Less equal than others

KUALA LUMPUR: A recent statement by Pasir Salak MP Datuk Tajudin Abdul Rahman in Dewan Rakyat has sparked the ire of some and the MCA will be sending a complaint letter to the Deputy Prime Minister seeking disciplinary action.

MCA Youth secretary-general Dr Wee Ka Siong said the movement, together with Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP) Youth and the Federation of Malaysian Clans and Guilds Youth Associations, condemned the statement by Datuk Tajudin that all non-Malays were descendants of immigrants to Malaysia.

Read the report here.

Tajudin*

People like Six-Million-Dollar-Man Tajudin and Hamidah Osman must be glad that the news these days have been distracted with allegations against Anwar and Najib - and their racist statements have taken a back seat.

Tajudin was quoted saying that not long after it was reported that he is not agreeable "...to increase the ratio of scholarships to non-bumiputra students" (see here).

So do "descendants of immigrants" have lessor rights? Aren't all Malaysians equal? Or are some are just more equal than the rest? After 50 years of independence, the racial divide is still pronounced. We are still Malays, Chinese, Indians etc., not Malaysians.

Here's something said by a BN MP (of which i am in full agreement with):-

Datuk Dr Fong Chan Onn (BN - Alor Gajah) said the initiatives outlined in the Ninth Malaysia Plan to counter socio-economic imbalances among the people should not be ethnic-based.

He added that the Government should instead tackle the problem of socio-economic inequalities in areas where the problem persisted.

“The Government should do away with ethnic-based poverty eradication programmes and focus directly on the target groups such as the poor in the rural and urban areas, where the majority comprised the Malays and bumiputras in Sabah and Sarawak,” he said.

Dr. Fong*

That makes so much sense - help those who are really in need!!!

Oh, by the way, the Malays were not the original inhabitants of this land. They too were descendants of "immigrants", aren't they?

Malaysia boleh!

*Pics taken from Wikipedia