May 18, 2008

Hate Letter: An Insult Letter To All Filipinos

TO ALL FILIPINOS: READ THE WHOLE E-MAIL AND POST THIS TO YOUR BLOGS:
Subject: HATE LETTER
This is a very disturbing open E-mail letter to all Filipinos aroundthe world; specially here in North America!, from a man who has the power to reach million of people. (he’s a radio talk host)Please read on…………..
This is an open letter email by Art Bell, a radio talk show host in Nevada(more info in the email itself). Here is yet another person who has taken advantage of his power and priv ilege to use hateful words and racial stereotypes that breed further ignorance and intolerance in our society.Art Bell is a talk radio host who has two shows that he broadcasts from his home in Nevada, that is rebroadcast by 400 stations across the country.He’s written 2 books. He lived in Okinawa, Japan for some years and had a radio program on the English station here. And, though it’s hard to believe after reading the following letter from him, he actually has been to the Philippines (he’s traveled fairly extensively around the world).Check out his website listed at the end to get a who’s spreading this hateful ignorance. And letter is so degrading, I think it’s really important that everybody read this and not attack him, but respond to him in a civilized manner because otherwise his thoughts will be reaffirmed. Understand that not everyone has a viewpoint like we do, and that this is an opinion of someone who hopefully can be changed only by civil actions.
- May Munoz………………………………………..
Filipinos…..*make me puke* (Art Bell)As we’ve all come to notice, in the past few decades, Filipinos have begun to infest the United States like some sort of disease. Their extensive involvement in the U.S. Armed Forces is proof of the trashy kind of qualities all Filipinos tend to exhibit on a regular basis. You can see this clearly by studying the attitudes and cultural Icons of most Filipino Americans.Origins of Pinoys/Pinays:Are they really Asian? Well we’ve come to accept the fact the Filipinos come from a part of the world known as South East Asia. But the term ‘Asia’ is used in the wrong way. You may notice that contemporary Filipino Americans try very hard to associ ate themselves with groups that we know as Asian. I cannot count the number of times I have seen a ‘Third World’ Filipino try to connect themselves to the Chinese or Japanese people. There is no connection and here’s why. The Philippines is a Third World country. Nothing respectable has EVER been created by Filipino people during our entire human history. Young Filipino men in America have become obsessed with ‘import racing’. They have an enormously perverted affection for Japanese cars. It’s a common phenomenon. In their minds, these Filipinos somehow believe that they are Asian and that it somehow connects them to Japanese people and Japanese cars. They often take credit for the ingenuity of Japanese people and say how it’s an ‘Asian thing’. This term…’Asian thing’ derived directly from African American slang ‘blackthang’. ‘It’s a black thang.’ ‘It’s an asian thang.’ You can see the connection. It’s even funnier that, in Japan, Filipinos are heavily discriminated against. The only filipinos that can live successfully in Japan are the filipino prostitutes. But that’s the case for most Filipino people no matter where they live in the world. Now we’ve come down to this fact…and it is a fact.Nothing in Filipino Culture can be seen as Asian. They have no architectural, artistic, or cultural influence which is in ANY way, asian. Thinking of the great countries in Asia such as Japan, Korea, and China there is no way you can possibly connect the Philippine Islands. This assault by filipino americans to connect themselves with the great peoples of North East Asia is foul and disgusting. Try visiting a young filipino’s web site too. You’ll