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Emil Guillermo: The real independence day for Filipinos and a new call for Filipinos everywhere to take a stand
By now you know it’s not July 4th, the fakey Filipino American ceremonial day that mirrors Big White Brother.
Independence Day? it’s June 12th because that’s when Philippine General Emilio Aguinaldo, proclaimed independence from Spain from the balcony of his home in Cavite.
June 12, 1898.
And then, things change when Spain, as part of losing the overall Spanish American War gave the U.S. the Philippines in the Treaty of Paris.
Talk about double-cross.
And now the Filipinos had to fight the U.S.
600,000 Filipinos are estimated to have died overall. At least 5,000 U.S. soldiers.
But that’s history.
Today the “beef” is with China, which has begun building islands in the waters that are in Filipino territory.
Filipinos are taking an Alamo-like stand.
Consider showing your support today in boycotts around the country. This one in San Francisco.
Emil Guillermo: As I kid spent hours listening to the records of Ornette Coleman.
Back in the days when libraries loaned records, I remember as an 11-year old taking out all the Ornette Coleman records I could get my hands on. I don’t know if I really understood what I was listening to. It was just an explosion of sound, so different from my parents records of music from the Philippines.
It was an aural representation of freedom.
Coleman was 85 when he died this morning.
Click here to read more of his life, and to hear some of his music.
Emil Guillermo: Asian American with the game winner! Bobby Wood? Hawaii-born, California-raised, now a hero for U.S. Men’s Soccer in first victory on German soil ever.
Asian American alert:Bobby Shou Wood, from Honolulu, who played youth soccer in Irvine, Calif., and now plays pro soccer in Germany, was the U.S. hero in yesterday’s U.S.Men’s team friendly versus Germany in Cologne. Bobby Wood. Yes. Asian American. Just look at his fade.
SEE IT HERE:
Here's Bobby Wood's winner for the #USMNT http://t.co/sNdmVt6d25 https://t.co/ViSQgd8YAg
— SB Nation Soccer (@SBNationSoccer) June 10, 2015