1898 - Spanish-American War: American troops enter the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico (Source)
From Howard Zinn's book The Twentieth Century (referring to the Spanish-American war):
"A volunteer from this state of Washington wrote: 'Our fighting blood was up, and we all wanted to kill 'n***rs.' ...This shooting human beings beats rabbit hunting all to pieces.' It was a time of intense racism in the United States. In the years between 1889 and 1903, on the average, every week, two Nigroes were lynched by mobs-hanged, burned, mutilated. The Filipinos were brown-skinned and strange looking to Americans...Our men have been relentless, have killed to exterminate men, women, children prisoners and captives. Active insurgents and suspected people from lads ten up, the idea prevailing that the Philippino as such was little better than a dog..."
Note: I like to think America - as a nation - has come a long way in realizing what the Bible said over 4,000 years ago, that all men and women are created in the image of God and therefore equal before him:
'And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them." - Genesis 1:24,27
From Howard Zinn's book The Twentieth Century (referring to the Spanish-American war):
"A volunteer from this state of Washington wrote: 'Our fighting blood was up, and we all wanted to kill 'n***rs.' ...This shooting human beings beats rabbit hunting all to pieces.' It was a time of intense racism in the United States. In the years between 1889 and 1903, on the average, every week, two Nigroes were lynched by mobs-hanged, burned, mutilated. The Filipinos were brown-skinned and strange looking to Americans...Our men have been relentless, have killed to exterminate men, women, children prisoners and captives. Active insurgents and suspected people from lads ten up, the idea prevailing that the Philippino as such was little better than a dog..."
Note: I like to think America - as a nation - has come a long way in realizing what the Bible said over 4,000 years ago, that all men and women are created in the image of God and therefore equal before him:
'And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them." - Genesis 1:24,27
