It racked up more than 20 million views in a week, and prompted swift retribution. Larkins was fired from his investment bank, and Alexander, the chief executive of a skin care company, lost a major distributor. Alexander sent a statement to NBC News that issues an apology to Juanillo and says "The last 48 hours has taught me that my actions were those of someone who is not aware of the damage caused by being ignorant and naive to racial inequalities.
The May 25 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police has sparked a nationwide reckoning with the history of institutional racism. The same day that Floyd was killed, Christian Cooper, a Black bird-watcher in Central Park, filmed Amy Cooper , a white woman calling the cops on him, falsely and hysterically claiming that he was threatening her.
Juanillo says his own run-in with the white couple revealed different layers of racial biases and how they reinforce one another. Nobody says anything and no one speaks on their behalf," said Williams, who also conducts workshops and interventions to reduce racism.
At the turn of the 20th century, the first Filipinos were recruited to join the US Navy as stewards — the racialized lowest rank, into which no white Americans were recruited.
However, such appropriation of the discourse of enslavement to refer to the experience of Filipinos on the US ships needs to be critically assessed to consider how the US imperial advance in the Pacific not only produced new oppressions, but also stirred anti-Black sentiments among the newly colonized peoples, such as Filipinos.
Below, I raise 3 points related to Filipino participation in the US Navy that could be used to reflect on anti-Black discourse. Black lives should matter to Filipinos. We need to confront our willful ignorance in perpetuating anti-Blackness that denies humanity to fellow people of color. First, it is critical to point out that the segregated steward rank in the US Navy initially recruited predominantly Black people. Historian John Darrell Sherwood writes that post-emancipation, steward rank wages were so low that they could attract only Black people who were purposely left with very few viable occupation choices.
In , two years before US naval ships arrived in the Philippines, ships were officially made segregated read more here. This shows us how empires have historically capitalized on racialized labor. This, however, was due only to lack of opportunity. Third, examining the relationships between different groups of people of color in the context of empire exposes the historical production of ambiguous attitudes of oppressed populations towards each other. We particularly recognize that experiences with law enforcement and the legal system have been fraught with racial discrimination and struggle, and we stand in solidarity with the Black community.
The history of the Filipinx community and the Black community in the US is intertwined and we share common threads in the continued struggle for freedom, dignity, and equality. It is important to recognize our community is composed of many multiracial Black-Filipino families.
Their families are now in their 9th generation. Filipinos were fighting against United States colonialism and for their independence.
Within the Black American community, there was considerable opposition to intervention in the Philippines. Many Black newspaper articles and leaders supported the idea of Philippine independence and felt that it was wrong for the United States to subjugate non-whites in the development of what was perceived to be the beginnings of a colonial empire. Among them were Ida B. Wells and Bishop Henry M.
As the often forgotten and never-talked-about war between the Philippines and the US from progressed, many Black soldiers increasingly felt they were being used in an unjust racial war.
They sympathized with the Filipinos who were fighting to keep their sovereignty and independence. As Filipino scholar Luzviminda Francisco writes:. The Americans were contemptuous of Filipinos generally and they had little respect for the fighting ability of the Philippine Army. The Americans were elated by their initial success and their commander, the rather wooden and unimaginative Gen. Elwell Otis, confidently predicted that the war would be ended in a matter of weeks.
Otis had convinced himself that the opposition to U. This theme, which was trotted out by domestic U. The Filipino freedom fighters recruited Black soldiers encouraging them to defect and desert their US military positions.
At the same time, the US government sought to establish a system of government and education that mimicked its own. In , a group of teachers from the US went to the Philippines to establish a formal educational system. One of the supervisors was Carter G.
0コメント