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GibbsMeedat ago

After they fucked up their own country a lot of Haitians moved to the Dominican Republic. Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo had thousands of them killed in the 1930s, but many survived.

The Dominican supreme court recently ruled that if they couldn't prove they were Dominican they would be sent back to Haiti.

I think you folks might enjoy this bit from a white Dominican:

Some see Haitians and Dominicans as fundamentally different types of people. Carlos González, a 25-year-old resident of Santo Domingo who runs a gas-supply company, says that while he has several Haitian friends, he doesn’t fully trust them.

“I’m not racist, I don’t discriminate,” González told The WorldPost. “I have lots of Haitian friends, including undocumented ones whom I’ve helped to get their papers in order. I can go to their homes, spend time with them. But I can’t completely trust them, because you help a Haitian today and he hurts you later. It’s in their blood.”

sound familiar?