“The Complex Legacy of American Involvement in the Philippines: Beyond Morality and Race”

Please choose the following statement and support it. 
American actions vis-à-vis the Philippines cannot be viewed form the prism of morality or immorality. America by defeating Spain in the Spanish American War freed the Philippines from the highly oppressive Spanish colonial rule, which lasted for three centuries. Thereafter, America colonized and ruled the Philippines that significantly benefited by American effort to develop and modernize the Philippines. Also, utilization of African American soldiers in the Philippine-American War (1899 -1902) was not racially motivated.
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