Siapa Melayu?

Jacqueline Ann Surin

IF it is true that Malay-rights group Perkasa was able to sabotage the government’s New Economic Model, hence obstructing much-needed reforms for the nation, what is this telling us?

It tells us that if the Barisan Nasional (BN) government is so easily held ransom by right-wing race-based groups, it is not fit to govern multiracial Malaysia. It also tells us something else about the BN government that further proves just how unqualified it is to run this country. If the BN is so easily swayed by the clamouring of “Malay rights”, often projected writ large as “Ketuanan Melayu”, it is telling the rakyat this: that despite our independence from the British after more than 50 years, the current government still subscribes to and upholds the colonial construct of race and racial superiority.

Melayu Are Stupid

Who says that it is arbitrarily wrong to state the above? How many
people even know who is a Melayu, and who is not? Do Malaysians even
know the difference? Well, take a walk with me, and see how you fare
on this educational journey.