Forgotten Heroes: Capt. David Fagen, a Black American dude who defected to Filipino forces during the Philippine-American War.

DAVID FAGEN was an African-American Army Cpl., born sometime in 1878 in Tampa, and a son of a former slave in Florida. In 1898, Fagen enlisted in the 24th Infantry, all-Black cavalry in the US Army, and was sent to Cuba for a war. After a year in Cuba, Fagen was deployed to Manila to fight in the Philippine-American War. After a few months of battling against the Filipinos, while in war, he sees and hates when white soldiers called the Filipinos, "n******" (as it also reminds him of tremendous discrimination in his home country), he also opposed American imperialism. Fagen turned his back on his own army, for his new life as a Filipino guerrilla that began on November 17, 1899. He becomes a very successful fighter, cunning, and highly skilled guerrilla who wreaked havoc, harassed, and evaded large conventional American units and achieved legendary status in Filipino Community. He became the most notorious and hated American traitor, a turncoat hero of the Philippine-American War that his capture became an obsession to the U.S. military and the American public.

Let this be a reminder to to the Filipino diaspora in AmeriKKKa that you live in the same nation who called him a n*****, and still proudly embraces fascism openly in the streets and throwing around dehumanizing racism as unironic humor. They don't want you there. Your motherland is calling you home, you have no place in a living hellscape where reactionaries want you to not exist for not being the correct race. And to the pro-US liberal simps at home, this is the same AmeriKKKa who burned our houses and maybe committed atrocities on your ancestors. Now they are crying wolf that China is the bloodthirsty monster out to devour us, so we could die for their imperialist war fueling their bloodlust.