see something called the ‘Asian IRC Ring’. It has to do with the chatrooms. The most horrible thing about this is that these TRASHY people are trying to associate themselves with Asia again!! People in Asia don’t act like, this at all. What we are seeing here is the natural Filipino in it’s element with full access to technology and this is how they act! You will consistently see this behavior over and over again.Another interesting thing is that these ‘thirdworld’ people also frequent RC chatrooms such as #chinese #japan and #asian. They must believe that they are some how related racially or culturally to North Asians. But it’s completely WRONG! There might have been some distant contact With China and even less with Japan during World War II, but these people are actually more closely related to african americans and Mexican americans.Do the parents of these young filipinos know what’s going on? Would they accept this? I believe that they would and do.
This is the natural ‘Trash’ element in filipinos manifesting itself. Nothing good has ever come from Philippines and I don’t believe anything good ever will.Recognizing your Roots (A Message to Filipinos)To all filipino people lease recognize your ROOTS! You come from the Third World! You country is a disgusting and filthy place. Most people there live in poverty! Your culture has MUCH MORE SPANISH influence than chinese, and absolutely no JAPANESE influence whatsoever. People in Japan and China, do not act like you. They do not constantly talk about sex and they have a MUCH HIGHER level of RESPECT for each other. There is NO WAY that you can connect yourself to Asia other than location. Your culture and technological advancement does not even come CLOSE to What Chinese, people have done in the past and what Japanese and Korean people are doing now! Everything you do is distinctly filipino. You cannot take credit for Japanese cars, video games, or Hentai! It’s not an ‘asian thing’ it’s, an ‘American thing’. You have no concept of culture…no concept of asian ideas or asian philosophy! Can you demonstrate how you use Confucianism or Taoism in you everyday life?? You can’t. And you will NEVER be able to. I understand that you are trying to create an identity for yourselves as young people… but it is NOT related to Asia.Your Identity is Filipino. That’s all you are. Just Filipino. Think about what that means….
Sincerely,Art——————————————
I find this funny, he is right in some ways where we, as Filipinos dont actually have an ‘Identity’. I think this is due to the confusion of our mixed races from Hispanic, Chinese, American and Malay origins. I see it in malls, imagine young generations wearing ski caps and ski goggles in a tropical country, baggy low rise pants like that of African Americans living in th e Bronx of New York, not to mention endless whitening products being sold at department stores and drug stores. But his ignorance also blinds him from the other truth. That while we may glorify Anime shows and Japanese Internet gaming, he is not aware that a nameless Filipino may be responsible for some technical aspects of some Japanese software. He is not aware of our contribution to the the society in general .Technological advancements that may have aided post war navigations and landing on the moon. That the antibiotic Erythromycin was discovered by Dr. Abelardo Aguilar from Iloilo creating the brand ‘Ilosone’. Thomas Edison may have discovered the electric light bulb and the fluorescent lighting was thought up by Nikola Tesla. But the fluorescent lamp we use today was invented by Agapito Flores (a Cebuano named Benigno Flores of Bantayan Island, according to the Philippine Daily inquirer), a Filipino scientist. Americans helped then-Philippine leader Ramon Magsaysay to develo p it for worldwide commerce.That the personal physician of former U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton