In this kind of controversy, I learned something. Remember when the Filipinos were allegedly embarrassed in the U.S. TV series "Desperate Housewives" and that other show in BBC? A lot of Filipinos reacted to that, some political personalities even got themselves involved and they demanded an apology from the producers of those shows. This time it's the Filipinos who were guilty for racial discrimination.
If you'll ask me, that FHM cover featuring Bella Padilla along with other black models is really a sort of racism in any angle you look at it and I think that FHM Philippines whether they intended it or not went too far, they didn't think first before they made that concept. Compared to those punchlines made by the Actress Terry Hatcher on "Desperate Housewives", what FHM did was more despicable because it's not a joke.
I'm sorry if I'm gonna have to say this, some (not all) Filipinos still has that trait we call "balat sibuyas". Some Filipinos easily gets offended when we are being used as punchlines in foreign shows, but they don't realize that they too can be racist at some point in time. In some Pinoy sitcoms, aren't we also seeing other foreign race like Indians and Chinese being used in punchline? Remember that character of Sam YG called "Shivaker"?
Let's go further, in the community, don't we Filipinos refer to Indian Nationals as "bumbay 5-6" "dvd,dvd" and mocks how they dressed, how they talk?
This incident should serve a lesson to everyone, if we don't want to be a victim of racism, let us not be racist ourselves.
