Angel Luis Joseph Dominican Baseball Racism

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A Haitian-Dominican Baseball player, Angel Luis Joseph, just lost a US$350,000 Baseball contract with the San Francisco Giants because he is the son of a Haitian sugar cane worker and the Dominican government refuse to give him a birth certificate in order to obtain a visa to the United States.

QUESTION: Can he travel to Haiti and get a birth certificate and play as Haitian?

This topic is also open for discussion in the following website:
dominicantravelblog.com/dominican-...

This type of Racism is called "AntiHaitianismo", Spanish for "anti-Haitianism", Antihaitianismo is a racist bias against Haitians and descendants of Haitians by Dominicans.

So strong is this sentiment in the Dominican Republic that a young man is being denied a future in the United States because of racism against Haitians.

One question that has been raised on Youtube is:

Can he travel to Haiti and get a birth certificate and play as Haitian?

Malanduye, a Youtube user thinks it is a simple matter but is it?

Here is one reply so far on youtube:

"I just read about this, I agree he can go to haiti to get a birth certificate, the contract will come up again.

But on the real the Dominicans need to get a hold of themselves with this racist BS." (clnmike/Youtube)

What do you think

Prevalhaiti.com, December 21 2008, 10:09 AM

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