Exactly people who say this don't know what they are talking about. They are exactly the same except DR went through more whitening later on. There's plenty of lightskinned haitians, I should know because I'm one of them. We have a native american burial site on our land over there too. There is no difference except that Trujillo invited a bunch of germans to come live in DR so he can make the population "less dark".
Me too ! People see me and think I'm puerto rican. People think my pops is cuban or even indian. I've heard people say my my mom looks like lena horne or straight up white. We come in all shades. People assume that all haitians are "dark as night" (as i've heard several times) but they dont realize that most of the lighter population were either slaughtered or fled the country during the papa doc days.
You are too stupid to make a distinction which the rest of the world does except black Americans.
pleading and crying for these people to acknowledge their blackness. You'd figure if they were that bad, people would just leave them alone instead of attempting to brow beat them into blackness. Validation and inferiority complexes are real.

Anything to not be classified as "black"..Here they are brow beating Dominicans but completely ignoring their obvious self hatred.
..Unless they are the mulatto elite that represent the government and media, most of Haitians are dark.