Is Dr Mahathir a racist?
No. Mahathir is not a racist. He is a Mothafarking Racist Mamak.
The only difference is Utusan couldnt make up its mind whether it wants to be 1Melayu or 1 Bumi when it has been obvious its call was to Malay political parties and organizations. Its also known that as far as UMNO is concerned, the term 'bumiputra' means only Malays or more specifically Peninsula UMNO Malays, and doesnt in practice include Ibans, Kadazans, Muruts, Bidayuh, etc.
Thus I wonder why Utusan included 1Bumi to the more important 1Melayu. Maybe it sought some degree of justified rights under the official description of Malays as bumiputeras.
Anyway, Malay unity was touted when the March 2008 tsunami hit Malaysia and dramatically changed the political landscape. PAS was immensely attracted to the clarion call for Malays (from both sides of politics) to unite to ensure Malay supremacy in federal and state government.
In Selangor the sweetener for PAS was the MBs post. Recall also the UMNO-PAS meeting at the Terengganu palace, though Nik Aziz stated that he was ambushed by UMNO. Indeed it was only Pak Haji Niz Aziz who out a stop to Pak Haji Hadi Awang and his deputy president Nasharuddins keenness to take up UMNOs appeal for ethnic unity.
Its not an unusual UMNO tactic when they are in political retreat, that of instigating fear among the Malays of the Chinese taking political control of Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, and hatred of same yellow skin peril by reminding the Malays of (true or otherwise) Chinese aggressive economic prowess, avarice, arrogance, rudeness and disrespect to the Malay rulers, etc. Dr Mahathir had taken this path several times.
Both Dr Kua and Josh Hong have called Dr Mahathir a racist, though I wonder whether the old man (confident, intelligent and politically astute as he continues to be) could well be suffering from some form of depression, where he taboleh tahan the very thought of Chinese milli! onaires walking this Malay land while Malays are only chauffeurs to those Chinese in their own land. This imagined picture depresses him as no other scene does.
Stuff like the recent DAP victory in Sarawak fills him with dread and nightmare scenes, perhaps worsening his depression.
I fear his illness could be a result of him trapped in a time zone of the early 1940s, 50s and 60s. He cant, wont believe that under Tun Razak and him in particular, the Malays have done very well, very well indeed, benefitting enormously from official affirmative policies and programs.
Corruption and unaccountability helps too. The Auditor Generals annual report has year after year brought out horror stories, which have never been effectively addressed. These make you wonder what other atrocities in government programs, contracts and whatnots the Auditor General was not able to put in its annual reports.
There has also been the continuous bleating and wailing about the as yet unattained 30% equity, when we know from Malay sources that their equity has passed the 45% mark. Dr M himself frequently laments about this issue, to justify why the NEP must continue. Of course there are still overwhelming statistics of Malay poverty, just as there are of Indians, Aborigines, non-Malay bumputeras (Ibans, Kadazans, etc), and to a lesser extent, Chinese. But Dr M wont admit the NEP benefits only his UMNO boys and girls, and have marginalized the non-UMNO Malays and bumiputeras, and the Aborigines.
Sometimes I wonder whether he has been traumatized by the failures of his blue-eyed boys, people in Renong, MAS, Bank Bumi, Bank Negara and various other money mills that he had entrusted to them in the hope theyd churned out Malay millionaires and billionaires to walk the land as those Chinese ones do. I wonder whether he resents the Chinese for his blue-eyed boys failures.
Sometimes I wonder whether due to above failures, he cant trust his UMNO boys and girls to succeed, fearing that without his strong guidin! g hands they will regress to being chauffeurs and laundry maids.
Sometimes I wonder whether he is over insuring, that he wants to see a Malay equity of 99% before he can rest assured that the millionaires who walk this land will be mostly Malays.
Sometimes I just wonder why the f* I am wondering?
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