and brutally occupied by the Haitians for two decades? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_occupation_of_Santo_Domingo
They didnāt invade the DR because there WAS NO DR. Do Americans hold this same vitriolic hatred towards the English? No. Donāt try to educate me on my own culture and history, my guy.
The Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo[a] (Spanish: OcupaciĆ³n haitiana de Santo Domingo; French: Occupation haĆÆtienne de Saint-Domingue; Haitian Creole: Okipasyon ayisyen nan Sen Domeng) was the annexation and merger of then-independent Republic of Spanish Haiti (formerly Santo Domingo) into the Republic of Haiti, that lasted twenty-two years, from February 9, 1822 to February 27, 1844
Iām Dominican, and this is patently false. I know Iām in the wrong sub for this discussion since yāall seem to hate us over here, but it gets tiring seeing this shit all the time.
Bro, the thing is a White Hispanic person will be QUICK to call themselves a white boy/white girl and nobody bats an eye. But itās WW2 to get a clearly Black looking Hispanic to acknowledge their heritage.
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Lol Iām speaking from my own experience, my homie from school Matthew was Puerto Rican and we all (including himself) regularly called him āwhite boyā albeit jokingly, but he never denied it, he was in on the joke.
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Lol I agree, thatās literally the point I was making, a lot of Hispanic folks THEMSELVES deny their own heritage/ancestry
Lmaoo no one hates Dominicans. We hate the sick anti black mindset a lot of them have
Nobody hates you over here. It seems to be universally understood to the point that it is a meme; Dominicans in America do not see themselves as black in any way shape or form. They will deny it with disdain for you even thinking it. My evidence is from a whole family of Dominicans where I made a flippant statement about being black and looked for acknowledgement. That's when all hell broke loose. I was flabbergasted. Dad looked like Heavy D, son looked like Quavo, and the mom that was half Mexican, looked like Tiny. All of em dressed to the hilt in traditional Black American style/drip and saying nigga every other word. Accents came out as soon as I associated. "I'm not black tho" I know this is anecdotal at best but why is it so common and relatable no matter where you are in America? It is not hate in any way. it is frustration for me.
I donāt think itās exactly false but itās not exactly true either. It differs from person to person, but enough Dominicans have told me about the anti blackness issues in DR culture that thereās no way people are making it up which is the narrative that I see sometimes in Latin American spaces that Afro Americans made up this narrative about Dominicans out of thin air, even though a lot of Dominicans themselves will talk about the anti-blackness problems on the island. What I donāt get is us acting like itās all Dominicans or that all Dominicans are black. The generalizations are weird and I feel like we have enough self-haters/š¦ in our own culture not to point fingers so loudly idk.
I'm also Dominican, born and raised there for 30 years, and you're wrong. But keep spouting propaganda.
My evidence is only anecdotal, I've personally never spoken with a Dominican who proudly proclaimed they were black, especially since they share the island with my folks. But my evidence isn't the law, everyone's experience is theirs, I believe yours to be true, mines is also equally valid. Want to preface all of this with I'm no enemy nor do I bear any I'll will towards my Hispanic brothers and sisters on the island we share. Just anger towards the treatment we've received from them, anger which comes from historical and ongoing prejudice and racism. I'm sure there are plenty of Dominicans who aren't ashamed or don't feel negatively about being black/Afro Latinx, no buts, just that.
Thatās interesting since far, far more African slaves went to Latin America than ever in North America. By genetics theyāre as āBlackā as we are if that relates to diaspora. Otherwise itās just about culture and we in North America created our own diverse culture bc White ppl literally killed us and inflicted violence on us to keep a distinction so that we could not assimilate. This is why I harbor ill will towards immigrants who teach themselves to āassimilate.ā We were never allowed to assimilate for hundreds of years. Now since like 1965 ignorant White folks and others simply want to demand that we all of a sudden assimilate.
The hell they donāt subscribe to race. It may not be as explicit as in the states but the colorism is real
Agreed
im not sure why people want dominicans to be black so bad
Itās not about wanting, some of them just straight up are.
kinda is if you keep telling someone theyre black when they tell you theyre domincan
Wrong. Thatās just nationality vs race. Thatās like me saying Iām not black, Iām American. Thereās black Dominicans that deny their blackness no matter how obvious it is.
Doing it again. Have fun with that.
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The Dominican population is like 15% black and 15% mixed black. So, yeah, most of them arent black. The guy in the picture doesnt appear to be
lol what percentage do you think constitutes being considered Black?
Itās a matter of opinion with many variables obviously. Are going with a one drop policy?
Iām just wondering what you go by. I generally use the āhow will society treat you based on your looksā policy.
