Yes, let's take it there: Dominicans are not black... they are in fact the
original Hispanics. I repeat, the original "Hispanics."
At the center of
Dominican history are the Taínos, Spaniards, Africans and the Cibao
culture, which was founded by families from the Canary Islands. These
families were colonized and enslaved just like their future counterparts; which consisted of Spanish/European, North African, Mediterranean,
West African and Levantine peoples.
These Canary Island families were the largest group which made up the
Dominicans and mulattoes not of Sub-Saharan African origin. They were
brought there to repopulate the Spanish side of the Island.
Sir Francis
Drake stated that all the Taínos were wiped out before their arrival.
However, I beg to differ. I highly doubt that Sir Francis Drake scoured
the entire Island for Taínos in the mountains. Where their descendants can
still be found to this day. Yes, there are many dark-skinned
Dominicans, as well as brown and white.
However, that doesn't mean that
you can strip Dominicans of their history or culture because of some one-drop rule that comes from the racist United States.
Americans calling Dominicans racist is an oxymoron.
They use holier than thou language, but I have seen racism in
America from people of all colors. So they can kick rocks with their
tall tales. They keep writing articles about "colorism" in Dominican
homes and "mejorar la raza" and blah blah blah... As if blacks, whites and
Jews don't want their kids to marry people within their culture and
peoples. As if colorism is exclusive to Dominicans.
How do I know this? Because they have told me themselves. What hypocrisy, especially knowing
how tight-knit Dominicans are.
According to a 2015 genealogical DNA testing, the average Dominican is
52% European; outweighing African and Indigenous percentages even among
dark-skinned Dominicans.
While mtDNA is mostly comprised of African women -- which fits the historical narrative I mentioned before -- the Canary
Island families were the common Dominican "trunk."
Over time, through
mixing, the DNA ratios will keep changing, especially with the
millions of Haitian immigrants now living among Dominicans.
Considering the new
Afro-Latino movement which tries to hide its Canary origins -- which is
hilarious to me because where do they think their language comes from?
It isn't "Spanish," it's Canary Island Spanish with Taino slang. 15% percent of all
Dominicans carry rare Taino genes that are only found in the Dominican
Republic.
They always make mention of a high percentage of African mtDNA, neglecting to mention the fact that 15% descend from a strict Taino line of women.
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They
also conveniently discard the fact that not all African DNA is from West
Africa, as the E1B1B haplography is a well known North African genetic
marker, frequently found in Caucasian Mediterranean and Berber peoples.
The Berbers are the closest known relatives to the Canary
Islanders, where haplogroups H and U6 are frequent. Looking at a recent
Dominican mtDNA spreadsheets only proved my point as I saw the Taino and
Canary signatures among the West African ones, which are still more
significant.
Still, I am not here to provide biased information.
Dominicans are a mixed people, regardless of their skin color, despite the Haitians killing off most of the
white and mulatto Dominican population during their 22-year occupation of the Eastern side of Hispaniola.
Further withheld is the fact that these Caucasian indigenous
Canary Islanders were some of the first slaves on the island and back home, colonized
before the Taínos and West Africans arrived.
Here, you have 3 different genetic lines of
marginalized women, with 3 different phenotypes. Fascinating... Dominican
Y-DNA is mostly European, however we know about the Inquisition and all
the dirty secrets that come with it: relatively little mention of the
North African and Levantine influence in our Y-DNA.
Not every Dominican Y
is R1B.
Dominicans are Dominicans, a hybrid product of the New World. I find it racist of "black" and "white" North American people thinking they can just come in and hijack our people's narrative on the premise of our African DNA.
We have
become, perplexingly, some little insignificant anomaly under the wing of North American racial imperialism, one which they
can discard whenever they think is appropriate.
Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone is a
perfect example of North American racial "bullshit." As Dominicans, we don't have to take
crap from anybody. We are the original slaves; of every skin color, our
roots are deep!
We are the first people of the New World, and we have suffered enough. We are neither European nor African; we are Dominican.
Those
of you have forsaken your Dominicanness and who have lost your pride, may you live
forever. We want nothing to do with you.
Dominicans of all colors didn't die for our identity so that you could walk into
some coffee shop and then exit with new, contrarian rhetoric, spreading
sedition and separatism among my people, while trying to erase our, and your, true
origins.
However, you can't hide those thick eyebrows and your semi-Caucasian hair, along
with the Felipe and Fulano we clearly see in your face. Like, who the
hell are you kidding? We are Hispanic, the original Hispanics.
I'm really
getting sick and tired of self righteous Latino, African-American and
Jewish hack journalists trying to tell us our history in a
condescending tone. Who the hell are you!? Who told you that you can
talk to us like that!?
By: El Conde
By: El Conde
