During Martial Law, my personal friends were jailed, tortured, raped, maimed, and murdered; we lost our jobs because your father shut down media; we lost our legal rights because he suspended the writ of habeas corpus; plus many more atrocities.
Would you call those “yellowish?”
You let your father’s body fester, displaying to the world his replica, for 27 years so that you could, on November 18, 2016, 12 noon, brandish his power over Filipinos once again by burying him at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes’ Shrine).
You opened up our old wounds; you forced us to relive those dark, dark years in our country's history.
Forgive? Yes, every Christian must. But reward? Reward the perpetrator of beastly crimes with a hero’s burial? Marcos is not a hero.
So please do not gag us nor kill our spirit, like your father did, by branding us “yellowish.” Call us by our real names:
Martial Law Victims.
We.are.not.yellowish.
We are black. Black with and in pain.
May the grace of humility find you, Imee. When it does, I pray that you receive it.
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Thanks for saying it so succintly for our generation. Showed my students a fast facts video of the Marcos years today. This is must reading too in my next session.
I am grateful that I didn't get any cyber bully or troll for this post. As Martial law victims, we are helpless. But with democracy, today, we have a voice.
My prayer: that the gods that be don't gag us once more.
"The glory of saving ones country cannot be attributed to the one who has caused its ruins" jprizal
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