An Opinion piece by Adli Ghzi that I read. An opinion piece by myself.

Two days ago I read an opinion piece on themalaysianinsider.com by  Adli Ghzi titled "The overbearing cockiness of DAP." The gist of the article is that Malays will never vote for DAP because it is mainly a Chinese party. He and his friend went to a DAP convention and was turned off by the chinese-ness of the function. And he goes on and on about this.

There is a sliver of truth. DAP has targeted and won  most major urban  seats. The economic powerhouse of Selangor and the industry darling of Penang. The 2 richest state in terms of commercial bar any national resources which was granted to backwater states like Sabah and Sarawak and the eastern coast. There is an air of confidence because they have managed these 2 states well and they believe that they can carry this virtue to all states,

I chose my words carefully there to pin a point. In one hand the product of good governance. The other of poor governance. Corrupt or not, good governance goes a long way in producing and encouraging commercial creativity to uplift the society as a whole.

The same must be demanded by people of other city and states. They must demand good governance first and foremost, then they would have more energy to purse their interest without hindrance from the governing bodies. Malays can continue to push for their islamisation of the country and the chinese can continue with commercial exploitation of all communities and the Indians can concentrate on producing Doctors and Lawyers. At least, that's how the stereotype goes anyway.

To claim unilaterally that the Malays would not vote for DAP is an admission that the Malays cannot see past race based parties. If this is true, after 58 years, we are still stuck in the divide and conquer mentality set by the British and expanded by our own Mamak. 

Better to claim lesser educated Malays will not vote for DAP because they fear they are unable to compete in a well-governed state with meritocracy based policies. SO instead of the society as a whole growing and improving together, the author merely drum down the idea of DAP because of its racial demography will not be able to move far beyond the 2 urban and rich states. However there are substantial Malay voters in these constituency. Hmmmmm. 

The author goes on to say that if UiTM opens to the all races as a University-a place of learning- should be doing in the first place, the Malays will lose their places in that University. With affirmative policies in Universities and for scholarships, the Malays are the majority in ALL state Universities. Alas, it does make one wonder if obtaining a degree automatically makes one educated? Mind you, I'm sure UiTM is a good university in its own special way however to say that the Malays will be pushed out and that it will be swarming with non-malays if the University decides eventually to accept non-malays is wholly insulting the Malays.

Born in the same geography and in similar circumstances, why are Malays so fearful and automatically rejects their own ability to compete with the others in a fair system? What is it about this inferior mentality that is being pushed down from the government down the the people and the people are taking it in with mouths wide open? Why? Why?