Months after 70,000 pink-shirted Negrenses chanted “Never again, never forget,' the son of the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos returns to this city as top guest at the weekend culmination of the 43rd MassKara Festival. READ:
“It is an appalling and a grave insult to our Negros history,” community journalist Joey Baldonado told Rappler. “Resisting is still important, maybe now more than ever.”Alminaza wondered why the head of a government grappling with another food and sugar crisis “would rather attend high society gatherings instead of focusing on addressing the urgent needs of the people, specifically agriculture.”
Much of the ambivalence reflects small town realpolitik in action. It is also the offshoot of Philippine voters compartmentalizing their national and local electoral choices, and the subsequent complications of saving face. “As far as I know, Albee still has to disappoint,” said Si. “Whether our expectations are justified or not, the majority of Bacolodnons seem to expect Albee to get the best for the city and also expect him to protect Bacolod from possible excesses and abuses of a national government under Marcos Jr.”
Marcos’ overwhelming 31-million national vote could also have something to do with the world-weary attitude. But behind the silence may be some seething.
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