This article is to invite all of us to think and re-evaluate the values we hold until now. The Malays in the new century is faced with a new challenge, built upon the foundations of guilt. The guilt in context is not a wrongdoing or regret, but focused on the in-depth feeling we all have for receiving something we didn’t work for; our Malay rights. The post-independence generation of Malays who inherited Bumiputra rights is condemned for protecting it.
We are forced to feel guilty that we’re given the opportunity to become the sole heir to the country that was rightly ours. We are afraid to incite unspeakable racial issues even though the others scream their lungs out at our so-called despicable behaviour; “Melayu malas” and “Pemerintahan Ketuanan Melayu”. We give way, we allow ourselves to be kicked and gutted, as our guilt slowly make its way into our psyche. We drink the poison given to us in a gilded cup, served in a manner that is politically correct, but morally wrong.
Save our children’s mind as they laud the superiority of children who go to Chinese Schools and learn Mandarin Language as their language of preference. We are dubbed intolerant and racists without them even realizing that the practice of social ‘castes’ was heavily practiced in the origins of India and China. We are forced to subjugate our religious conscience since the others do not feel they should tolerate morning Azan. They say we push them away when their children at school have to sit quietly and listen to others say the morning ‘doa’. I wonder how do our children feel if we sent them to a chinese school where they serve pork in the canteens with no other choice? We dim our souls to cater to those who speak loudest, not the wisest.
Are we quick to point our fingers to the racial tendency of Ah Long operators, illegal DVD peddlers, suicidal tendencies and errant porn video shop operators, as clearly as they shout out issues of Malay rape cases and incest? Have they not seen our tolerance to their slandering words? And do we sit quietly and wallow in shame as they crown us more titles by the day?
We endure so much guilt that we hide our real selves and try to not to appear Malay in our thoughts, views and requests. In order to become the so-called “new-generation” Malays, we discard our culture, our history, our responsibility to protect our children’s future and our inheritance. The damaging psychological effects of our guilt as Malays are running deeper by the day, amplified by continuous political media warfare.
Being Malay has never been more shameful and unpopular as it is today. It is painful for us to accept Malay majority quotas and be judged by it. We beat ourselves to retribution to be rid of the social stigma, endowed by those who hate our rights. This is the psychological ills that have been fed to our children and us by politicized media.
It is unfortunate that the guilt is already inside us, eating our minds and not one of us is spared. It is probably scandalous to say that a religious political party which used to be strong, now bow cowering as the weight of guilt take its toll. It is inherently fashionable to be in opposition nowadays to be seen as non-conforming modern Malay rather than take the taunt of being “kuno” and accept our constitution.
Are we ready to undo the constitution that our forefathers have lived and died for? Were our forefathers guilty to ensure that their children’s future is protected from those who wish to enslave us as the British did? What the current Australians did to the native aborigines? The South African ‘Mat Salleh’s did to the native africans? If they were not guilty, then why should we bare the blame? And the most practical question to ask is “why now?”
Relieve us of this guilt and take pride in our souls. We should no longer carry this weight and should be proud of our race. We were a big part of the leadership that brought this country to its Independence, and there is no need for us to feel shame and guilt to claim what is right for the Malays. Finally, it is to be remembered that the day we loose our rights, is the very day we turned our backs on our very own selves.
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