“We gave the Philippines political freedom to enter the world family of nations, but did we give them internal political liberty? More important still, did we grant them economic freedom?"
– Harold L. Ickes, longest-tenured U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1933-1946)
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LET US NOT KEEP OUR HEADS IN THE SAND
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful." - Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965)
MY BIRTH COUNTRY: JULY 4th "GRANTED" INDEPENDENCE" FROM U.S. COLONIALISM AND ITS GLOSSED OVER/UNKNOWN PRICE. IS IGNORANCE BLISS?The Philippines, an American colony from 1899-1946, was formally given the promised independence on July 4, 1946, to coincide with U.S. Independence Day.
What were the price and trade-off paid by the native Filipinos-in-the-Philippines (Official American & Philippine history books do not address):
1. President Roxas Railroaded the Approval of the Bell Trade Act (aka Philippine Trade Act),1946 & Military Bases Agreements
2. Bell Trade Act 1946 or Parity Rights - History and Details
3. As colonized people, native Filipinos fought, died, and suffered so much during WW2 for America/U.S.A. The native Filipinos as soldiers/later as guerillas (about 250,000) against the Japanese were promised by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to be paid after the war; however, FDR died in 1944, and his successor/VP Harry Truman later rescinded the promise.
Even after the war, in October of 1945, Gen. Omar Bradley, then Administrator of the Veterans Administration, reaffirmed that they would be treated like any other American veteran. But on February 18, 1946, Congress passed and President Truman signed Public Law 70-301, known as the Rescission Act of 1946.
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“We gave the Philippines political freedom to enter the world family of nations, but did we give them internal political liberty? More important still, did we grant them economic freedom?"
– Harold L. Ickes, longest-tenured U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1933-1946)
THANKS TO AMERICAN COLONIALISM THEN AND POWERFUL MEDIA, WE NATIVE FILIPINOS, AS RULERS AND RULED ALIKE IN THE ISLANDS, HAVE BEEN CONTINUALLY BRAINWASHED AND NOT KNOW OR APPRECIATE HISTORY. FELLOW ASIANS IN THE REGION SEE US ESSENTIALLY AS NOT REALLY ASIANS BUT "BROWN AMERICANS" AND WE SEEM PROUD OF IT... THINKING WE ARE IN SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH AMERICA (lol). THAT'S ONLY WHAT WE ARE GOOD AT.
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