Give Everyone a Chance, Mahathir and Najib already had theirs

These UMNO people are really sanctimonious bunch of people. This overarching self-righteousness has created the arrogant Malay. The sense of birth-given entitlement has alienated them from people. Najib is entitled to be given a chance but not Nik Aziz, not Lim Guan Eng, not Khalid Ibrahim, Ustaz Azizan and never Nizar. You must be given a chance on what basis? Because you have the correct surname or because of what you can achieve?

It’s time we give a chance to people who can convince us they can achieve things for us and not give a chance on account of who you are. It should be, give everyone a chance and not Najib alone.

The haughtiness in part has also been accentuated by the infusion of behavioral traits not entirely of purely Malay origins.  This break from decency started mainly during Mahathir’s reign of power. Mahathir’s main legacy will always be the hemorrhaging of UMNO from within and the destruction of its sense of purpose. The fight for the greater good is replaced with the fight of the select few. Can we expect Najib who is cast from the same mould   bring forth anything different? Beware of empty promises uttered loosely in the karaoke setting singing stand by me.

You have UMNO leaders going around the country, asserting their birth-given entitlements. Hence give Najib( a Malay)  a chance  but no chance to Nik Aziz. Khalid Ibrahim who has increased Selangor’s cash reserves from 800m to 2000m is not to be given a chance. Lim Guan Eng who has reduced Penang’s debt from almost 700m to 30m after 4 years, is not to be given a chance. Ustaz Azizan who has managed Kedah better than all previous UMNO MBs, is not entitled to a chance. The right, not chance earned by Nizar in Perak was taken away. But Najib who has a track record of fumbling and flip-flopping exceeding that of Rip Van Winkle Badawi must be given a chance. His track record is littered with controversies- commissions demanded from the sale of Scorpene submarines, purchase of armored vehicles at UMNO prices, purchase of fighter planes and so on. A man with a track record of ruinous management and utter understanding of economics is to be given a chance. UMNO has had 50 over years of imposing ruinous policies on Malaysia and on Malays. They don’t deserve another moment of chance. We, the people MUST be given the chance to decide who can better manage Malaysia.

UMNO is now no longer the only legitimate voice of Malays. It’s not that Malays do not want UMNO. They are expressing and articulating their rejection of UMNO hegemony. UMNO is more suited to people like Tunku Aziz with his overrated sense of self-importance, natural entitlement and self-righteousness. UMNO and Tunku Aziz can’t operate in an egalitarian, democratic and proletarian setting. UMNO and Tunku Aziz are at home under the holy alliance of the bourgeois and aristocracy.

When we mocked and question them on their commitment to fight for Malay interests, they turn around to say we are questioning their Malayness. But then, that is the typical UMNO way- accuse others of doing what they are actually doing. Who is discriminating their own kind if not UMNO? The Malays outside UMNO are not accepted as Malays unless they accept UMNO. UMNO has this mental blockage to accept the reality that more Malays refuse to subscribe to the UMNO ways but NOT forsaking the Malayness. What increasingly more Malays are doing, is to reject UMNO hegemony.

They have always defined the Malay as the UMNO Malay. Malays outside UMNO and those who do not subscribe to the philosophy of UMNO, are regarded as not Malay. The missing element in the constitutional definition besides professing the religion of Islam, habitually speaks the Malay language, adheres to Malay customs, and is domiciled in Malaysia, born to Malaysian parents, is that, he or she MUST also be an UMNO member. Hence those who reject UMNO and joins another party, is considered not Malay.

The point I am leading to is- if UMNO feels it has the liberty to define who is Malay or not Malay, others must be given the same liberty to define who is and who isn’t. So why the fuss if there is anyone who refuses to acknowledge that Mahathir is a Malay in the true sense? He is  Mamak.

There was a commentator who flays me for questioning the Malay credentials of Mahathir insisting Mahathir is a constitutional Malay. I am inclined to think the commentator who of course hides behind the overrated cloak of anonymity is of the same stock of Mahathir. Even among UMNO people, Mahathir has always been considered not Malay. Can Mahathir claim beyond 2 generations that he is of pure Malay stock? He can’t, can he? But I can. I can claim beyond 5 generations of Malay stock which makes me more Malay than Mahathir. I am not going to disengage myself from my view that Mahathir wrote the Malay Dilemma as a means to lay claim of being a Malay by making himself out to sound more Malay than the ordinary Malay. The Malay dilemma is just a collection of pamphlet standard emotional outpourings that gained traction only during the heat of the moment at that time. Now, it’s an item of curiosity valued more for its souvenir-ish qualities than the substance it contains. The UMNO Malays have been duped for so long.