thank you to linda martin alcoff . thank you to lacey schwartz.nk you to stacey patton senior enterprise reporter for the chronicle of higher education. a special shout out to morgan states radio station in baltimore. that is it for this discussion. i'm sure it will carry on on facebook and twitter. next, we speak with edwidge danticat a haitian-american writer who will talk about what is happening to people in the dominican republic. stay with us. ♪ amy: here on democracy now! i am amy. juan: the dominican republic is set to begin what some are calling "ethnic purging" placing the fate of hundreds of thousands of dominicans of haitian descent into limbo. half a million legally stateless people could be sent to haiti this week, including those who have never stepped foot in haiti and don't speak the language. in 2013, a dominican constitutional court ruling stripped the citizenship of children born to haitian immigrants in the dominican republic as far back as 1929, retroactively leaving tens of thousands without citizenship. this is dominican mig