We Are Not Opportunistic Racists

"However, I must add that there were indeed a few Chinese that stayed back and help defend the nation against the communists. Those were the brave ones. Very much unlike the opportunistic racists that we have now who would migrate overseas when times are bad and at the same time condemning Malaysia from abroad." (A very short excerpt from the blog of jebatmustdie)

Dear Jebat,

I must admit that the above comment by the you has been very disturbing to me for the past few days. Your comment hits me severely hard on my face, and that suddenly makes me lose all the impulses of expressing myself to condemn the brutal regime of UMNO from abroad. I struggled to come out with a valid reason for me to continue condemning them from Australia.

Although my skin is yellow, but my blood definitely flows with Malaysian blood. I have not equated myself with the chinese from China, but I declare that if those chinese from China dare to conquer Malaysia land, I would pick up a gun and give them a bloody nose, just like how our forefathers had fight against the insurgency of the Communist in the past. I can be the brave ones as well when come to defend my country from oppressors.

I'm not leaving Malaysia because of the bad economy, or of the humble wages. When I leave the country and migrate to another country, it was a big decision for me, because I have to leave everything behind to start anew in a strange place. I must say, it's much easier to continue staying in Malaysia rather than starting all over again in a new place, alone. Furthermore, I'll belong to even a smaller minority group than I am in Malaysia after migrated. If I have a choice, I wouldn't migrate, I love Malaysia.

Dear jebat, it's the security & the racial policies in my country that made up my mind to migrate. There is nothing more precious than having a peaceful & harmonious living. That's why we often greet people with "peace be with you". Because without peace, other possessions would have become unimportant. Look around us, people are killing people just for a mere five ringgit and the police just shrugged off by asking the people not to wear handbag and expensive accessories. The government of the day has not done anything to improve this situation, but has aggravated the situation by the police themselves becoming a criminal. When my mom often told me in the past that she was able to walk & cycle around without fear being targeted for petty crimes, the Malaysians today do not have the luxury to feel the same. We just want peace.

Over and over again, I have heard racial hatred being sowed by UMNO. In the context of racial relation, times has been bad since 13th May 1969, not just recently. Whenever we tried to forget, we were reminded by UMNO that if the non-Malay are not obedient, 513 will repeat. Since young, I was told by my parents to be aware of the Malays and Indians, because they kidnap children. It was used as a standard scare tactics by most of the ethnic chinese parents to stop their children from wandering far from their sight. At school, the chinese named the Malays as babi, the Indians as keling and of course they have different names for the chinese. Even today, I'm sure you hear people utter such words at each other, even in the parliament, don't you? There never was a good time as racial relation is concerned. Jebat, I don't want my children to grow up in such environment where we label different ethnic groups with contempt and constantly under life threatening threats from our leaders. I want my children to grow in an environment where they feel accepted. We just want to be treated equally as a human.

I have lived in Singapore and Australia 1/3 of my life. Ironically, those were the place that I didn't feel being discriminated against even I was not part of them. Can you understand the feeling of a Malaysian who is being discriminated in his own country? Surely not, because you haven't been one of them as defined in the constitution.