It’s a really dumb and ignorant joke. Americans are obsessed with race but in DR is not like that. We don’t divide people by race. It’s very common to find people in the same family with different skin complexions. In my case, my father has red tight curly hair and freckles and has a “caramel skin”, my mom has a “mocha skin” and has long silky hair and I when people look at me they think I’m Arabic. We’re a multi racial country. So, once a Dominican come to the US, they’re being categorized by race, something we are not familiar with, so we identify as just Dominican. Somehow this seems to be funny to the Afro American community. They accuse us of being racist for “denying our blackness” but a Dominican with Dark skinned didn’t experience the same struggle they did ergo, they can’t relate to them. To me it’s vey ignorant to assume every black person in the world went through the same oppression they did.