is Eleanor ‘Connie’ Concepcion Mariano, a Filipina doctor who was the youngest captain in the US Navy. A Filipino writer Jose Rizal could read and write at age 2, and grew up to speak more than 20 languages, including Latin, Greek, German, French and Chinese. Or that a Filipino genius was responsible for the near hiatus in the PENTAGON and White HOuse nearly infiltrating their closely guarded secrets with the ‘ILOVEYOU’ bug. Nuisance maybe, but still one heck of a ‘beautiful mind’…not to be underestimated.The list goes on and on, but who cares right? Certainly not Mr. Art Bell…Boy, I’m not surprised. Perhaps Art Bell does not know that although we consider ourselves ASIAN because we are strategically located in the Southeast asian region of which our nearest neighbors are Malays, ASIA does not mean only Chinese and Japanese race of people. Then maybe it is his connotation that ‘Asia’ meant only our economically successful, paler brothers and he considers Malays such as Thais, Malaysians, Indonesians, and ourselves as a ‘Third World’ race. Then it is ‘his’ ignonimity that would make a civilized person of whatever race puke. Imagine literally connecting Chinese, Koreans and Japanese to the Philippine Islands which is archipelagos away from the countries he has mentioned. I also wonder where he got the impression that we aspire to be Japanese(???) Hispanics maybe but not the Japanese. But even Hispanics today do not mind sharing their ’surnames’ to their Asian brothers who they have colonized for 3 centuries.Another sad reality that although most Filipinos working overseas are domestic helpers and prostitutes, who does he think educates the toddlers of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Tokyo? Parents of these countries rarely have time spent with their children, leaving them to their Filipino nannies. And with regards to prostitution. Filipinos are not the only ones working as one. I HARDLY SEE FILIPINOS STARRING IN PORN MOVIES. THERE MIGHT BE A FEW FILIPINOS WE HAVEN’T SEEN , BUT MOST ARE FROM MR. ART BELL’S RACE.He also mentioned that we have no concept of culture..no concept of asian ideas or asian philosophy. How can we demonstrate Confucianism or Taoism in a Christian nation? IS HE INFORMED THAT THE PHILIPPINES IS THE ONLY PREDOMINANTLY CHRISTIAN/CATHOLIC NATION IN ASIA?! YOU HAVE TO USE COMMON SENSE IN A LOT OF THINGS SOMETIMES…We do not need to create an identity for ourselves. We are who we are. Our identity stems from the anonymity we live in this world. How we contribute silent ly towards the progress of the world and not just one country. Although the Filipino blood may be tainted with malice, corruption, poverty and prostitution, it is not a perfect race… But so are the others. Maybe Mr. Art Bell needs to think about this. WE MAY NOT BE PERFECT MR. BELL BUT AT LEAST WE STILL HAVE VALUES. FOR ONE THING WE DONT PUT OUR AGING PARENTS IN NURSING HOMES BECAUSE ‘THEY’RE SIMPLY OLD AND WORTHLESS’. WE DONT HAVE AS MUCH NUMBERS OF SINGLE MOTHERS WHO GET PREGNANT IN THEIR VERY EARLY TEENS AND EVENTUALLY BECOME PARASITES OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR YEARS AND YEARS. YES…WE CAME TO YOUR COUNTRY TO WORK, TO EARN DECENT MONEY (HALF OF WHICH BY THE WAY GOES TO TAXES BECAUSE THERE’S SO MANY SOCIAL PARASITES FROM YOUR RACE).AND BY THE WAY, MOST EDUCATED PEOPLE THAT I WORK WITH DONT COME FROM YOUR RACE… THEY’RE ACTUALLY IMMIGRANTS TOO. AND THOSE EDUCATED ONES DO NOT ACT LIKE YOU DO, PERHAPS BECAUSE THEY’VE REALLY BEEN WELL EDUCATED..AFTER ALL THAT’S SAID… WHO IS THE IGNORANT ONCE AGAIN?!
-May Munoz
Shame on Art Bell, I HEAR you May!
Talking about filipinos working abroad, do watch Sharon Cuneta's New Movie "CareGiver"
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Posted by felicityme at 12:36 AM 0 comments
Labels: Filipinos, scandal
Saturday, May 17, 2008

