Arnold Clavio criticized for his alleged racist remark against the Azkals

GMA News anchor Arnold Clavio has recently become a subject of criticisms after his ‘racist’ remarks on the Philippine national football team Azkals. He remarked in a segment in Unang Hirit, a GMA morning program where he serves as a reporter, that the Azkals members, Lexton Moy and Angel Guirado, deserved it right referring to the recent sexual harassment case filed by match commissioner Cristina Ramos.

In his comment, he said “Sana nag sorry, sorry na lang talaga ‘di ba.. na ‘di ko kayo ka-kultura.. kasi wala dito’t wala dito (pointing to the chest and head), ‘di naman kayo Pilipino e, nagpapanggap lang kayong kayumanggi, hindi kayo dito lumaki. Mahirap ‘yun. Insensitive”

Netizens react to this issue, stating that it is mere crab mentality. Others say that the comments were racist, foul and harsh remarks, which is not of a responsible journalist.

The irony of it was he said insensitive and yet he didn’t consider the feelings of the other members of the Azkals when he said “di naman kayo Pilipino e, nagpapanggap lang kayong kayumanggi.”

After this issue, GMA-7 broadcast journalist Arnold Clavio has issued an official statement after drawing flak for his alleged racist statement about the Philippine Azkals.

The statement reads:

Mga igan, nakakalungkot na may negatibong reaksyon ang naging pahayag ko tungkol sa Philippine Azkals kaugnay ng sexual harassment complaint ni Ms. Cristy Ramos. Wala po akong ganoong intensyon. Ang isyu po rito ay sexual harassment at kung may nagamit man po akong mga salita na hindi angkop, nagpapakumbaba po ako at humihingi ng pang-unawa. Dun naman po sa mga kasama kong nanindigan laban sa sexual harassment, maraming salamat po. Seryoso pong isyu ito na dapat bantayan.

-Arnold Clavio

Ahcee Flores is trending for a wrong reason

A certain Ahcee Flores from Caloocan City is now the center of hatred and serious attacks in several social networking sites after he posted a message on Facebook wishing the victims of earthquake in the Visayas area to die of tsunami following a 6.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the area on Monday, February 6, 2012.

A certain Ahcee Flores commented on a Story on Yahoo! Philippines, “let us all pray….na matuloy ang tsunami para maraming bisaya ang mamatay, para mabawasan ang mga baduy sa pilipinas.”

A screen capture of the post has gone viral over social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Flores now has several hate pages on Facebook, and haters have flooded @ahcee_flores with mentions on Twitter, which she has stopped replying to since last night. @ahcee flores has not denied that she posted the viral comment, and her posts are still currently open to the public.