Days after celebrating the de facto Bonifacio Day, this question should be asked. How, as a nation and as a people, have we honored Gat Andres Bonifacio, the Father of the Revolution? Other than the fact that he suffered from the great snub and was bypassed in the choice of our national hero, we have three painful and truthful answers. These are: By betraying his ideals. By trivializing his greatness. By the blissful acceptance of the rule of the local political elite who in earlier times loathed and murdered Gat Andres. The Philippines today is nowhere near the republic that Bonifacio dreamed of building from the wreckage of the revolution. Borrowing from the high ideals of the French Revolution, Gat Andres wrote of a society based on the three principles of liberty, fraternity and egalitarianism. Egalitarianism was not only a borrowed concept. It was, for Bonifacio, a building block for the new country.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 02:39:31 +0000
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