Letters
by A Parent
I hope you can publish this in your blog. The publication can be an effective deterrent for future. Your blog has helped lots of cases in this way.
I am parent of Form 1 student of Sek Men Taman Hi-Tech in Kulim.
I attended the school Sports Day yesterday (Feb. 4) and I am just shocked at what I saw.
The Malaysian government started the National Service Program, with the objective of racial integration, my foot. That 3-month stint is just a show to make money when the situation in schools are totally different.
This is what I saw yesterday.
Very few Indians participated in the sports event
Indians are supposed to be good in running, but there were very few, I asked the boys. And they said the reason is because the final selection was done on Thaipusam Day. Although it was not a public holiday, Indians took leave and went to temples that day. The school purposely chose that day to select the final participants. That was purposely done.
March Past
It was racially divided. The army/police cadet was 100% Malays whereas Cadet Bomba was 100% non-Malays.The army cadet uniform was perfect, 100% given, whereas the Bomba was crazy, some wore T-Shirts, different kinds of shoes because all the cost need to be borne by the parents. Why?
I really felt very saddened at what happened. It is a rubbish to say the Education Ministry is looks into ways to integrate the races, but in fact they are purposely segregating them.
Is this what the government say ‘We care for all races, we are fair to all’????
#1 by waterfrontcoolie on Thursday, 7 February 2008 - 12:01 am
Forcing someone to follow some rituals sounds really STUPID!!!The ALMIGHTY must surely feel insulted. HE has given the human kind the better brain of the animal world and yet having believed in HIM, we also cheated HIM by having those who have had doubts to pretend that they part of the set-up! What BALONEY!!
When would the human race learn that the ultimate judge would be the CREATOR himself? IF it is so, let him/her do as he/she pleases and leave it to HIM to decide! It sounds pretty hollow when some one much ‘younger’ tries to teach the truth of belief. Those with older believes certainly require more than just just the claim: This is MADE in HEAVEN by the CREATOR HIMSELF!
#2 by Raitman on Thursday, 7 February 2008 - 12:08 am
# DarkHorse Says:
Today at 21: 13.46 (2 hours ago)
“To say that ALL Malaysians are racists are a sweeping statement. Who are the REAL RACISTS today? â€
We are all more racists than we’re willing to admit. This racist mindset if you will, protected and nurtured by our laws and our values should not be surprising. It is a matter of degree. The values have been internalized in our thought processes such that we do not need to be conscious of them ourselves.["WE", DOES THAT INCLUDE ME AND YOU?]
The use of racial profiling in everyday conversations is a good manifestation of what I mean.[IS THIS A RACIST BLOG AS WELL?]
But I would say there are two types of ‘racism’ and ‘racist’ behavior that Malaysians exhibit. One is passive and the other active, if you will. One is grounded more in culture and expediency necessitated by the degree and intensity of our interactions in everyday life existing mainly in our subconsciousness, the other grounded in the conscious desire to be different and to compete. I am no sociologist and so we’ll just leave it at that.[PLEASE ANSWER THIS QUESTION HONESTLY AND TRUTHFULLY, ARE YOU ARE RACIST? AND WHICH OF THE 2 TYPES ARE YOU?]
It is into this mindset that racist bigots and politicians tap into each time they make their populist appeal.[DOES THAT INCLUDE UNCLE LIM, GUAN ENG, KARPAL, KULA AND OTHER DAP LEADERS AND SUPPORTERS TOO?]
The earlier we recognize and accept it, the easier the job will be in the process to dismantle the racial barriers that have been built around us.[HOW TO DISMANTLED THE RACIAL BARRIERS THAT HAVE BEEN BUILD AROUND US WHEN ALL MALAYSIANS ARE RACISTS? AND WHO IS GOING TO DO THE DISMANTLING FOR ALL THE MALAYSIANS RACISTS?]
I may dream of an ‘era’ that has gone by, but I am not a dreamer.[DREAM ON?]
#3 by hanuman on Thursday, 7 February 2008 - 12:18 am
“WE” (I dont need to spell it out) in Malaysia are living in dangerous times !!!
1st One party UMNO led government is a BIGOT
2nd Now “WE” (I dont need to spell it out) are facing RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION !!!
#4 by freedom to speak on Thursday, 7 February 2008 - 1:20 am
Please don’t center your thoughts on ‘racist attitudes’.
Let that be done by the ‘racist’ themselves.
All of us her should instead think of ways to unite our glaring divisions.
Work towards correcting the root of the problem and don’t waste time harping on the effects and results of 50 years of crap.
The time for elections is near.
Have we made up our minds yet?
#5 by scorpian6666 on Thursday, 7 February 2008 - 1:32 am
Cut it out! This is no place to outsmart everyone here!
Get to the point…The school is giving birth to rasism and we’ve got to voice it out to stop it as least to let all malaysian know about it.
I would urge all parents to ask their children to boycott all school extra activities.
Think Dap should take some kind of lead here…
#6 by DarkHorse on Thursday, 7 February 2008 - 2:37 am
“How to dismantled the racial barriers that have been build around us when all Malaysians are racists? And how is going to the dismantling for all the Malaysians racists”
A ‘new’ Malaysian must emerge from among our leaders to lead us in a new direction. For the rest of us it begins with the knowledge and awareness of our own shortcomings, our own flaws – and a mindset that decades of indoctrination have nurtured and given rise to. That would be the first step towards the creation of a new Malaysian and a new Malaysia.
There is hope yet says leaders like Obama. Hope never dies.
#7 by Raitman on Thursday, 7 February 2008 - 2:56 am
“There is hope yet says leaders like Obama. Hope never dies.”
I couldn’t agreed with you more. Thanks mate.
But I think ‘new’ Malaysians have already emerged among us. It’s you and me, mate. ;)
#8 by sotong on Thursday, 7 February 2008 - 6:02 am
Thanks to our so called ” leaders “, we are made to be racists in varying degree.
Decades of bad leadership and role models are destroying a multi racial and religious country eg. dangerous behaviours like aggression, threat, bullying and intimidation were constantly used by some politicians to achieve narrow, short sighted, personal and damaging objectives.
#9 by chiakchua on Thursday, 7 February 2008 - 9:11 pm
We had all become racist because of the ‘divide and rule’ tactic practised by UMNO after the May 13 1969,
#10 by limkamput on Friday, 8 February 2008 - 11:59 am
I am a little puzzle here. UMNO and the Malays in general are fighting for an Islamic Malay Malaysia. The Non-Malays are essentially struggling to be a part of Malaysia. Who is racist here? If by fighting to be a part of Malaysia is racist, then I think DAP ought to close shop long ago.
We ought to differentiate slightly the role of Obama in the US and DAP leaders in Malaysia. In the US, the GOP (the Republicans) does not have an official policy that discriminate the non-White. Perhaps we should compare Obama’s struggle now with that of Martin Luther King or Mandela during apartheid South Africa. If DAP is labelled “racist†in any way, that label is legitimate under the circumstance.
#11 by ChinNA on Saturday, 9 February 2008 - 6:59 am
1. Independence had united us.
2. Politics is dividing us.
3. Globalisation will kill us.
3 thoughts that crossed my mind today.
#12 by boobear on Saturday, 19 April 2008 - 9:58 pm
Bring in PRakyat to sapu the Federal Govt and we can have a proper, fair execution of education matters at school level.
As it is, schools “can’t” invite our Wakil Rakyat to school coz “priority” to be given to Minister of Education, his officers, State Education Director, his oficers etc….