Junot Diaz, Accused of Being "Anti Dominican," Speaks for People Like Me
As a Dominican-American, I am also appalled at the atrocities happening in my home country against Haitians immigrants and their descendants.
Note: I wrote this at the height of the massive deportations this past summer that activists like Junot Diaz and Edwidge Danticat have been opposing vocally.
My native country, the Dominican Republic, is in the process of expelling hundreds of thousands of people from the east side of the island it shares with Haiti to the west side. The government is herding them in buses and army trucks across what is commonly known as Massacre River, the same river where
