Tawagin ba naman tayong "barbaro" at "savages" nina William McKinley at Theodore Roosevelt noong panahon ng Digmaang Pilipino-Amerikano?
Rasismo. Kasinungalingan. Para sa Imperyalismo.
Kapal ng kalyo ng kaluluwa ng Pamahalaang Estados Unidos. Para bigyang katwiran ang kanilang pananakop sa Pilipinas/Taga-Ilog at pagpatay sa daang libo nating ating mga kawal at bayani.
Imperialist American President Theodore Roosevelt, in his May 4, 1902 speech at Arlington Cemetery, cast the Philippine-American War (1899-1902) as a race war: [Upon this] “small but peculiarly trying and difficult war” turned “not only the honor of the flag [but] “the triumph of civilization over forces which stand for the black chaos of savagery and barbarism."
"Roosevelt acknowledged and expressed regret for U.S. abuses but claimed that for every American atrocity,' "a very cruel and very treacherous enemy". had committed '"a hundred acts of far greater atrocity."'
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"On February 4, 1899, the United States went to war based on a false claim that Filipinos began attacking American soldiers in Manila. The first shots were actually fired by an American soldier as Filipinos crossed a bridge, and historians......... would later discover a "prearranged plan" by the U.S. military to precipitate a war as soon as an incident was provoked. Misled by false reports, the Senate passed (by one vote) a treaty to annex the Philippines. President McKinley would later justify the war by claiming that God had counseled him to take the Philippines in order to civilize and Christianize the Filipinos. What was really behind the annexation was the need for overseas markets and raw materials for American industry."
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oho, dr. zeus. right, hill, as ka ming said, "katagalugan" is just a label but it's an important label meaning our NATION. instead of saying "philippines" which is really a colonial name (also colonial.based institutions).
ReplyDeleteas bonifacio, jac...into, and sakay envisioned (which even aguinaldo's secretary Carlos V. Ronquillo attested to), Katagalugan meant the ENTIRE archipelago. they didn't want nga a colonial name, so they chose a name that describes the archipelago--Riverine.
from Kartilla footnote:
(The word tagalog means all those born in this archipelago; therefore, though visayan, ilocano, pamapango, etc. they are all tagalogs.)
from Sakay:
(The villages and municipalities of this Filipinas are called Katagalugan Archipelago, which in effect, are the likes of Jolo, Mindanao, Visayas, Ilocos and all other different lands that are truly Tagalog.)
from ronquillo's memoirs:
(This is what the readers must understand: by what we refer to as tagalog, a term which may be found on almost every page of this account, we do not mean, as some believe, those who were born in Manila, Cavite and Balacan, etc. no, we wish to refer to the Philippines…because, in our opinion, this term should apply to all the children of the Filipino nation. Tagalog, or stated more clearly, the name “tagalog” has no other meaning but “tagailog” (from the river) which, traced directly to its root, refers to those who prefer to settle along rivers, truly a trait, it cannot be denied, of all those born in the Philippines, in whatever island or town.)
re katagalugan republic and our concept of nation, hill, this is from dr. zeus salazar's kasaysayan ng kapilipinuhan book/summary:
ReplyDelete"Si Andres Bonifacio naman ang bumuo sa isang himagsikan ng mga mamamayan.... pinalaganap niBonifacio ang kons...epto ng bayan. Ibang iba ito sa konsepto ng nación ng mga ilustrado. Ito ay
nakabatay sa pagbuo ng/kay Inang Bayan at pagtatag ng Haring Bayan (estadong bayan) para sabuong kapuluan (Republika ng Katagalugan)."
kaya rin siguro partly hindi sineryoso si aguinaldo at republika nito eh, ka tony eh. biruin mo ang pangalan ng bansa ay colonial pa rin?? ari pa nga rin ng malakas na bansa....
ReplyDeleteayaw niya sigurong gamitin ang 'katagalugan' kasi baka lang lag...ing maalala ng tao si boni.