TuPapaupa previously said:

La Praia, the one on Lopez De Vega, right?.

You really don't want to know the tongue lashing (pela de lengua) que le di a un manager there for treating a black friend of mine as if he was a piece of gargage.

I must say I had fun with that imbecile.

dreadlocks previously said:

USADR, thanks for a well reasoned, even handed response. after reading the verbiage emanating from the miniscule brains of vacanos and Gizmo (if one could accuse them of having brains), it is refreshing to see sane responses from you and the poster before. try reading this article, in order to get some idea of what people see;

http://www.nathanielturner.com/kiiniiburasalaam2.htm

and, trust me, this is not the first time i have heard these things

Lautaro previously said:



The one and the same, Papaupa. There was an incident in 2006 in which a college student was killed when trying to enter to that place with a group of her friends. Apparently, one of the bouncers didn't take too kindly to one of the students' provoking gestures and opened fire on the group. The place was threatened to be closed by the courts, but the case would only end up in that, a simple threat, cuz' the owner is the son of one the big fish from the balaguerist era, and from whom I have heard have a lot of our politicos' dirty secrets under his sleeve, so no one on his right mind would dare to touch him.

USADR previously said:


Lautaro,
Carefull with taking that story at face value. I do not question her experience, but I as well as many others have questioned her conclusion. This includes non-Dominican people.Just do a search on Frank Sweets site and you'll read why.

dreadlocks previously said:

here is the deal, yumnuk. i have met numerous african american tourists who have told me that they were on their first visit to the DR, and that they would never return. why? because, they said, of the way they were treated by Dominicans. they observed that the locals fawned over the whites, while treating them like trash. i am not in a position to determine whether or not they were being overly sensitive, or overreacting. but i know for a fact that if i am in a line at the colmado, the owner will seek to put the white customers ahead of me. on one occasion, he even ordered the cashier to cancel my transaction, put my stuff to the side, and attend to the canadian lady who was behind me. in his mind, that is the pecking order. the white lady is first, and you are next. that , my friends, is the definition of racism. when i sit at a table with my white friends for dinner, the waitresses invariably try to hand the bill to one of them, but never to me. reflexively, they believe that they are the ones in the position to pay. it happens all the time. my white friends liked to eat at a certain steakhouse in the capital. the waiters treated them like kings when they went alone. when i went along, they would sit us at the worst table over by the kitchen, even if there was nobody else there. i stopped going to such places with them, just so they would not have to be inconvenienced like that. so, all who try to tell me that the DR does not have serious racial problems that need addressing, you are talking to the wrong guy. i have seen dark skinned Dominicans allow a white person to cut in front of them in a line at the bank, and they allowed it with a smile. i wonder if they would have been that pleasant and permissive had it been a person ten shades darker?