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Tag: white God

Posted on December 16, 2018January 27, 2022

A colonized spirituality

I prayed a lot when I was younger. And whenever I did, I imagined praying to a god with an Anglicanized countenance. A white god. A white Jesus. As a first generation Filipina, my experiences with religion in the Philippines were never without the influences of Spanish Roman Catholicism, American Protestantism, or the mixture of …

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*Both self-sacrifices and killings.
Lately, I’ve been seeing Filipinos raise the Philippine flag where the red field is above the blue field, which signifies that our country is in a state of war. But are we more a colony than a country? Shouldn’t the red field be above the blue one all this time, knowing the US’s stronghold on our lands, governance, and our very existences? Were we ever truly free?
But we honestly have NOT slept. And even then, LABAN PARIN.
Footage of us two nights ago 🌷 LABAN. TUMINDIG. | Leni-Kiko Miting De Avance, May 7, 2022. Makati City. Song: ‘Rosas’ by @nicadelrosario feat. @gabpangilinan
International friends, the low and quiet audience response when it comes to global solidarity is upsetting, when so much of y’all’s tax payer money is going to the weaponry and ammunition that killed, tortured, and imprisoned the defenders of human rights, farmers, indigenous peoples, journalists, unionizers, unarmed civilians, and my own friends.
Actually, scratch ‘emotional.’ Some of you/us have parented beyond that.

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