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Reuters/REUTERS - The Philippines Vice-President Jejomar Binay attends the plenary session of the ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit in New Delhi December 20, 2012. Southeast Asian nations and India vowed on Thursday to step up cooperation on maritime security, a move that comes amid tension with China in the potentially oil- and gas-rich South China Sea. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi (INDIA - Tags: POLITICS)

Stop making fun of Vice President Jejomar Binay’s skin color.

This is the appeal of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), as it takes offense against administration coalition Team PNoy’s statement about color branding.

“When you say black, are you referring to the Vice President’s skin color?” UNA secretary-general Toby Tiangco said after Liberal Party (LP) said 2013 polls will be between “black and white.”

In a statement, Tiangco said LP acting president Joseph Emilio Abaya’s declaration may be seen as a subtle reference to the Vice President’s dark complexion.

“It’s okay for us because we don’t have fair skin colors if they are now basing it on the color of the skin because the Vice President is dark that’s why it’s a battle between black and white,” Tiangco said.

“But we again appeal to the leadership of LP to go beyond the innuendoes about skin color and to stop pitting the Vice President against the President,” he said.

But Tiangco, also a campaign manager for UNA, said the administration party should decide whether it wants to refer to its coalition as the “white” party or the “yellow” party.

“The Liberal Party is apparently confused as to its color branding simply because of the confusing multi-color mix of senatorial bets in the LP coalition ticket,” he said.

Binay is one of the leaders of UNA after forming agreeing his party Partido Demokratiko Pilipino (PDP)-Laban to coalesce with former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada’s Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino.

UNA is the only coalition who managed to field in a complete ticket that will clash against President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s bets for the senatorial elections this coming May.

why should they be conscious about it, in the first place?  how petty.

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 06, 2013, 11:18:13 AM
“But we again appeal to the leadership of LP to go beyond the innuendoes about skin color and to stop pitting the Vice President against the President,” he said.

hey, it is not as if pnoy is as white as this:

Quote from: islander on February 06, 2013, 11:34:50 AM
why should they be conscious about it, in the first place?  how petty.

Playing the lovable underdog kunohay lang gud...

maayo pay mag-payt na lang yellow ug brown, as in china versus the philippines. 

the yellow peril versus the brown algae, hehe.

korekt ka dyan, isles. very petty and colonial mentality-esque.

Quote from: islander on February 06, 2013, 11:43:30 AM
maayo pay mag-payt na lang yellow ug brown, as in china versus the philippines. 

hehe, what about us chinese-pinoys? what are we to be called? brellow? 

Quote from: islander on February 06, 2013, 11:43:59 AM
the yellow peril versus the brown algae, hehe.

as yellow as her?


if she is perilous, then, by all means, let her attack.

Quote from: islander on February 06, 2013, 11:43:59 AM
the yellow peril versus the brown algae, hehe.

The yellow egg versus the brown egg, you mean...

Quote from: Lorenzo on February 06, 2013, 12:25:43 PM
hehe, what about us chinese-pinoys? what are we to be called? brellow? 

One is yellow, the other is brown, sama sa kanta ni Eddie Peregrina:

"Two lovely eggs
One is yellow, the other's brown
Wondering what the others will say
Should I scratch one today..."

Bwahaha!