He got it right. Jose Palma.
Amidst the turmoil that brought about the first Philippine republic that song was written. Amidst the confusion that made a Filipino hero, Emilio Aguinaldo, order to kill another Filipino hero, Antonio Luna, that song was written.
Filipinos killing each other and Filipinos selling their countrymen to foreigners are not proof that the Filipinos are weak. In fact it is a proof that the Filipinos are strong for that song was written after almost 400 years of brainwashing of the colonizers. A brainwashing that include calling us as indios. How could love of one's country still exist after all of that? After all that confusion, how can something remain?
"... ang mamatay ng dahil sa 'yo!"
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