Poverty is our blackness. If the experience of blackness can be translated into terms that Filipinos can understand, it is the experience of poverty. The Filipino experience of poverty is the lifelong and intergenerational experience of disempowerment, subjugation, (1/10)
disenfranchisement, and the inability to determine your own personal destiny.
As a society, we have fully committed ourselves—consciously or subconsciously—to the perpetuation of a system that continuously subjugates the poor and takes power away from them, (2/10)
As a society, we have fully committed ourselves—consciously or subconsciously—to the perpetuation of a system that continuously subjugates the poor and takes power away from them, (2/10)
only to hand it back to them in the form of dole outs and maintain this relationship of toxic dependency.
Gusto natin utang na loob nila sa atin ang buhay nila. Why? What for? Because we are greedy. Gahaman tayo. (3/10)
Gusto natin utang na loob nila sa atin ang buhay nila. Why? What for? Because we are greedy. Gahaman tayo. (3/10)
We desire to have more in life because we have created a system that only sees you if you have money. Money makes you visible. And more money makes you powerful. This greed is our whiteness. It ties our hands and blinds us. (4/10)
We can't seem to look at the mirror and see it in us. The colonizers might have left but their whiteness remained. It remained in us and in our desire to become socio economic elites—the ones in power; the ones in control. (5/10)
Always hoping to replace the players, but never thinking of replacing the system because we want to benefit from it as well.
Andaming nagdurusa sa harap natin pero kung saan saan tayo tumitingin at nagbubulag-bulagan tayo. (6/10)
Andaming nagdurusa sa harap natin pero kung saan saan tayo tumitingin at nagbubulag-bulagan tayo. (6/10)
Yung mga mahihirap, pinili na lang tanggapin ang sistema at maging manhid sa pagdurusa nila. Maglalakad nang tatlong oras papuntang EDSA dahil walang masakyan para lang kumita ng barya. Kapag nagreklamo ka tatawagin kang terorista or papatayin ka. (7/10)
Yung kapulisan, ginagawang private army ng mayayaman. Ang hustisya ibinebenta sa pinakamataas na mahalaga.
"Wala na tayong magagawa, ganyan na talaga"—this is the worst kind of death. Humihinga ka pa pero pinapatay ka na ng sistema.
"I can breath. But I'm not living."
(8/10)
"Wala na tayong magagawa, ganyan na talaga"—this is the worst kind of death. Humihinga ka pa pero pinapatay ka na ng sistema.
"I can breath. But I'm not living."
(8/10)
This is not to take away from what is happening in the US. I stand in solidarity with our black brothers and sisters.
(9/10)
(9/10)
But this is for my fellow Filipinos: it is funny how you can raise your fist in solidarity with people an ocean away but turn a blind eye to the oppression happening right in front of you.
(10/10)
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(10/10)
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