Tuesday, May 07, 2013
I am not surprise to read such blatant racist remarks on popular media in Malaysia post PRU 13, especially from some Malay quarters. If before, that ugly sentiment is hidden, masqueraded as the accepted face of patriotism, this time the beast is out in the open. We know who they are, we can see their faces and we know their names. Their inabilities to appreciate the poisons they have spurted are worrying, as if racism is normal .. as if it is virtuous .. and should be an accepted mental state if you want to be a "true malay". After living abroad for more than 14 years I have seen the ugly faces of racism, I know what it means to live as a minority and how hurtful it can be when your right to exist is questioned. Those Malaysians that you hurled your venomous abuses at, they are Malaysians whether you like it or not. Together with you and your father, and your father's father, they have built this country to become what it is now .. they pay taxes .. they are born and bred and die on the same land that you are standing on. 56 years we have grown up together as a nation, 56 years of history of nation-building coloured not only by one race but three (and more), 56 years of pains and joys felt not by one one race but three (and more), and 56 years of shared experience. PRU 13 has chipped away a great chunk of that race barrier, it should be hailed as great milestone and should be celebrated .. don't let those racists ruin that momentum !
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