Anti-Haitian sentiment in the Dominican Republic

They're going to get the baseball player to bleach their skin and all of that.

Is all this grounded in the fact that it's sort of anti-Haitian if they think you're dark-skinned, that you're probably Haitian, has some Haitian roots? Is this why not all the DR folks are like that, but some of them are really, you know, they'll say they're Spanish first.

They won't even say that they're black if they're Dominican.

They say first they're Spanish first.

Is this rooted in some anti-Haitian belief on that side of the Hispaniola Island? Your thoughts.

Well, I believe that that is from the time that Haiti occupied the whole land and that they can't get rid of that.

They don't want to admit that.

It's an important, it is an important factor that needs to be addressed.

I think that we saw it during the election, right? about the anti-Haitianism and the anti-Blackism.

And that was rejected by the community.

Well, you know, it was a close race, right? 2,000 votes separated the candidates.