The Maginalized Race

Latest hot news in the newspaper: Malays are marginalized in Penang!

So, here we go again. Penang have been made the scapegoat by the politicians again to divert the people's attention. Now, the debate would be whether the Malays are really marginalized or not. Malaysian's, correction, the Malaysia Medias seems to have very short memories and easily distracted. Our Medias, intentionally or not, have always been played right into the hands of the politicians, who can't wait for their chances to appear as the champions of their tribes.

Now, instead of asking PETRONAS what happened in Chad, you see Politicians hanging banners and mocking other politicians to voice out the injustice done to the marginalized Malays.

When will we wake up? I remembered that recently our government have started an initiative to establish Malaysia as a South East Asia Regional Education Hub. How come no one in the media have ask the government, what happened to the initiative? How come in the recent Newsweek Top 100 Most Global Universities Ranking, there is not even one Malaysia University featured in the list? To add salt to injury, even our neighbour down south (who has had the well established reputation in Malaysia for marginalizing Malays) have a couple of Universities ranked in the list!

If we continue to bicker amongst ourselves about what percentages of economy stakes are being held by what races, about whether the lucrative government contracts are being properly awarded to a bumiputra contractors, we will be over-taken by Vietnam (whose pepper exports have already caused much suffering of our fellow Sarawakian farmers.)

We are now living in the globalization era. If we can't unite and if we still bicker about racial issues, how are we going to compete in this cut-throat era? Don't be fooled by self-serving politicians who will not hessitate to stir up racial sentiments to gain political mileage. How many times have we seen the same crops of politicians using the same tricks to divert our attentions from issues that raised questions about their integrities?

If our universities still offers admission based on skin colours when others are offering scholarships to our top young brains, how will reverse brain drain be happening?

Now is the time, now is the time to look beyond our skin and our religion, or all of us, Malaysians, might really be ended up as a marginalized race.