Black Denial in Dominican Republic (think race relations are bad here?)

[Herman Munster]

http://www.miamiherald.com/multimedia/news/afrolatin/part2/index.html

Asked if a black Dominican woman can be considered beautiful in her country, Hernández leapt to her feet.

"You should see how they come in here with their big asses!'' she said, shuffling across her office with her arms extended behind her back, simulating an enormous rear-end. "They come in here thinking they are all that, and I think, 'doesn't she know she's not really pretty?' "

Maria Elena Polanca is a black woman with the striking good looks. She said most Dominicans look at her with curiosity, as if a black woman being beautiful were something strange.

She spends her days promoting a hair straightener at La Sirena, a Santo Domingo department store that features an astonishing array of hair straightening products.

"Look, we have bad hair, bad. Nobody says 'curly.' It's bad," she said. "You can't go out like that. People will say, 'Look at that nest! Someone light a match!' ''

[Colobo]

1. I'm a black Puerto Rican, son of a Dominican mulatto who thinks

I'm black but he is not, makes racist jokes about African-Americans, black Puerto Ricans and Haitians, and hates to think that everyone around him sees him as a black man.

I know about Latin American racism because I have lived it.

[Colobo]

2. By the way, my dad calls himself "Indio claro" (Light skinned Indian)

[Colobo]

3. Kick!

[Colobo]

4. Kick again!