Mission/purpose:
Dominicans Love Haitians Movement is using various art modalities to reflect and reconcile with over 500 years of Eurocentrism. It is exhuming mythological injustices designed and instituted by colonialism, dictators, and plutocrats to instill fear, prejudice and oppression. Using art as a vehicle for unraveling biases and bigotry; healing wounds instituted by racial stigmas and by creating spaces to manifest the possibility of and the ability to witness violent acts without deflection, amnesia, or suppression and voicing those acts so they no longer hold power or designate who we are as human beings.
Philosophy:
The visions of Dominicans Love Haitians Movement is to bring these complex, dissonant, historically significant experiences to the forefront through participatory art and facilitation to formulate dialogues, reflections and restore compassion and healing to create a future from unimagined places and bring communion to the island of Kiskeya Ayiti.
The project challenges current thinking with respect to how Dominicans view history. It utilizes language in shifting the current sociological framework of oppression. The name of the organization in and of itself challenges the thinking that love can exist between two nations because of elite and government machinations insisting our nations are at odds with each other since the 1700s. It is imperative to dismantle the myths of “race” that have been instituted and internalized as hard-core values, truths and beliefs that continue to perpetuate hate and separate people be creating “others” who are subsequently used as scapegoats and seen as less than human.
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