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Thread: Filipinos don't need the fact of the Buffalo Soldiers and David Fagan to actively fight anti-black racism. What you need is a conscience #blacklivesmatter
This history doesn't teach us about our debt to African Americans per se. It teaches us about mutual enmity—constructed by the simultaneity of Jim Crow & imperialism. It teaches us, too, how we might regard one another—mutual seeing. That's the real lesson
Black soldiers took an oath essentially to fight (and kill) Filipinos on behalf of US nationmaking & empire. If you read the Black press of the time, African Americans wanted to colonize the Philippines themselves. At best, Black Americans were ambivalent about their involvement
