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The question of race still poisons the self-image of many of the noblest hearts, dividing people around the globe. This story, told with honesty and courage, is testament that this curse is also very much alive in the Dominican Republic—a wonderful nation which shares Hispaniola with proud, long-tormented Haiti —the first European island foothold in what the white invaders still did not fully understand as the new enormous continent of the Americas. While colonialist conquests by the Japanese in Asia brought the virus of rabid national chauvinism at he edge of the sword, it was the Europeans who introduced the natives of the Americas (and Africa itself) to the concept of racism simply on the basis of skin color, and historico-cultural uneven rates of technological development. That torment continues to collect victims in almost all lands where the "white settler" way of life and its cruel institutions still reign supreme.—PG Mar 3, 2016 (First publication)
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