By Grand Rapids Anonymous
monday, april 28, 2025 at 10:18:00 a.m. edt
The absurdity of “Lapu Lapu Day”
“(ap) Vancouver had more than 38,600 residents of Filipino heritage in 2021, representing 5.9% of the city’s total population, according to statistics canada, the agency that conducts the national census.
“Lapu Lapu Day celebrates Datu Lapu-Lapu, an indigenous chieftain who stood up to spanish explorers who came to the Philippines in the 16th century. the organizers of the Vancouver event, which was in its second year, said he ‘represents the soul of native resistance [in a foreign country!], a powerful force that helped shape the Filipino identity in the face of colonization.’”
GRA: Lo resisted—“Lapu Lapu Day.” These designations, with festivals and parades, become easy targets. Without “Lapu Lapu Day”—no one dead.
Why have a day for 5.9% of the population, anyway?
--GRA
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jerry pdx
Well, 13% gets the whole month of February, plus juneteenth, kwanzaa and mlk day, so smaller minority groups are going to step forward and demand their own celebration days, or months.
I watched an obscure movie about voodoo, "Ouanga" (1935), and afterward looked it up on Wikipedia. This is what I got:
"The film's themes include miscegenation and it features various racial stereotypes and portrays the people who practice voodoo as primitive."
Actually, the movie, though crude, depicts the characters reasonably (to my perception), not "stereotypically" at all.
As for the other assertion- well, who would conceivably think that belief in (and practice of) voodoo is "primitive"? Only "racists," no doubt.
Thus we absolve our sins by celebrating "Juneteenth," MLK Day... or "Lapu Lapu Day."
-RM
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