Celebrating Independence Day on June 12 is a lie. If you re-study history then notice when did the Philippines truly become a sovereign state? June 12, 1898 or July 4, 1946? If your answer is June 12, 1898 then maybe it's time to let you re-read your history books from elementary because July 4, 1898 is the correct answer. Please don't ever raise the founding of the first Filipino republic happened on June 12, 1898 because the Philippines soon came under two colonizers -- the United States of America and the now deceased Imperial Japan. So was the nation REALLY independent back then?
It's time to consider the first president Emilio Aguinaldo. Is he worth even being called the Filipino George Washington or the Filipino Benedict Arnold? This guy should be included in the history of the dark side of the Filipino-Chinese community. While there were Tsinoy heroes who helped the founding of the Philippines as it is today while there are villains in it, too. Aguinaldo should be considered for what he is -- a low-life, self-serving traitor and not a hero with some information that can be found in Filipi-Know. It turns out that he was a power-hungry guy who betrayed his own men such as Andres Bonifacio and he didn't even punish the men who murdered Heneral Antonio Luna. Worse, he was also an Imperial Japanese collaborator along with Benigno Aquino Sr. and Manuel Roxas Sr.
How many years in the Philippine history since Diosdado Macapagal moved the Independence Day celebrations from July 4 to June 12 have been done? The 1998 celebration saying that the Philippines has gained 100 years of independence is very much a sham. The Philippines didn't have its own real self-governing government UNTIL July 4, 1946 when the American government voluntarily withdrew the Philippines from their control. That was when the Philippines truly gained its independence to reign on its own as a sovereign state -- not June 12, 1898. July 4 should be the real celebration not June 12 for that reason.
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