Many Filipino-Americans would love to ignore that they owe blacks big time for their place in America. Y'all would love to believe white America just respect you so much that they want you here and not that there were laws put into place that made it illegal to discriminate against you. Those very laws that were stamped and seal by black sweat and blood. Stop with this goofy shjt, because many of you migrated from some of the worst part of Philippines, far worse than the worst part of Africa.
Stop pretending like you are better than blacks, because you are far from it. Even your national sport is basketball; I remember hearing how some of these players spoke of being treated like a god in the Philippines. My Filipino brethren used to tell me that Kobe is like a god there. People can have their own opinion, but the fact that many of you on this forum seem to go harder than the white dudes here just makes it seems fake and pretentious; no one respects a kiss@ss. That is some beta shjt.
Here is one of your own on Psychology today telling it like it is.
Stop pretending like you are better than blacks, because you are far from it. Even your national sport is basketball; I remember hearing how some of these players spoke of being treated like a god in the Philippines. My Filipino brethren used to tell me that Kobe is like a god there. People can have their own opinion, but the fact that many of you on this forum seem to go harder than the white dudes here just makes it seems fake and pretentious; no one respects a kiss@ss. That is some beta shjt.
Here is one of your own on Psychology today telling it like it is.
Historical Connections Between African Americans and Filipin@s
As Filipin@s�as peoples of color�in these United States, we need to acknowledge that we owe plenty of the freedoms and privileges that we enjoy today to the struggles, leadership, and activism of African Americans. To support this point, it is easy to simply refer to the obvious truth that a large reason for why Filipin@ Americans are able to live the life we have today as peoples of color in this country is because of the work of our Black brothers and sisters that led to the victories of the civil rights movement.
However, I believe that Filipin@s?appreciation of Black contributions to this country�historically and contemporarily�need to go beyond the civil rights movement. This is because the connections between African Americans and Filipin@s go way deeper and farther than this. Such a meaningful connection between African Americans and Filipin@s has been largely unseen and unheard, and it has to be told.
For example, not very many people know that thousands of African American male soldiers who were stationed in U.S. military bases in the Philippines until 1991 fathered children with Filipina women. Indeed, an estimated 25% of the approximately 52,000 �Amerasians��mixed-race children of American soldiers with Filipinas�have African American fathers. The U.S. Congress passed a law that allowed Amerasian children born in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos to immigrate to the U.S., but this law did not apply to Amerasians in the Philippines. So the only pathway for Filipin@ Amerasians to become citizens, even though they should have already been automatically considered as U.S. citizens given that their fathers are U.S. citizens, is if their fathers file paternity claims before they turn 18 years old. But because the U.S. military bases in the Philippines closed 25 years ago when the U.S. soldiers hurriedly left, most of the children today are already too old to claim citizenship or to be claimed by their fathers. In other words, there are approximately 13,000 mixed-race Filipin@-African American individuals in the Philippines today who have been abandoned and whose rights as Americans are not recognized!
As Filipin@s�as peoples of color�in these United States, we need to acknowledge that we owe plenty of the freedoms and privileges that we enjoy today to the struggles, leadership, and activism of African Americans. To support this point, it is easy to simply refer to the obvious truth that a large reason for why Filipin@ Americans are able to live the life we have today as peoples of color in this country is because of the work of our Black brothers and sisters that led to the victories of the civil rights movement.
However, I believe that Filipin@s?appreciation of Black contributions to this country�historically and contemporarily�need to go beyond the civil rights movement. This is because the connections between African Americans and Filipin@s go way deeper and farther than this. Such a meaningful connection between African Americans and Filipin@s has been largely unseen and unheard, and it has to be told.
For example, not very many people know that thousands of African American male soldiers who were stationed in U.S. military bases in the Philippines until 1991 fathered children with Filipina women. Indeed, an estimated 25% of the approximately 52,000 �Amerasians��mixed-race children of American soldiers with Filipinas�have African American fathers. The U.S. Congress passed a law that allowed Amerasian children born in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos to immigrate to the U.S., but this law did not apply to Amerasians in the Philippines. So the only pathway for Filipin@ Amerasians to become citizens, even though they should have already been automatically considered as U.S. citizens given that their fathers are U.S. citizens, is if their fathers file paternity claims before they turn 18 years old. But because the U.S. military bases in the Philippines closed 25 years ago when the U.S. soldiers hurriedly left, most of the children today are already too old to claim citizenship or to be claimed by their fathers. In other words, there are approximately 13,000 mixed-race Filipin@-African American individuals in the Philippines today who have been abandoned and whose rights as Americans are not recognized!
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