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Some of the biggest and most fundamental problems of this country can only be solved by the Malays.
I know it sounds unfair, but let me try to explain to the best of my limited ability.
I know it sounds unfair, but let me try to explain to the best of my limited ability.
The way I see it, the Malays (and by extension, the country, too) are being held hostage by, ironically, the so-called special position of the ethnic group, and the privileges that come along with it.
You may or may not have tasted those privileges, but that's besides the point. They're there on the back of your neck like a birthmark. You're born into it.
We all know who profited and keep profiting from this "specialness." I doubt it's you. Or maybe you did too, like, scholarships, a good job in the civil service, or GLCs. Believe you me, nobody holds that against you. But you know that's not the kind of profit i'm talking about.
maybe you still need them in order to go a little higher, maybe you don't. maybe you're embarrassed by them, maybe you resent them for depriving you of the sense of achievement you so deserve. I don't know. I'm not a Malay. I don't know how it feels.
Or it could be simpler than that, maybe you fear losing your constructed ethnic identity, or maybe they're just too good to let go of. Again, I don't know. It's impossible for me to know.
What I know is this: IF, just IF, you renounced those privileges, even just symbolically, for you, and your posterity, then you have liberated yourself from it. And if enough of you do it, it may just become something else.
Now I'm not suggesting you demand the government to get rid of those provisions. I'm simply suggesting you say, "look, I've had the helps i needed, thank you very much, i dont need them anymore, neither do my children. I'm good now, give our shares to those who need them."
I know many many many of you don't need them, or don't need them anymore. So make them irrelevant, or redundant, at least where you are concerned.
I apologise if i misspoke. I'm a bit riled up.
