“My first brush with Renato Constantino was through Mr. Herman Rochester, our 4th year high school adviser, who lent me his “Miseducation of the Filipino.” From then on I was hooked.
In college, I encountered “Parents and Activists”, which helped me understand my parents’ objections to my activism, then his books “A Past Revisited” and “A Continuing Past” which made me learn history in a way that I was never taught in my elementary and high school years. His and his wife Leticia’s many articles, pamphlets, books and publications were guiding lights that stirred up the makabayan and palaban in me. Theirs was a writing that was nakakapagmulat at nakakataas ng pag unawa.
In today’s red tagging era, Tato and Leti would be easily branded as communist terrorist operatives engaged in the radicalization and terrorist grooming of our youth. Buti na lang the Constantino Foundation is sponsoring an exhibit of their works and romance, showing present day Pinoys that nationalism, activism, and revolution are actually what nations are built from.
Visit “Pasts Revisited: An Exhibit on a Usable History and the Romance of Renato Constantino and Letizia Roxas Constantino” at the Yuchengco Museum, Ayala cor. Buendia Ave., Makati. Exhibit opens daily at 10am and runs till July 11.” – Former Bayan Muna Representative on his Facebook Posts last June 11, 2026.
