I want a Bangsa Malaysia

There is an old Malay saying “Gajah depan mata tak nampak, kuman seberang laut nampak”.

Shahrir Samad was quoted yesterday as saying “it did not make sense to ask those who were strong to reduce their strength for the purpose of having a so-called level playing field.”

I though this was always the BN, opps ...UMNO’s goverment’s policy.

I don’t know about you but I always feel the level and quality of our education system, from primary up to the universities was brought down, so that more Bumiputras can graduate.

Malaysian local universities are already known as ‘graduate churning factories’. Quantity over quality. Then they complaint about graduates not having soft skills, no able to speak English, no confidence. And when it is reported that there are lots of unemployed graduates, they burnt more moneys to have more trainings for these unemployable graduates. And when that also fails, they do another stupid thing. Recruit them into the public service. Then they complaint about the ineffecient public service.

Ask any teachers, they will tell you how public exams are getting easier by the year. Why? My opinion is so that the non Malays will not get smarter and the Malays will think they are smarter.

Then theres the NEP. The strength of the non Malays in business are weakened in the name of helping the Malaysa. What about that? Isnt it true that goverment contracts are deliberately not given to non bumiputras so that they wont grow so much. Isnt this the same thing?

But those are my thought.

But back to Shahrir’s comment.

They are not asking UMNO to weaken itself. They are just asking UMNO to stop being a fool. No more 'bodoh-sombong' attitute. Why must we accept 'ketuanan UMNO'? Because non Malays are second class citizens here in Malaysia? We are asking for a genuine partnership. A partnership where not everything you say is right and what everybody else says is wrong if you dont agree to it. We dont want your scraps. We dont want your leftovers. Accept that BN's component parties weaknesses is a direct result from UMNO's strength.

Accept that. And there will be a hope for a real bangsa Malaysia.