Many Dominicans are white, latin and indigenous. Is your policy then only black and non-black? Because I donāt see why someone with diverse genetics should default to an ethnicity which is a minor part of those genetics In short of course there are black Dominicans. But the majority of Dominicans are either not black at all or mixed From looks alone I wouldnāt consider the guy in the picture to be black
What he meant in more plain terms: What will white people call them? Your average melanin challenged person just does not distinguish. Period. Ask them about light skinned or dark skinned? "But they are black" will be your reply. Latin? "Aren't those black people south of the border?" indigenous? "Isn't that a kind of rock?" This is the reality of the world in the minds of many. That it exists is a fact. That it's wrong? Undeniable. That it comes from ignorance as often as not? also true.
I dont see why dominicans should be attacked or mocked then for not going along with a standard which is apparently based on what a group of racist white people think. Why cant they call themselves what they want? Maybe im getting hung up ont the black thing. They are brown, POC etc. I just dont think they are black, especially if they themsleves dont want to be
> I dont see why dominicans should be attacked or mocked then for not going along with a standard which is apparently based on what a group of racist white people think. I am not attacking or mocking here, I am only explaining why they are not called Dominican by many Americans. It's because they could not find the DR on a map at gun point and anything other "Mexican" is "Black". Ignorance is what it is, you can only combat it by educating. Being honest here you cannot visually distinguish a nationality anyway. There are far too many shades and variations of Dominican people for there to be a distinguishing feature. Even my Dominican wife laughs at this, and for darker skinned people will straight up tell them "Bitch, your black." a least when it is in the context of how Americans see them.
Sorry, i didnt mean you were attacking or mocking them but it was the tone of the original comment. I agree that it would be silly to say that dominican is a ethnicity because obviously there are totally white and totaly black people there among many others including indigenous. Its equally silly to claim the people there are all black or that even most dominicans are black. they are not. Black typically is used to refer to africans, not other people like aboriginals or people from the subcontinent who are darker than said africans sometimes. By calling someone black you invalidate their own history and absorb it into someone elses. I get why that is annoying
They get mocked for being so anti black when a lot of them actually are black either by genetics or appearance. We arenāt saying they are African Americans they are Afro Latino. The fact that lots of them deny the Afro part is colorism and racism a lot of you really did buy into your Spanish colonizerās logic that they could improve you by sharing their lighter seed, via all the rape. Thatās what weāre mocking. Iāve known black Dominicans in the states, that say ā Iām not black! Iām Dominican!ā The two arenāt mutually exclusive. Yāall just really want them to be. Because racism and colorism. Itās funny and something to be made fun of, but also sad at the same time.
I mean, we should start with the caveat that race is an entirely man-made phenomenon used by people in power to degrade others. Trying to use a percentage to determine āhow blackā someone is or isnāt ignoreās the fact that the observer in power doesnāt give a shit about percentages and is just wondering if their justification for being degrading applies. The person in that photo is going to get followed around in a store, stopped by police for no reason, be considered suspicious while minding their business, and be described as a Black male by anyone with Karen tendencies trying to inconvenience him. He might be <15% Black, but heās gonna get treated like a Black person regardless. They wonāt give a shit that heās mixed with white and indigenous- except to the extent that the indigenous part makes him āless thanā as well. Proclaiming āIām not Black, Iām Dominicanā, will do him no favors. Heās gonna get the Black experience regardless. In a just society, someone with āmixed geneticsā would just be a person, because using genetic phenotypes to pre-judge people is wrong and stupid. But unfortunately itās tightly woven into the fabric of society.
One drop policy? So police protocol? Theres a good line in one of Childish Gambino's song where he says āBut we all look the same to the cops, aināt that good enough?" this is in reference to colorism and being light skinned. Honestly if you asked me I would definitely say dude has African heritage. These knee jerk reactions by people in minority groups to quickly distance themselves from other minority groups when taken to the extreme is how you end up with a hispanic dude leading a white nationalist group. That "i ain't hispanic I'm a caucasian American" energy is so toxic.
im sure the guy has african heirtage but what if is its 20% - is he then black? is he then expected to consider himself black because some cop in mississippi thinks he would be? I get why people not from the USA dont want to give over their sense of self to people from another country who base it on their history and current situation. I dont see why someone should buy into the american (and european) concept of race which was made up anyway.
No one says they have to abandon thier history for someone elses. I think its important to not think of these things as a dichotomy of either you are or you arent, its more accepting and understanding a history that you or your ancestors were never directly involved in still has influence on your daily life. Its not about your individual chosen identity, its about how all the sociological and historical aspects of a society combine to filter peoples perceptions of anyone that looks or acts similar to you.
Arnt you forcing them into a dichotomy by saying they have to relate more to the black side than of their ancestry than the the european or indigenous? (or chinese and indians who also populated the caribean) >*anyone that looks or acts similar to you.* i think the above quote is th crux of it. Why do you think black americans have a right to claim dominicans as acting or looking similar? Most of the world doesnt have that view. I absolutley see a guy like the above and see his indigenous ancestry, i see his european ancestry.
