”We cannot reclaim Pinoy pride solely through boxing matches or a catalogue of personalities, but to distance ourselves from slavery. African-Americans rejoiced with Joe Louis, but continued to be defined by the Aunt Jemima’s and Uncle Ben’s of their stereotype. Heck, it cannot be reclaimed by a blog post. It takes a movement to correct the errors of education: to emphasize that we had sophisticated culture and governance before our colonizers subjugated and destroyed it with method. It takes a movement to render race illegitimate, that it is the shallowest and most inane facet of human difference. It takes a movement to reclaim our pride: that we are Filipino, that we are recovering from our addiction to Colony and driven out of place of our own country.

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