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

E-mail hoax catches PDI off balance
(Published in Computerworld Philippines, July 9, 2001)
By Chin Wong

THE Philippine Daily Inquirer, the country's largest circulation daily newspaper, was caught off guard last week when an entertainment columnist reprinted a phony e-mail that attributed anti-Filipino statements to a US radio talk show host.
The newspaper and its online news portal, Inq7.net, quickly retracted the story and apologized after radio commentator Art Bell, through his lawyer, wrote to complain that the e-mail purportedly written by him was a hoax that he had already denied more than two years ago.
In an e-mail response to questions, Isagani Yambot, publisher of the Inquirer, said the newspaper has no policies referring specifically to the need to verify the authenticity of electronic documents such as e-mail.
"We do have policies referring in general to information and documents obtained by reporters," Yambot said. "But after the Art Bell incident, we are now drafting rules on the verification of the authenticity of electronic documents."

DENIAL
In an open letter to his listeners posted on his Web site (www.artbell.com), Bell said that the Inquirer item, published in the "Showbiz Tidbits" column by Leah Salterio on July 1, had resulted in "hundreds of e-mails and death threats to me and my family."
"As many of you I hope are aware, I DID NOT WRITE this trash and never would," Bell wrote, adding that his wife is half Filipino. The bogus e-mail, Bell said, had been traced to a computer located at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD), and had been posted repeatedly on USENET newsgroups and referenced in chatrooms. UCSD, Bell said, had already sent him an apology that has been posted on his Web site for almost three years.
In his letter to the Inquirer, Bell's legal counsel Gerard Fox said Salterio's statement that Bell wrote the e-mail is false. "Even a cursory glance at Mr. Bell's Web site or an inquiry sent to Mr. Bell or his representatives would have established the e-mail was a fraudulent Internet posting not written by Art Bell."
The Inquirer printed a retraction in its Tuesday edition under the headline "Radio talk show host Art Bell not behind insulting e-mail", and admitted they did not check Bell's Web site before going to print.
"The Inquirer apologizes for its failure to investigate the source of the e-mail. It regrets the error," the newspaper said.
Inq7.net also ran the retraction and took the offending column off line.
In her July 1 column, Salterio said she received the forwarded e-mail from a Filipino contact working with Channel News Asia, with a note that said: "Please pass this on to every Filipino you know." Salterio attributed the bogus e-mail to Bell, then quoted portions of it, entitled "Filipinos...make me puke".
"The Philippines is a Third World country," the e-mail read. "Nothing respectable has ever been created by Filipino people during our entire human history. Nothing good has ever come from Philippines and I don't believe anything good ever will... In Japan, Filipinos are heavily discriminated against. The only Filipinos that can live successfully in Japan are Filipino prostitutes..."

LESSONS LEARNED
Yambot said the Inquirer discussed the Art Bell case in its weekly editorial assessment meeting and came out with three key lessons:
"One lesson is that we have to constantly refer to the Manual of Editorial Policies for guidance on potentially controversial stories, articles and column items," he said.
"Another lesson is that we have to realize that columnists are NOT exempted from the rules on accuracy, objectivity and fairness and on verification and documentation that govern reporters and writers."
"And yet another lesson is that we should NOT take information and other matters available on the Internet at face value and use them as if they were the truth or verified data."
Yambot added that the reporter and the Metro/Entertainment editor have been given ``explain why'' letters. "If the senior editors find their explanations unsatisfactory, sanctions will be imposed on them," he said.

NEW TRAIL
On his Web site, Bell's Webmaster cautioned that the original trail that led to UCSD in 1998 is a dead end.
"What we need to do is track down the hot trail of the most recent posting to the 'Net, that resulted in the PDI story. This posting, made within the last month, had our newest e-mail address (feedback@artbell.com) listed in the post. Which means it was initiated by someone who visits our site regularly. We believe this post was initially made to the "pinoytok@yahoogroups.com" e-mail list. We are not able to search the archives of this list, since they are membership based only and have not added new members to their group for some time....
We need to get on that list and search their archives for the initial post. Then we can back-track the source. If anyone has any information regarding a recent `initial' post to any newsgroup, mailing list or Internet BBS, that is not a reply to some forwarded post, please let us know. We would like to track down anyone who creates a `first-time' post of this material."

DRUDGE REPORT
Ironically, the Inquirer gaff made it to the Drudge Report, the gossipy Web site owned by Internet entrepreneur Matt Drudge, who gained the media spotlight in 1998 when he broke the Monica Lewinsky-Bill Clinton liaison story, by working the phone and PC from his Los Angeles apartment.
The Drudge Report quoted a source "close to the radio host" as saying: "This vicious writing is so obviously a fraud to anyone who listens to Bell's program and to those of us who know Bell personally. What is so surprising, and alarming, is how it has spread... now a newspaper half way around the world has gone and published it!"
Bell's radio show, Coast to Coast AM, deals with UFO's, strange occurrences, life after death, and other unexplained phenomena. It is heard on 500 stations across the United States.

Anonymous said...

I just stumbled across this because this "email" has popped up again, and once again it is a hoax. Art did not right this email. I thought you would like to know, that Art is currently married to a Filipino woman and they have a child together.
Maybe it'll be wise for you to take this section down.

Anonymous said...

From the Manila Times.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2009/feb/19/yehey/opinion/20090219opi8.html

 

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