Let’s start all over and prosper together

UMNO celebrated its 62 years of existence on May 11. The country was restructured after the May 13 tragedy.
As a nation, we are still confused about our status and direction where pertinent issues which have been taken for granted became obvious on March 8. The polemic of “Ketuanan Melayu” resurfaced when the whole idea of nation building was about helping each other to achieve a common goal.
Malaysia is very unique. It is the only country in the world where its Constitution is designed around a particular race, the Malays. The non-Malays completed the circle with a “social understanding” which can intrigue some but seems to work for the past 51 years.
The May 13 incident becomes a ghostly image from the past of how disarray can happen. We thought we had sorted the “racial issues” but unfortunately the whole nation went astray somehow along the way. The national unity objective was never really fulfilled although we projected to the world that we have it solid.
It is unfortunate that the Malays produced by NEP opportunities did not educate their offspring on its concept. The reason of elevating the then backward Malays backfired when the whole political structure depended upon the “special privilege” rather than striving on it.
The non-Malays too neglected their responsibility by enjoying the perks of collaboration which generated more wealth than they could imagine.
The current young generation never understood the reasons for the biasness of the system towards a particular race.We’ve always been told to achieve individual excellence and success; never a collaborative effort towards nation building.We’ve been confused with the Bangsa Malaysia concept that appeared good in paper but never in its implementation.
Let's start over ... educate, educate and educate. Let's build this nation together by really helping those who are in need.If it is the Malays who are the least fortunate as proven by statistics, it should not be just the Malays but the Chinese, Indian and other ethnicities should aim to build them up and vice versa.

1 comment:

mad22 said...: In world history on racial clashes, there have been always two types of stories that contrasted each other.

Fellow survived comrades of World War I who turned overnight to genocidal racist in the Serbia, close neighbours who massacred the whole family in Rwanda, the poor Javaneses that looted the poor Chinese farmers who looked physically exactly like them are the few horrors I know. One the other side of the coin are the touching stories of sheltering neightbours of the victimised Chinese during racial cleansing in Malaysia and Indonesia.

The question is how can a human has two split attitudes, e.g. generousity and anger, towards the same person?; 10:44 pm