wavesoftware:Dominican Journalists Claim Death Threats For Covering Citizenship DebateFour journalis
wavesoftware:Dominican Journalists Claim Death Threats For Covering Citizenship DebateFour journalists in the Dominican Republic say they have been threatened for covering their country’s increasingly contentious citizenship and immigration debate and accuse an outspoken nationalist of calling for their deaths.The journalists filed a lawsuit this month alleging Dominican nationalist Luis Díaz fomented the threats at a public protest. The reporters also demanded that the government address the growing trend of protesters calling for “death to traitors” during demonstrations advocating the expulsion of undocumented Haitian migrants.One of the journalists, Juan Bolívar Díaz, said the reporters have been threatened while at the supermarket and while driving through Santo Domingo. Bolívar Díaz, who has been reporting for four decades in print and television, said he and three colleagues have been targeted for denouncing hostility toward Dominicans of Haitian descent and the country’s widespread repugnance against Haitian migrants.“There are sectors and groups that are trafficking in nationalist sentiment,” Bolívar Díaz told The Huffington Post. “There’s racism and a historic anti-Haitianism in this country, so these people want to silence the media who are defending human rights… Some people promote a veritable apartheid.”Dominican officials opened an investigation and interrogated Díaz, the nationalist accused in the lawsuit, last week. He was released without charges, according to news reports, though the case remains open. Outside the interrogation, dozens of protesters chanted slogans, including, “We are all Luis,” and “Death to the traitors.”Antiblack Dominican nationalists are literally showing their faces right now. Dominican nationalists crying “death to traitors” to the reporters doing their jobs bringing attention to what these racist antiblack dogs are up to is a clear example showing how many key members of Dominican government, media and other Dominican institutions are working hard still to erase Blackness from the island and I’m not fucking here for this shit.I’m telling ya’ll this is a Black issue, they need some bullshit reason to be antiblack and immigration is their answer. This anti-haitian sentiment is the thin veil these racist antiblack Dominicans use to cover that antiblackness. Why else would they “mistakenly” deport Black Dominicans they “confused” for Haitian and how many times did that shit happen and end in a misidentification because we aint that different!?This isn’t just about nationalism and upholding some fake ass security to protect what these gov’ officials hardly even take care of since they make away with most the money ol corrupt fuck heads, this is about feeling justified and right in yet another antiblack crusade. It happened before, it’s repeating now. -- source link