Melayu bukan tuan tapi hamba di negara sendiri
The New Economic Policy or NEP, which was supposed to be the cure for the Malay “disease” that Mahathir and Anwar are talking about, officially ended in 1991. Mahathir was the Prime Minister then while Anwar became Finance Minister in 1991 and Deputy Prime Minister in 1993. They knew, then, about the problem of the Malay “disease”. What did they do about the problem?
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Raja Petra Kamarudin
Yesterday, prime minister-in-waiting since 1987, Anwar Ibrahim, said the Chinese are economically too strong for the Malays to defeat. Today, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the Malays are not the tuan or lords of the country. He added that the Malays are lazy and refuse to work and that is why Malaysia has seven million foreign workers to do the jobs the Malays do not want to do. Mahathir also said Malays prefer to become farmers and fishermen.
This is what Mahathir wrote in his blog today:
“Until today the Malays still have not realised. They still refuse to work. The Malays would surrender all jobs to foreigners. And foreigners flood our country. Seven million foreigners are still here. They work. What will happen to the Malays.”
“Of course, what happened to the country and the Malays before, will happen again. There are those that claim Malays are the Masters. Master of what? They are the poor, the unskilled, those that depend on the sympathy of others, is that a Master?”
“Our fortune lies in our hands. Getting upset at others won’t solve our problems. Our numbers increase but a large number of the poor cannot compete with the few that are wealthy.”
If you have ever read Mahathir’s book “The Malay Dilemma”, you would know he has said all this before back in 1970. Hence it is merely a 50-year-old story, rehashed to make it more current. And what Anwar said about the Chinese being economically far stronger than the Malays was also pointed out by Mahathir 50 years ago. Hence there is really nothing earth-shattering in Anwar’s observation. It is like telling us that water is wet. Who does not know that?
If this is the best diagnosis that PM7 and PM8 (supposedly) can give us, then for sure Malaysia is doomed.
But why whack just the Malays for the seven million foreign workers? The Chinese and Indians also refuse to do those dirty and low salary jobs. Mahathir expects the Malays to do the jobs that the Chinese and Indians refuse to do. Why not also whack the Chinese and Indians for refusing to do the dirty and low salary jobs? Does Mahathir think the Malays are lower than the Chinese and Indians?
So, Malays are failures. Malays are lazy. Malays are unskilled. Malays are unsuccessful. Malays refuse to work. Malays depend on crutches or tongkat. Malays prefer to makan dedak. Malays can be bought and bribed. The Chinese are economically stronger. The Malays cannot defeat the Chinese. Malays are not the tuan of Malaysia. Malays are hamba di negara sendiri.
From the way Mahathir and Anwar are talking, they make it sound like God played a cruel joke on humankind by creating a Malay race. Maybe we should do the world a favour by wiping out the Malays from the face of this earth like what Hitler tried to do to the Jews.
Malays are lazy, corrupt, unsuccessful, dishonest, depend on crutches or tongkat, and want free money or dedak, says Mahathir
Yes, for 50 years we have heard this same speech from Mahathir and Anwar — PM7 and PM8 respectively. Okay, for 50 years we have heard about the disease. But for 50 years you have never told us how to cure that disease. Mahathir and Anwar were both in power for a long time (and now back in power again). What have they done to cure the Malay “disease” when they were in power? What are they doing NOW to cure the Malay “disease”?
The New Economic Policy or NEP, which was supposed to be the cure for the Malay “disease” that Mahathir and Anwar are talking about, officially ended in 1991. Mahathir was the Prime Minister then while Anwar became Finance Minister in 1991 and Deputy Prime Minister in 1993. They knew, then, about the problem of the Malay “disease”. What did they do about the problem?
What did Mahathir and Anwar do about the Malay “disease” after the NEP ended in 1991?
When Mahathir talks to the Umno people, without fail he always starts his speeches by relating the history of Umno and will tell us why Umno was founded in 1946. He will talk about the penjajah or colonialists and about the British attempt to form the Malayan Union where the Malays and the Raja-Raja Melayu would lose their power and the pendatang Chinese and Indians would end up owing the country.
He will lament that the Malays were once united when they fought for Merdeka in 1957 and that was why the British gave the country independence and allowed the Malays to become the tuan of the country. Today, Mahathir will say, the Malays are no longer united. And when the Malays are divided the colonialists will end up owning the country like what happened in Melaka in 1511.
If the Malays are not careful and remain divided, they will once again lose the country to the colonialists. The Malays will no longer be the tuan of the country but will end up being hamba di negara sendiri.
That is Mahathir’s standard speech when he talks to the Malays or to Umno people and he has repeated this speech hundreds of times all over Malaysia in the last 50 years. And that is also the essence or spirit of his book, “The Malay Dilemma”.
We all know the Chinese own Malaysia. We have known that since before Merdeka. So what has Mahathir and Anwar done about it?
So why is Mahathir bringing this up again? Why talk about the Chinese owning the country economically while the Malays are lazy, unsuccessful, failures, and prefer not to work but to just receive handouts and free money? More importantly, while talking about how bad and negative the Malays are, what has Mahathir and Anwar done about it back then they were in power in the 1980s and 1990s? And what are they doing about it now other than moan, groan, complain and bitch about the matter?
Okaylah, so the Malays are everything bad and nothing good. The non-Malays have been saying this for 50 years. Mahathir and Anwar have been saying this for 50 years. So, what now? Where do we go from here? How do we correct this? Do you have a solution? Or are you the problem rather than the solution?
