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Too Black to Be Dominican: The Olympic Medalist Derided as Too Foreign
Despite being born and raised in Bayaguana, in the Dominican Republic, Pie was immediately questioned on Dominican media and social media about his Spanish, his last name, and the fact that his father’s family came from Haiti. Pie dedicated his bronze medal to “the ten million Dominicans,” and waved a Dominican flag proudly in celebration, but his Haitian heritage meant, for some, that his allegiance to the country could not be trusted.
http://www.okayafrica.com/sports/too...s-too-foreign/
Despite being born and raised in Bayaguana, in the Dominican Republic, Pie was immediately questioned on Dominican media and social media about his Spanish, his last name, and the fact that his father’s family came from Haiti. Pie dedicated his bronze medal to “the ten million Dominicans,” and waved a Dominican flag proudly in celebration, but his Haitian heritage meant, for some, that his allegiance to the country could not be trusted.
http://www.okayafrica.com/sports/too...s-too-foreign/