A lot of black Dominicans have internalized anti-blackness and thus they say things like "I am not black, I am Dominican" but they are in-fact black.
Black is color though. John Henrik Clarke, black history month fact, even he says "black" people should stop calling ourselves black...because black is a color. So, don't be salty if people dont be salty because people dont want to be settle for being a label colored - they want to be labeled based on where they are from, as it should be.