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I finally covered the Philippine-American War. I hope I did a sufficient job explaining it. 

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The War Your American History Teachers Probably Didn't Tell You About

Mr. Beat tells the story of the Philippine-American War. Here's an annotated script with footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N5OavAGT2qdg_37hX4HOi_EeHdg5vtrPpoelpfknIk4/edit?usp=sharing Produced by Matt Beat. All images and video by Matt Beat, used under fair use guidelines, or found in the public domain. Music by Cheel and Kwon. Sources/further reading: A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902 by David J. Silbey Purchase here: https://amzn.to/40K2oOd America and Its People by James Kirby Martin, Randy Roberts, and Steven Mintz Purchase here: https://amzn.to/3JUO2nh America’s History by James A. Henretta Purchase here: https://amzn.to/40N3DvR https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Secretary_Root%27s_Record:%22Marked_Severities%22_in_Philippine_Warfare https://history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmYesELO6axBrCuSpf7S9DQ/join For business inquiries or to send snail mail to Mr. Beat: https://www.iammrbeat.com/contact.html https://www.youtube.com/c/iammrbeat/about How to support and donate to my channel: Subscribe to @iammrbeat & hit the notification bell 🔔 Join for great perks on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/iammrbeat Donate to Mr. Beat on Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/mrbeat Buy Mr. Beat a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/iammrbeat Cameo: https://www.cameo.com/iammrbeat Subscribe to my second channel: @mattbeatgoeson Patreon for The Beat Goes On: https://www.patreon.com/thebeatgoeson Connect with me: Links: https://linktr.ee/iammrbeat Website: https://www.iammrbeat.com/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/thebeatpod Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/mrbeat/ @beatmastermatt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/beatmastermatt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iammrbeat/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iammrbeat Beatcord: https://discord.gg/g8cZPjt TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@iammrbeat Merch: https://matt-beat-shop.fourthwall.com/ https://www.bonfire.com/store/mr-beat/ https://sfsf.shop/support-mrbeat/ https://amzn.to/3fdakiZ Affiliate Links: Useful Charts: https://usefulcharts.com/?aff=12 This video is about a war you probably don’t know much about. If you’re an American, you likely didn’t hear much about it in American history class, and that’s likely because it’s a war that the American government has preferred you just…uh…not remember. You see, this war makes the United States look bad. Very bad, as a matter of fact. It’s a war that some historians say killed as many as one million people. A war in which American soldiers committed all kinds of atrocities, including pillage, torture, rape, and the massacre of civilians. A war of imperialism, in which the United States wanted to control the Philippines to exploit its resources and use it to expand trade throughout Asia. The Philippine-American War was objectively a disaster for everyone involved. It was a painful reminder that imperialism often just leads to the horrible subjugation of a people. In fact, this war single handedly turned Americans against imperialism, and even got the once staunch imperialist Teddy Roosevelt questioning himself. The war highlighted the importance of respecting the sovereignty of other nations. It also exposed the terrible racism toward Filipinos. American soldiers done messed up with their treatment of them. #apush #ushistory #filipino

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Michael Burt

Hoo, boy. This was painful to watch. First, it's horrifying all around. Just disgusting what the truth is. Second, well, while my mother-in-law was born a U.S. citizen on an American army base in Germany, she is the daughter of two who were born in the Phillipines during American control of the Phillipines. Her father fought in the Battle of the Bataan in WWII and served in the U.S. army. She is full blooded Filipino. My wife is half Filipino, and my children one quarter. Their existence is due to this horrible war. I will try to show the video to my wife, who is not a history fan but I hope is willing to learn about this. My young children will eventually learn about it, too, under my watch. It's truly heartbreaking to know the depths to which humans can sink when swept up in racism, superiority, and the like. Thanks as always for your hard work in compiling your research and presenting it in an easy to follow manner.

Michael Cortez

Hard video to watch. I’m half Filipino. My Filipino side - an uncle of ours actually fought at Caloocan against the country I now mostly proudly call home (the US). Thank you so much for sharing the truth of what happened. My family came over for a better life and despite what America did to them historically, they have found peace, stability, homes, and decent jobs. It’s so complicated reconciling that with the subject matter of this video.

Matt Beat

Thanks Michael. I think it helps that American-Filipino relations have tremendously healed since WWII. In fact, Filipino Americans make up the second-largest Asian ethnic group in the country. It's nice to know we now have a much better relationship.

Adam Christians

Thankfully my father's girlfriend who was born in the Philippines, she hasn't said anything about it. She's sweet as candy.

Adam Christians

She does a half U.S. half Philippines. My father will be doing it as well for snowbirding. She has family here fulltime in the U.S.

Andrew Schneider

I actually did learn about this in school, but only because I read ahead in my world history textbook in 6th grade. Even though we didn’t actually reach this subject in actual class discussion, I learned about subjects in that class that were never discussed in high school! Also highly recommend the Spanish-language film Los últimos de Filipinas about the Siege of Baler.

Matt Beat

You overachiever, Andrew. Extra credit for you! 😄 But in all seriousness, thanks for the movie recommendation.

DANTE VERONA

I concede in advance. I wasn't familiar with this military conflict until I think you mentioned it in a Live stream... Just grotesque. No positive spin here. Although, I'd rather know than not know.... I also did some other investigation on my own and some images are just hideous. I kinda suspect you might know what I'm referring to but you justifiably left it out. Ugh.

Matt Beat

Yep, I left them out because the video would have been age-restricted if I kept them in, which dramatically hurts the performance of the video. Hopefully more folks like you do some exploring on their own!

Bonnie

This I do not recall learning anything about. Thank you so much for this.

Devin Canada

wow you have a uncensored video on rumble. . your learning great ways to use rumble.

Matt Beat

Yeah it's nice to finally have an alternative platform to post my stuff where people actually go