Talk:Afro-Dominicans

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The one drop rule is so tired

Racial discrimination against Black people in the Dominican Republic, and else where in Latin America, does not give people the license to implement the one-drop rule on its inhabitants just to make up for the sins of slavery, the caste system, and color bias engrained in this region of the world. All this page does is inflate the number of Afro Dominicans by adding the percentages of mixed-race people and those of Black ancestry all together and hilariously, at the most pathetic attempt of subtly, imply that mixed race Dominicans are "really Black". What gives? The one drop rule is equally toxic way to look at race and it wouldn't be acceptable if the number of Whites/Spanish descended were inflated to such ridiculous percentages. Why does race in the Dominican Republic and else where in Latin American continue to by looked on by American cultural lenses. More importantly, why are those of mixed lineage are constantly reduced to props and commodities to booster up the number of Black people in Latin America? Really, has there been no honest attempt to explain race and ethnic identity without given in the vestiges of American P.C. and Americancentric (made up word, I know) thought? Why are Afro-Americans, Afro-Latinos, and potentially mixed-race people who consign the one-drop rule, are always appeased at the expense of others who do not share this mentality regarding race and identity?

Seriously, I'm getting sick of this Black and White divide in part of the world where, again, race, ethnicity, and identity is more complicated than "not wanting to deal with Blackness".Kzp1990 (talk) 18:55, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oh look, some great contradictions we have here:

"Afro-Dominicans are the majority in the country"

"So, the Afro-Dominican are 8,475,600 people in the Dominican Republic" (after adding the percentages of mixed-race people and Afro-Dominicans)

"(the majority of Dominicans are mulattos)"Kzp1990 (talk) 19:09, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]