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Why do you think they asked if we are racist? Because they didn't think so from all the nice Kanos they've met, like me. :) I was just forthright about it. We are racist, the troops were racist when we first got to the Philippines. Rudyard Kipling's poem White Man's Burden is about the Philippine American War. The one's I know aren't dumb either and know more about the Roman Empire than I do. - Lapsody
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The Philippine–American War, known alternatively as the Philippine Insurrection, Filipino–American War, or Tagalog Insurgency, was fought between the First Philippine Republic and the United States from February 4, 1899, until July 2, 1902
Philippine American War? So you go back 120 years to justify your current position that the USA is still just as racist as 1902. You give no acknowledgement to the progress made in of the last hundred years. Sure racism still exists, but nothing like slavery or the Jim Crow era, or the pre-Civil Rights movement. You should explain to your Philippine friends that we aren't as bad as you allow them to assume we are. Or maybe in your opinion, we still are a bunch of racists with our foot on the neck of POC. I would agree with you but then we would both be wrong. <g>
