They are stigmatizing an entire Haitian population.
This really is causing Dominicans to have a more negative idea of Haitians and therefore promotes racism across the country which could lead to violence against Haitians.
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Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat said it was “appalling” that the Dominican court has “chosen to commemorate the upcoming 76th anniversary of the October 1937 massacre of thousands of Haitians in the Dominican Republic by stripping Dominican-born men, women, and children of Haitian descent of their citizenship, rendering them not only stateless but unable to attend school or make a living while becoming even more vulnerable to all kinds of hostilities including, increasingly, physical violence.”
That's just disgusting.
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Haitian-descended residents
Now thats just racist. These people have no control over where their great grandmother moved how many years ago. i can understand wanting to limit immigration but these people have lived their whole lives in this country just to be ripped away.
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www.amnesty.org www.amnesty.org
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the Dominican authorities have yet to acknowledge that the problem of statelessness exists, let alone provide comprehensive and effective measures to prevent and end it.
The government is just perpetuating it instead of trying to help find a home for these people that literally have nowhere else to go.
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Dominicans of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic face a series of obstacles to the full enjoyment of their human rights to a nationality, to recognition as a person before the law and to identity.
It is their human right. It is inhumane to force these people onto the street with no nationality or even recognition as people. The saddest part is that the children had no say in where they were even born and now they have to live their lives in limbo.
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These changes in migration patterns started to be used by some nationalist groups to stoke a fear of a “peaceful invasion” of Haitians.
These innocent haitian people were just looking for a home and some work. This reminds me of whats going on today with Trump and immigrants.
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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People who are living under the delusion that their work is separate from their identity and experience are generally people who are benefiting from enormous amounts of structural privilege.
i remember at the beginning of the semester we talked about how people tend to identify with their minority group as opposed to a majority group. a white woman would identify herself as woman but wouldn't list white. So this statement says the same thing. If someone works with an enormous amount of privilege, its less likely they will identify with it.
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We’re building a crowdfunding platform to help queer and trans people raise money for prison-related costs — bail, bond, commissary.”
Trans and queer inmates are brutalized in the prison system and its amazing that they are doing this to not only bring awareness to the issue but also help them out.
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Being a queer woman is the air that I breathe
I deeply connect to this statement. I'm black, i'm queer and i'm a woman and that intersectionality makes me who i am.
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www.vogue.com www.vogue.com
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It was a three-tiered view of life: You’re already a foreigner in America. And now, among African Americans, you’re African, which is another strike against you. And even in your own family, you’re not the same—you’re starting to become more Americanized.
I myself have experienced this. I am born and raised Jamaican but after being here for so many years and losing my accent I feel "Americanized." My Mexican-American best friend was bullied for being Mexican in white neighborhoods and bullied for being white in Hispanic neighborhoods.
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in Nigeria homosexuality is illegal
Toyin created this piece knowing the anger it could cause, but that didn't affect her drive to continue to develop her story.
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From her extended-family saga, the bridegrooms in Newlyweds on Holiday (2016).
I loved that she decided to join these two identities together. Even thought homosexuality is illegal in Nigeria, she dared to create this storyline and portrait. The way she shows this gay Nigerian couple with such a sense of normalcy breaks down the stereotypes. She shows her activism through her art.
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