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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Brada-Anansi: [qb] The history that Doug presented is a hellaova lot more interesting than comparing phenotype for one African Americans took part in that conflict and yes they were the famed Buffalo soldiers some defected because of the raw anti black racism meted out against the Filipino populous who they equate with blacks of whatever origins. [IMG]http://api.ning.com/files/BVwTq1aUUuJ-AfV0BXgh-emijQ87l2agZboqUdW7kxbxn0SGQRHkQDaI2qV29OnTwlZ4iImk-MCsmg52PsQdVmjFdpYLcctZ/fagen_david.jpg[/IMG] [b]Captain David Fagen[/b] [QUOTE] Within the organization of the "World Serrada Escrima Federation" there is a special division set aside that is strictly devoted to historical research within the field of combative martial arts. The following story centers around an almost untold story about one of the most celebrated "African/American" soldiers who fought on the side of the courageous Filipino revolutionaries during the American occupation in the Philippines. "General Fagen" as many of his loyal Filipino troops called him, was one of the most effective & one of the most masterful African American jungle guerrilla warfare fighter's & military strategist that had ever set foot on Filipino soil. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE]The densely forested area around the Rio de la Pampanga River was a scene of great bloodshed. Dozens of Filipinos lay dead, massacred by the advancing US forces. It was August 1899, when Filipino Insurrectos under Gen. Maximino Hizon were making a futile stand against the vastly superior American army. In a few weeks, Hizon would be captured. He would be replaced by another Pampango general, Jose Alejandrino. Alejandrino would regroup his almost decimated forces and head toward Mount Arayat, for another bloody confrontation with the Americans. In the lull of battle, Alejandrino meets a “Black” American defector, Cpl. David Fagen. A highly skilled guerrilla fighter (he was a veteran in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898), Fagen would raise havoc with his former comrades in the US army. For the next two years, his actions would give hope to the losing “Filipino cause.” [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] An incredible story? Yes. And it all happened during the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902. Fagen was one of the 7,000 “Black American” soldiers sent to the Philippines to secure the islands for the United States. Originally called “Buffalo Soldiers,” a monicker given by the American-Indians because of their combat prowess and bravery, four regiments of “Black American” soldiers were sent: the 9th and 10th cavalry, and the 23rd and 24th infantry regiments. Fagen belonged to the 24th. In June 1899, Fagen’s regiment was sent to Central Luzon to fight the Insurrectos. During the course of the battle, two factors would change Fagen’s perspective of the war. First, his constant quarrel with his superiors. Second, [b]the “racist” manner in which the Americans conducted the war, oftentimes calling Filipino soldiers racial slurs like “niggers,” “black devils” and “gugus.”[/b] On Nov. 17, 1899, Fagen defected to the side of the Insurrectos. On Sept. 6, 1900, he was promoted from corporal to captain by his commanding officer, General Alejandrino. “Captain Fagen” would clash with the American army at least eight times, from Aug. 30, 1900 to Jan. 12, 1901 (twice against Frederick Funston, the fabled general who captured Aguinaldo). His most famous action was the daring capture of an American steam launch on the Rio Grande de la Pampanga River. Along with 150 of his men, Fagen seized its cargo of guns and disappeared swiftly into the dense forest before American reinforcements could arrive. It was after this episode that he was referred to as “General Fagen” by the New York Times. [/QUOTE] http://www.myfma.net/forum/topics/david-fagen-a-black-american?commentId=3158179%3AComment%3A66880&xg_source=activity . [/qb][/QUOTE]Thanks Brada. A lot of people in Asia and elsewhere have bought into the lies and propaganda of white racists wholesale and this is why you see the attitudes you see today towards the facts. Some claim the original Filipinos were "non black" aboriginals from South China but all of this contradicts the written accounts and pictorial evidence from just 100 years ago, not to mention the accounts of Magellan of the "black armies" swarming down to meet him in the Islands. But that is because the population today has had 100 years of American racism taught to them (starting the racist William McKinley). They have been taught in American built schools and indoctrinated to believe in the lies of the conqueror to the point where they have the same mindset of the conqueror and insult themselves and their own history in the process. That is how you can have a T.V. program called Nita Negrita with a girl in black face playing a mixed African American/Filipino person facing ridicule from her classmates..... And there is also a history of Sino-assimilation as well where everything south Asian gets portrayed as Chinese in origin when it isn't primarily because of the wealth and power of the Chinese in most South Asian populations. Some vids of the so called "non black" original Filipinos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUfsIbxsO94 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eJgIhns62I [QUOTE] Abe Ignacio said he couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the century-old illustration for sale on eBay. The cover of an 1899 issue of Judge magazine shows President William McKinley scrubbing a Filipino child saying, "Oh, you dirty boy!" The caption reads: "The Filipino's First Bath." Ignacio of San Leandro bought the rare image and others from the era that are now part of a Berkeley exhibit of depictions of Filipinos in mainstream media -- as savages to be civilized by the United States as part of the colonization of the Philippines. "It's revisiting a terrible period that most historians have ignored," said Ignacio, who works as a Federal Express driver and has collected about 400 images from that period since the late 1980s. "It's important to show that there was a very ugly side to America's rise as a world power." "Colored: Black n' White," at exhibit at Pusod, a community arts and environmental center, includes drawings, editorial cartoons, photos and news clips from prominent magazines and newspapers that covered the U.S. annexation of the Philippines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was put together by Ignacio, his wife, Helen Toribio, who is a college instructor, and Jorge Emmanuel, an environmental scientist. The Philippines had declared its independence from Spain in 1898 when the archipelago was ceded to the United States for $20 million. Filipino revolutionaries rejected the U.S. colonial regime, but their resistance was suppressed in a bloody war of conquest that claimed at least 250,000 lives, mostly Filipino civilians. To justify the use of military force in the Philippines, many pro- annexation politicians, writers and artists portrayed the Filipinos as primitive, childlike and incapable of governing themselves. [/QUOTE]Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Images-of-racism-How-19th-century-U-S-media-2898040.php#ixzz2PDZEju5g [/QB][/QUOTE]
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