Great story, well crafted, excellent actors. The set design, costumes, color, grain, and sound design were all well done. The history of the US and the Philippines is tragic, and it breaks my heart that we still exploit that country while we play The Great Game. It's important to remember history and confront current events honestly.
So much to learn from the past! Still the hate continues with people who we have been programmed to believe they are lower than white man. When will we learn we are all the same, all connected to each other ? My heart & soul dream of this day! What I’m seeing in the US now, fills me with much doubt that we ever will. 😢
And the Philippines recently allowed Uncle Sam another 3 military bases in their country. If only they knew their history they would have passed on this. Learning from history is not a great human trait.
I was raised in West Texas, in the 60's. West Texas had a high percentage of Mexicans, in 1960, in America, mexicans and asians were in the 1% population category, white were 90%, black 9%. But in my rural area, SW of Lubbock, mexicans were maybe 15% of the population. In my small town, you did not walk the downtown streets at night, if you were under 14 or so, mexican gangs beat the hell out of white boys. At school, going to the bathroom at break was always a challenge for most white boys in Jr. High, always a couple of 16 year old mexican bullies that loved to beat on small white boys. I was lucky, I was large and learned how to fight - in the bathrooms. Soon, very soon, hyperinflation will destroy the American economy, and when it does, so goes the god of striving to make money, and when that god dies, and social turmoil is normal, the war uniform we wear will be the color of ones skin. It has been a long time coming.
I'd not heard of this, and it appears there's a reason. This overstates the Watsonville 5 day riot in 1930 as something akin to Tulsa violence. Looks like pinoy, Fermin Tobera, was killed, and not much more (far less than Westerners by Moro or later NPA). Seems many did in CA wanted Filipinos out of the US, but that is mirrored in the PI. The end-of-film statement that the US granted PI independence in order to 'rid the US' of Filipinos ignores other more dominant reasons, and that the majority of the US had scant exposure to, or economic impact from, Filipinos. It is about as specious as a Japanese revisionist claim posted last week that Japan fought WWII to free Asia, and that 1946 PI independence was won for them by the benevolent Japanese (ignoring the rape/murder orgy in Manila, of course). Or that the post-WWII PI government was only a US puppet. There is but a germ of plausibility in each claim for the activists to work on unthinking masses.
History Is A Weapon "Comments on the Moro Massacre" by Samuel Clemens (March 12, 1906) This incident burn upon the world last Friday in an official cablegram from the commander of our forces in the Philippines to our Government at Washington. The substance of it was as follows: A tribe of Moros, dark-skinned savages, had fortified themselves in the bowl of an extinct crater not many miles from Jolo; and as they were hostiles, and bitter against us because we have been trying for eight years to take their liberties away from them, their presence in that position was a menace. Our commander, Gen. Leonard Wood, ordered a reconnaissance. It was found that the Moros numbered six hundred, counting women and children; that their crater bowl was in the summit of a peak or mountain twenty-two hundred feet above sea level, and very difficult of access for Christian troops and artillery. Then General Wood ordered a surprise, and went along himself to see the order carried out. Our troops climbed the heights by devious and difficult trails, and even took some artillery with them. The kind of artillery is not specified, but in one place it was hoisted up a sharp acclivity by tackle a distance of some three hundred feet. Arrived at the rim of the crater, the battle began. Our soldiers numbered five hundred and forty. They were assisted by auxiliaries consisting of a detachment of native constabulary in our pay-their numbers not given-and by a naval detachment, whose numbers are not stated. But apparently the contending parties were about equal as to number- six hundred men on our side, on the edge of the bowl; six hundred men, women and children in the bottom of the bowl. Depth of the bowl, 50 feet. Gen. Wood's order was, "Kill or capture the six hundred." The battle began-it is officially called by that name-our forces firing down into the crater with their artillery and their deadly small arms of precision; the savages furiously returning the fire, probably with brickbats-though this is merely a surmise of mine, as the weapons used by the savages are not nominated in the cablegram. Heretofore the Moros have used knives and clubs mainly; also ineffectual trade-muskets when they had any. The official report stated that the battle was fought with prodigious energy on both sides during a day and a half, and that it ended with a complete victory for the American arms. The completeness of the victory is established by this fact: that of the six hundred Moros not one was left alive. The brilliancy of the victory is established by this other fact, to wit: that of our six hundred heroes only fifteen lost their lives.
