And how the 'DEB' and 'Ketuanan Melayu" benefit the non-Malays in Malaysia more than the Malays!
By A MALAYSIAN
I take a bit of delight in wanting to celebrate Barack Obama’s celebrated win over John McCain who lost handsomely, due largely to the wrong choices made by his party. Maybe it was their idea in the first place to have such a person so Obama could win as handsomely as he did.
Or, most likely the Republicans did not have anyone who was capable of being nominated as they are all cut from the same cloth as the Bushes - useless to the core.
There have been some Malaysians who have posted their comments on how Obama was nominated by his party and went on to win the presidency. I find them to be wanting and one-sided because those who have written them are absolutely biased.
They said Obama would not have become what he is if he were a Malaysian because of ‘racial discrimination’. Yet, in Malaysia, the Malays are economically worse off than the Chinese.
The ‘Dasar Ekonomi Baru’ and ‘Ketuanan Melayu’ have not benefitted the Malays; they have benefitted the Chinese more.
When will the Chinese give some credit to the Malays for being backward and not too insistent on clinging to slogans and doing nothing?
If the Malays had been insistent and did not care for the well-being of the Chinese, the economy of the Chinese would not be what it is now.
So I suspect there is an element of ‘reverse psychology’ involved here when those Chinese who are successful in many important areas, especially economy and education now turn around to charge the Malays for neglecting them.
When their ancestors were their age, they were carrying night-soil and working as menial laborers, right up to the 1960s, before the 13 May, 1969 tragedy. The situation for the Malays before, as it is now, has not changed that much.
What we hear are more shouts of ‘Ketuanan Melayu’; the empty slogan used by some Umno upstarts to get support from their members.
Many non-Malays have also written to say that Obama would also most likely be arrested under the ISA and be subjected to a host of things. But unfortunately, all of them were not truthful and are racists to the core.
Please accept this as fact: if Michael Jackson were a Malaysian, he too, would not have become an international entertainer, but will mostly be restricted to selling a few thousand discs and winning the Anugerah Industri Musik (AIM) award each year and nothing more other than to be invited to sing on local television and be seen wondering in the Chow Kit area.
And for that matter, even Albert Einstein would have to be contented to becoming a professor at any of our public universities.
Please expect to get more of the same tired remarks and comments from the same racists in Malaysia. There are not many of them, but they are vocal only if they do not sign their names and post them in websites where they are safe and can continue to express their racists remarks.
The truth is, Barack Hussein Obama Jr, managed to gain the support and sympathy of the majority of the American voters because he fashioned himself as an American, through and through.
He did not dare trust his Kenyan background.
The truth is that Obama does not speak and write in the language of his ancestors in Kenya but of the majority in America – which is English and not Kenyan.
Obama does not celebrate festivals of his ancestors in Kenya or Africa, but those of America and was also last seen sending his daughter, Shasha to attend a Halloween party.
If Obama is a Chinese in America, born to a Taiwan, China or Hong Kong father and an American mother and who chooses to speak in Mandarin and celebrates festivals of the Chinese, chances are he will still be stuck in the rut in any of the Chinatowns in America operating a Chinese restaurant.
And chances are, too, he won’t dare speak up on American politics, much less on world politics since his worldview is so limited and confined to the happenings in Chinatown.
But fortunately, Obama fashions himself as an American through and through, despite his Kenyan background. He is a true-blooded American like the others in the land of immigrants.
In Malaysia, the Chinese and Indians still prefer to speak in their native languages and celebrate festivals of their ancestors and pretend to be still back in their Motherlands, while also pretending to be Malaysian.
So no wonder, the Chinese and Indian leaders in Malaysia are often looked down upon by the Malays. And no wonder, too, the issue of Ketuanan Melayu are often brought up by the non-Malays.
It is not just the few Malays who are bringing up this issue, but the few strident non-Malay leaders and the other individuals who write comments anonymously and post them in blogs or websites.
The Malays have no need to feel threatened by them. The non-Malays are fewer in numbers after all. The non-Malays shouldn't be threatened by the Malays, they are still economically better off.
There is a lot of understanding amongst the majority of Malaysians in Malaysia, except for these small groups who make the headlines often with their diatribes.
