POLITICAL RAINBOW

POLITICAL RAINBOW

People are not just talking about a yellow bird or a yellow submarine, nor about a yellow box or the third color of the rainbow. But for whatever reason everybody’s interest suddenly turned to yellow – the new color of courage, Philippines style; the new symbol of Freedom; the banner of Democracy.

Now Noynoy, the son of Ninoy to whom the yellow ribbons were hanged everywhere to welcome him home from self exile, wants to see the country turning yellow to convince him to run for Presidency in the coming election.

I can understand Noynoy’s predicament. Presidency is not a joke as his mother realized when she run and won against a very strong dictator. For indeed his mother, Cory was not joking when she chased democracy back for the Filipinos to enjoy again. Now Cory is universally accepted as the Mother of Democracy.

Ninoy sincerely believed that the Filipinos were worth dying for and Cory proved that Filipinos are worth living for. Now can Noynoy at least show that the Filipinos are worth anything at all?

Yellow is originally and globally considered the color of cowardice. Is that the essence of the color now flowing in Noynoy”s veins or is he overwhelmingly confused of what is yellow’s true meaning now for the present generation? Is the new yellow too insurmountable to tackle after his parents made it so huge and heavy to handle?

The new political revolution could be expected to be very colorful but unlike the rainbow that God let appeared after the deluge as a promise not to repeat what happened, the prevailing colors now appearing seem not to promise anything to the voters. Whether it be Loren Legarda’s Green or Bayani Fernando’s Pink or any other color and for that matter I believe that even Noynoy’s yellow doesn’t yet promise any worthy hue to our already graying country.