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Rizal had no Chinese blood
By: Manuel L. Morato


If Lozada is trying to send us a subliminal message that Jose Rizal had Chinese blood like him, he is completely wrong.

Parang ang mensaheng nais niyang ihatid sa ating lahat ay “probinsiyanong Intsik” siya tulad ni Jose Rizal. Kaya iginigiit niya na idol raw niya si Jose Rizal para subliminally mai-kumpara natin siya kay Jose Rizal, our hero, the great “Chinoy” like him.

Mag-ingat ka, Lozada. Jose Rizal was not a Chinoy. Maybe you’ve been reading the wrong books. But in the book I published, researched for 20 years by Dr. Jose Baron-Fernandez, a multi-awarded international author and researcher, doctor of medicine, expert on the circulation of the blood, of which he wrote 14 books and taught them as a university professor in Spain and in Mexico, established that Jose Rizal did not have a drop of Chinese blood by the time he was born. Dr. Baron had admired Jose Rizal since he was a 15-year old-student in Spain.

Jose Baron was orphaned at a young age and was brought up by an uncle. His admiration for Jose Rizal started when his uncle received a letter from then Philippine Islands with a stamp of Jose Rizal on it. When Jose Baron asked his uncle who he was, the uncle replied that Jose Rizal was a Filipino hero who the Spaniards in the Philippines unjustly killed.

That must have been on or about 1915, for Dr. Baron was born in 1900, and I bought his manuscript on Jose Rizal �" Filipino Doctor and Patriot in 1977 when he was 77 years old. I also invited him to come to Manila for the first time in 1981 to launch his book which was written in Spanish and translated into English by Dr. Lilia Hidalgo Laurel of UP. I bought the rights to this book from Dr. Baron. I have read many books on Jose Rizal, and as Dr. Onofre Corpuz, an intellectual, secretary of Education in 1981, said: “it is the most accurate, the most authentic and the most complete and the most documented book on Jose Rizal” and promised to make it the official textbook in the schools. Unfortunately, he left the department soon after that.

Without casting aspersion on anyone, the books on Jose Rizal used in schools are based on hearsay like what Lozada is resorting to now. In order for the book to be accepted as textbook in UST and Letran, the Spanish friars then running those institutions insisted on making Rizal a lesser man, babaero, a man who was against the Catholic Church which were lies to simply degrade him. But Jose Rizal was a true Christian until the day he died. He died believing in God. He was only against the bad Spanish friars sent to our shores. Jose Rizal never turned against the Church but was only against those bad friars who represented the Church in this country.

Aren’t we experiencing the same situation as Jose Rizal did during his time?

The only difference, imbes na mga prayleng Kastila na nagwalanghiya sa atin noon, ang mga pumalit na ating kadugo ay mas masahol pa yata. Nagsipagmana sa mga masamang prayle.

Hindi naman lahat. Gaya noong panahon ni Jose Rizal, may masasama at may mababait din namang Spanish Friars.

I printed thousands of copies of Dr. Baron’s books, gave them away to many libraries of public and private schools as my legacy to the Filipino people. That was in the 1980s and 90s.

Some were consigned to National Book Store but were immediately sold out. I’ve also gifted my friends with this wonderful book which I feel all families should have in their homes like the Bible. his book shows how much Jose Rizal loved his country and his family, which I see totally absent in Lozada no matter how much he pretends to be like Jose Rizal.

Far from it. Jose Rizal was not a braggart who wallowed in self-aggrandizement which is Lozada’s cup of tea.

Dr. Jose Baron-Fernandez loved Jose Rizal so much that he even sued the Spanish government to allow him to enter the secret archives to see all the documents on Jose Rizal, which the Spanish government had taken to Spain to “bury” them for life as well as the documents on the Cavite Mutiny of 1872. The law states that no foreigner can enter the secret archives. Baron argued that he was a Spanish national and not a foreigner and as such he must be allowed to enter the secret archives. He won.

I have in my possession all the secret documents on Jose Rizal (and also in the trials of Gomburza), including the document on the assassination attempt on Jose Rizal in Dapitan, when a Recollect priest, Padre Gerardo, paid a certain Florencio Namanan P70 to kill Rizal. Namanan must have been the first hired killer who did not follow the friars’ instruction for love of Rizal.

This came out for the first time in the Jose Rizal book of Dr. Jose Baron-Fernandez, Jose Rizal �" Filipino Doctor and Patriot, which I now own.

As an expert on the circulation of the blood, Dr. Jose Baron-Fernandez categorically stated that Jose Rizal by the time he was born had NO drop of Chinese blood anymore, for though there were intermarriages between Chinese and Filipinos among his ancestors, a hundred years had elapsed when Jose Rizal was born in 1861. According to his studies on the circulation of the blood, blood is purified after a hundred years.

Jose Rizal was a true and pure Malayan, a true and pure Filipino at the time of his birth.

I have more Chinese blood than Jose Rizal, for in blood, I am 50 percent Spanish, 25 percent Filipino, and 25 percent Chinese because on my mother’s side. She was a Filipino-Chinese mestiza surnamed LIM.

For sure, Lozada is more Chinese than me. More Chinese than Filipino.
As the late Dr. Jose Baron-Fernandez told me before he died: “I dedicated my life for the love of Rizal and worked for 20 years writing this book to make amends to the Filipino people for what my race had unjustly done to him.”

To Mr. Jun Lozada: Don’t desecrate the name of Jose Rizal and his memory.