Filipino Activist Ponders Why S.F. Hosts Streets Named For Those Who Gleefully Killed His Ancestors

Full story: SF Weekly

General William Shafter, namesake of Shafter Street. In 1899 he postulated "it may be necessary to kill half the Filipinos" for the other half to ascend from barbarism.

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