Wonder Where the Yellow Went? Aquino Doesn’t
President Corazon Aquino has had enough of yellow--the color that was the symbol of her rise to power.
“I have grown tired of it,” Aquino said on Sunday of the color that represented her “people power” revolution.
Her disclosure follows years of yellow dresses, yellow ribbons, yellow everything from flowers to political posters.
The color was popularized by Aquino’s husband, Benigno, as a symbol of opposition to President Ferdinand E. Marcos, and became entrenched as a political gesture after Benigno was assassinated in 1983 as he returned to the Philippines from exile in the United States.
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