To uphold equality, let’s also issue visas to Yanks 

By Al S. Mendoza

 

WHEN was the last time you went to the US embassy to request for an American visa?

And was your wish granted?

Never mind.

I know what happened.

You were denied.

You have not even started to show proof of your bank accounts and other documents to prove you are rich.

But the guy in the window would almost quickly cut you off in cold-blooded fashion.

In short, a resounding no for you.

Almost every Yank in the Embassy window will just simply yank you out.

In the Yank’s mind, you do not deserve a US visa.

You are not qualified.

You will only end up as the next TNT (tago nang tago) in the US.

The next undocumented alien in America.

All your efforts in producing your papers for presentation will evaporate as quickly as a bubble burst.

Tossed out the window before you even know it.

Including your P6,000-plus application fee.

Poor you, you are nothing but a piece of dirt in the eyes of that Yank in the window.

All your prayers to Mother of Perpetual Help in Baclaran not far from the US embassy will just go down the drain.

This embarrassment inflicted on us in our own country has been going on for the longest time.

Why because we allow it.

The Yanks had been mistreating us for so long and yet, no one has ever lifted a finger to remedy this.

Right in our own country, we are second class citizens since time immemorial.

And our politicians, and so-called leaders, have done nothing to correct this.

But, hey, President Duterte to the rescue.

He now wants the Americans to also have a Philippine visa when they come visiting our country.

Why not?

If we talk of equality, then let’s also require the Yanks to secure PHL visas before they could come here.

Time now to equalize matters.

Time to say Yanks and Pinoys are co-equals.

Why must Americans be allowed free entry into our country anytime they want to?

But not us going to their country.

Why they decide whether we are qualified or not to visit them or not—where’s equality there?

Didn’t we have that great song only a while back that said, “We are the world.”

One world means the entire world is for all the peoples of the universe, right?

Change is here.

And Digong personifies change.

As Bob Dylan, the recent Nobel Prize winner for literature, sang it, “For the times, they are a-changin.’”

Digong is absolutely correct to push for equality:  Americans must also have PHL visas before coming to our shores.

In short, abolish visas for both countries.

That way, equality is observed.

With equality, fair play is upheld.

Isn’t America the champion of equality and fair play, not to mention democracy?

You tell me.

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