By : JOE FERNANDEZ
WHY are the Chinese being
labelled racists for rejecting MCA, a one race party, and for rejecting the
Chinese-based, led and dominated Gerakan and Supp?
Did Obama call for a
National Unity Consultative Council after the elections? Did he blame the old
whites as racists who were against his presidency?
Did the Republican Party
blame the blacks and other non-whites as racists who were against a white being
president "in his own country"?
It's not the done thing to
blame the Chinese for the great divide in Malaysia.
The honeymoon is over.
The multiracial urban areas,
barring some squatter areas wooed by Hindraf Makkal Sakthi, and the ethnic
rural electorate are no longer on the same page.
The rich states and poor
states are no longer on the same page.
The Islamists and other
Muslims are no longer on the same page.
The Christians and the rural
Muslims are no longer on the same page.
The non-Muslims and the
rural Muslims are no longer on the same page.
The Orang Asal and the rural
Muslims are no longer on the same page.
The local Muslims and the
illegal immigrants are no longer on the same page.
Urban Malaya and Borneo,
except for the limited urban areas, are no longer on the same page.
Malaysians are against the
illegal immigrants and other foreigners flooding their country.
The majority of Malaysians
want Umno and BN out of Putrajaya.
They have rejected
race-based parties and racism and racists.
The Malays will no longer
root for one party, Umno, because they are "confused" to the extent
they don't even bother to register as voters and when they do they don't turn
up, and if they do turn up in the urban areas, they don't vote for Umno.
Umno should see the writing
on the wall, the death of one-race based parties in the BN and the death of the
concept, and open up to all ethnic groups to re-invent itself and survive at
least in the Opposition.
It should stop harping on
the Malays unless it continues to harbour a death wish.
It should stop blaming the
Chinese for the seeds of destruction it harbours.
Prime Minister Najib Abdul
Razak apparently believes that man lives by bread alone.
He has pledged to step up
his US$ 444 billion Transformation Programme.
The people will reject it if
Transformation is an euphemism for the ruling elite to run up the National Debt
Burden even further to facilitate them putting their hands in the National
Cookie Jar to feather their own nests under the guise of bringing so-called
development -- still water, electricity and schools in rural Borneo after 50
years of Malaysia -- to the people.
In hindsight, it's not
surprising that Najib signed the MOU with Hindraf.
His entire approach in the
run-up to the 13th General Election has been to try and bribe his way back into
power with the people's money, and driven by his "Let's Make a Deal"
thinking, "Lu Tolong Gua, Gua Tolong Lu" (You Help Me, I Help You).
What a cheap bugger!
Hindraf, for example, is not
about being intimidated and bribed into submission. It's about human rights and
equal rights.
The 13th GE has proven that
former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's remarks are worse than useless and
merely provide cheap entertainment for the racist and mainstream media.
The power of accurate
observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it ... George
Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist and writer (1856 - 1950)
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