#MyDayInBCD

To quote one writer in her opinion she said: "One truth about racism is that we Filipinos apparently don’t know what it means. Which is to say we have trivialized it no end, using it to describe any statement that highlights the Azkals’ difference from the rest of us who (1) are kayumanggi, i.e., are brown-skinned, (2) are Pinoys who grew up here, and (3) share common values and concerns based on, not necessarily just because of, numbers (1) and (2)." and she continues… "To assert that these are racist statements is to fail at understanding that racism is about asserting one race’s superiority over another." Racism is taken seriously in some other countries, recently in the UK a man was arrested for posting on his twitter account considered to be a racist comment after a football player collapse while playing in the pitch and to quote: "LOL [Laugh out loud]. **** Muamba. He’s dead!!! #haha." Nothing in the statement mentions about the color of ...