It should be seen as a human rights issue.

a) Refusing to wear songkok,
b) Raising the issue of Social Contract,
c) Immediate abolition of positive discrimination policies

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Why should the DAP want to “shun the Malay electorate”?? Its leaders are not that stupid as to entertain such thoughts. They know that if every Chinese were to vote for the DAP and every Malay were to vote for UMNO, they would lose out.

The issue of Social Contract is another way of looking for a consensus. It is an attempt to get back to basics, if you will. Interestingly enough, both sides managed to formulate their definition of the ‘social contract’ to advance their own cause.

Assimilation is anathema to the Chinese. Unfortunately, the wearing of the songkok is seen by most as acceptance of the cultural superiority of the Malays – with some Malays seeing this as part of the Islamisation process. None would, of course, be stupid as to really think that by forcing the non-Malays to wear songkok at official and state functions would make Muslims out of the Chinese.

For comparison, Indonesian Chinese put on the songkok as part of their national attire without losing their Chineseness. Why can’t the Malaysian Chinese do the same – unless of course the songkok issue has been caught up with issues of religion and recently the “Ketuanan Melayu” bull.

He’d do better if he gives some attention to details like names – it is Tunku and not Tuanku. I’ll leave you to figure out the difference.

Interesting but misguided.

The pronton may be as best as the KOREA HYUNDAI.

We may have the best financial centre in Asia.

Many Malays do not know that in the 1950 Malaya is among the richest Asia countries in the world.

And all this fortune created by the Chinese in Tin Mine and the india in the rubber estate.

If there is no blocking of NEP we have already developed this land as the best country in the SOUTH EAST ASIA.

It is very difficult to allow the capable people to perform.

The NEP is blocking this country to grow in high speed.

As written to you before YB Lim, actually we dont really care who going to be the Prime Minister or Chief Minister or Menteri Besar so long as these leaders are fair, just, clean (to certain extend as most are filled with dirt) and far sighted. Someone who can lead this nation to a greater high while keep the unity among all races. Whether Chinese or not is not important as at present moment as the majority still unprepare for sudden change like in the US. Probably need another 100 yrs to see a PM of another race be it Indian or Chinese etc. So at present moment DAP should learn to walk one step at a time to build the foundation of trust and confident from other races.

There is no one simple antidote to all the ‘ills’ we are facing here. It will be a combination of many factors.

Having read to this very paragraph, I can’t agree with the author -Benjamin more.

In US for example, more than 100 years back, without the courage and doyen of great leaders like Abraham Lincoln for a start, I can’t see how the blacks are liberated from slavery.

The racist institutionalized system did not end there and the segregationist system continues to beset the blacks.

The inference : The whites in US came to defend and repel all racist laws and Ordinances that we see US today.

DAP and PAS can be compare for one similarities – stupidity.

Pre-eminent leader like PAS’ Nik Aziz and DAP’s stalwart Lim Kit Siang and being propagated by the BN as bogeymen to the Chinese and Malays wherein in actuality a noble man like Nik Aziz for his Islamization are merely rhetorical stupidities and the same apply to LKS for you relentless belligerence whenever a smidgen of superiority of Islam came into limelight.

You should have played one thing -”the game” well. Noticably, your admiration of US President elect Barrack Obama (signifying the first colored leader would be replicated in Malaysia) during his campaign
often stonewalled the issue of race- his own paternal race -blacks whenever being asked whether to alleviate the status of blacks in America.

Obama would not have done it without the help of the Whites – Gregory craig and many other whites who selflessly made him the first American black President.

You should have let Anwar Ibrahim take charge, allowing him to be your back-seat-driver at least knowing the reality of the moment that we are like US more than years back, talking about race, not to mention the stupidity and unthinkable of wanting a non-Malays PM.

Another thought, they once called Hitler a madman, others call him an idiot- he should have stir the US to fight against the Soviet Union, the 2 Superpowers at that time.

Think smart Y.B. as many Malays are calling you a dinosaur as you deserve that atavistic accolade.

Else we would be like a fool, they may not appreciate you but may laugh at you why are you stupid like a fool again.

The NEP have turned the Malays as a pirates among us.

This NEP supposed end in 1990…and they come out same methods with difference name…with no end…

Please open you eyes and minds to listen the BN says….don’t be a fool again…to believe them what they says….as long as the NEP policy not abolish….there is still like pirates among us…rob off others right…even get threaten …

This privilege given by the rulers….and people can bestrayed the rulers abolish their rights in the constitution.

Can you trust this people?

Be care what they say and what you hear.

In order to form the government and to lead the country, any political party need to appeal to the majority. I totally agreed with Ben in order for this country to change for the better, the majority in this country need to have a paradigm change in the form of their mindset and belief system. And that is the biggest task, if not the most challenging task in hand for DAP. You have in one hand the majority who may not have adequate understanding and level of education to really comprehend what is good for the country, and at the same time an ill intended ruling party instilling the negative propaganda at all times through the state – controlled
media that it monopolise.

It is a big task ahead, but a small step will lead to a quantum leap. It takes more than 200 years for USA to elect a president regardless of skin colour, How long will it take for Malaysia ?

hear hear!

Equality and equity should be the core values of the people, and affirmative actions should only be used to help those who truly need it. But here, various policies of affirmative actions are used as a political tool to grab the supports of localites for the corrupted politicians’ agenda. That’s why malay rights is issues which are brought up again and again by UMNO in their fright tactics, but not the orang asli’s rights.

Not sure if my early post has been uploaded, but it seems to be that benjamin sounds more like a political strategist but not a political scientist. He covered strategies to garner support from the malays, but did not offer a viable solution on economical, educational, ideological and sociological aspects.