MP seeks to raise latest racist episode in Parliament
By Clara Chooi, The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 29 — Parliament today received a motion notice on yet another racist incident, this time involving a teacher who allegedly uttered racial slurs against while invigilating for the SPM examination in a school in Negri Sembilan last week.
The motion was filed by Er Teck Hwa (DAP-Bakri) with the Speaker’s office this morning.
In his notice, Er noted that the issue should be debated in the House as it was specific, urgent and of public interest.
“A drastic and effective action should be taken to prevent similar incidents from recurring,” he said.
In the incident on November 24, a school teacher, reportedly from a secondary school in Port Dickson, had allegedly uttered derogatory remarks against Chinese and Indian students when they arrived late to the examination hall for their SPM examination.
According to reports in the Chinese media, the teacher had censured the students for their tardiness by telling the Chinese students to return to China and the Indian students to India if they failed to understand her instructions in Bahasa Malaysia.