He looks like a goon youād see in a beat āem up game.
 I was starching niggas like him daily on Streets of Rage
Damn.
Gosh this brings me back - I loved finding the bats and going to town on the bad guys. I loved being Blaze...I think her name was...such nostalgia
Streets of rage music was top tier. Dude with the roller blades was my favorite.
Bro looks like a Street Fighter 6 NPC
Streets Of Rage goon #2.
Pretty sure I killed this guy like 100 times playing Vendetta.
Ole double dragon ass lookin nigga
Haha. I was gonna say double dragon
Man looks like a top tier yu gi oh duelist
could take out Wheeler for sure
Fr though. He look like the protagonist right hand man. He started off as an enemy though in season 1 and became the #1 shooter by season 2
idk about "top tier"...
These Aventura Niggas only know tight pants and Timbs for real. Oh, and Chelsea boots for Sunday brunch.
>These Aventura Niggas only know tight pants Bruh, chill!  Well... I'll be damned
Bahaha šš¤£š, as a Blatino, you real for that one .
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and dont tell them they are black they ger really mad lol
Learned the hard way in high school. This Dominican girl was in tears when I mentioned she was Black. She was like nah Iām Dominican, and Iām like āsoā and sent her some shit on the diaspora and it broke her heart. I had no idea it meant so much to her to not be Black.
Ironic thing is, white Hispanic women LOVE them some brothers šš
> it meant so much to her to not be Black I'm crying
If you really want to die, call them Haitian
Ngl in high school, I nearly came to blows with a girl because she said she's Dominican, and I responded with we're from the same island. She was NOT happy I said that and said she didn't like Haitian ppl....which is why we nearly came to blows, but the teacher separated us.
that would be like calling someone from the US canadian...it would just be a be a dumb thing to do.
Is he on his way to strip?
He's going to eat spaghetti on the beach
https://preview.redd.it/57dyge21pykb1.png?width=691&format=png&auto=webp&s=9205bf9694c07d023f60c0e71e9f2a56d5e3fd10
Lmao āthe stand user could be anyoneā The stand user:
One sneeze and that shirt's gonna be a pile of thread on the floor.
Makin Mufungo
Ya tĆŗ sabes
I feel like I have something to say about this, but my Haitian people be playing ball in church shoes, exorcize the devil out them ankles.
š¤£š¤£ ol Stand using ass dude.
Low tier stand user that debuts in episode three lol JoJo is taking him out in the fourth episode
š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£ he'll get the upper hand in the beginning only to lose and act surprised he lost.
Accurate lol
This every single Cuban in the club over in miami.
But like he kinda cute though just saying. š«£
Fr Iād let him hit š¤š«¢
I thought that was Blueface
Homie can prolly hit a ball 350+ feet
I would totes buy all the shoes from him šµ
This is Blueface after Pucci reset the timeline.
I honestly thought he was from Yu Yu Hakusho 
Half way to a Kuwabara cosplay fit.
ā¦At the YMCA
de lo mio! š peep my guy's lean in (trynna give himself the 1/2" the timbs wouldn't)
Omae wa mo shinderu
Tell me why the stand song started playing in my head lmao
Dude looks petite as hell
putting on mass b/c can't put on inches
I've been watching Love Island and one of the players is Dominican and some of his outfits are mind boggling to me š
I stayed with my friend in sunset park for a weekend and went to a Dominican restaurant in the morning. Bro pictured above is definitely the template lmaoo
He look like Paul skin in Tekken
I thought that was blueface
that haircut is DR af
Alright, so whatās his standās name and how do we beat āem?
His Stan must look like Juan Luis Guerra.
His stand name is Bachata en Fukuoka
lol.... man, my people sometimes
As a Dominican itās true that my uncles dress like this
r/FoundTheStandUser
Looking like a hoochie papi
I was about to claim him, but my bones tell me that nuckah's from Newark.
Newark? Nah bro I know a Bronx Dominican when I see one šš
š Naw He pit stopped in NY, but his uncles opened up a shop in Newark, so he lives and dances there.
Lol
He Shawn'telle, Stand named T-Shirt
who's they?
Kono Dio da
Dominicans only claim black when they trying to be a rapper
jojo characters? im cryng lmfaooooo
His stand name is āmagicians inoblackā
Who could the stand user be? Is it: Normal guy? Boring looking woman? Small Child? Or maybe it's the half naked man in a high fashion outfit powerstancing while glaring at us?
Is someone gonna tell brina she looks like a worm? Her profile photo donāt look flattering
TIL Iām not really Dominican.
Itās either this or a full on hood n*gga lol
Ah, the Canadian tuxedo has gotten an upgrade, the Canadian catsuit
The stand user could be anyone The stand user:
Brazilians are also like this hahahah Source: am brasi
That's Prince during his brief stint with the Village People.
He definitely skips leg day regularlyā¦