A fascinating story. One which seems to repeat. The US finally had to purchase the Philippines from the Japanese in 1945 so they could export the Filipinos back to their homeland. This helped with the riots and killings in California. Would we likewise have a few immigration problems with the Hispanics if the US purchased Mexico?
Are you serious......."The US finally had to *purchase* the Philippines from the Japanese in 1945"? And you actually believe the reason was so the US could....."export the Filipinos back to their homeland"? Good grief.
He did not deserve to be assulted like that. He has a right to his own thoughts and oppinion concerning "Anything". Now whom ever threw the chair needs to be punished.
The lack of self-awareness from the clan mentality in this country is remarkable Excellent short film, awaiting the full version. Of course like other commenters I knew nothing of this content, but on a side note when Japanese Hawaiian Americans were interned from Hawaii in California fights broke out amongst them in the illegal incarceration facilities, the nickname for a California Japanese-American was katonk in Hawaiian pidgin, that was the sound that their head made after a Hawaiian Japanese-American knocked them out, I moved to Hawaii in high school in 78 and experienced racism for the first time from locals, I recall something about why can't we all just get along?
But it is so much worse than this portrays. If you want to see another portrait of American hate, look up the murder of James Byrd jr. in Jasper Texas in 1998. And don't you remember the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville NC in 2018? Racist hate goes all the way back to the beginning of American history. The day the Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock Mass, they brought racist hate with them from merry old England. To this day that hate has not subsided. Half of America is republican. Racist hate is the core principle of the republican party.
Nothing ever changes because the whole world lies in the power of the wicked one. 1 John 5:19. Men beguile themselves that they are in control but it is the manslayer John 8:44 Only by reliance on God and belief in Jesus Christ can anyone be saved. Don't fear man; fear of God is the beginning of wisdom Prov 9:10
Something else not taught in US history classes when I went through public school, graduating in 1975. Nowadays, if an American teacher in Texas or Florida mentioned this no doubt their Governors would try to have their employment terminated because Caucasian students ´ parents might be offended.
Im glad America isn’t racist anymore and now everyone has an equal opportunity, so that means no more violence and protests… oh wait they are still people complaining about their equalities?
We Americans are more racist than ever before in history. I am so ashamed of my country.
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As a military brat, we met so many people of different races and cultures and became close friends with so many. As a kid, I never thought about being different from other people and I never thought they were different from me.
I went to school in California. I still have my 2nd grade class picture. We were a Heinz 57 group. A little bit of every culture. We all played together. I also had a good friend from the Navajo Tribe in Arizona. Her Grandma was a neighbor and she would come up to California to stay with her Grandma. Her Grandma taught us how to make homemade tortillas. They were the best.
I’m 65 years old , went to school in Oregon , I’ve never heard of this until now and I find embarrassing . Both that I never knew and that it happened at all . My last 2 years of high school were in Virginia , we had our own problems with the African Americans in ‘75 - ‘76 and my best friend was Filipino , I never knew . It’s all rather embarrassing now . I can’t believe we treat other humans like that , will we ever learn ?
United States also committed atrocities in the Philippines. Check out the Philippine American war. They first joined with Filipinos with the promise of freeing them from the Spanish domination, and that they would be independent after they defeated Spain. Instead they defeated Spain and then the U.S. started attacking the Filipinos, starting another war to actually take control of the country instead of leaving them as an independent country. The United States are built over atrocities, wars and crimes against humanity. The most disgusting country on earth.
