"we are racists"

Information Minister Datuk Zainuddin Maidin says the thinking of Malaysians had yet to reach the level of maturity as those in the West and Europe.


He claims that the Malaysian Rakyat are racists. WTF? Who has he asked to determine such a claim? Did he send out questionnaires to survey the population on our so-called racist mentality?

If you want to talk racism, look no further than the structure of the Barisan Nasional coalition. An "alliance" of racist parties, each component party only catering to a particular ethnic group while ignoring the rights of the minorities. Divide and conquer. Very smart. Also very racist.

And we have people who are becoming much louder over the months with the emergence of more blogs highlighting injustice, institutionalized racism, corruption, beauracracy and other ills that clog up the government machinery. All this is designed to keep the ruling coalition in perpetual power, while blocking the truth from the public!

The Parliament is the only place where the public can truly be heard, via their constituency's MP. How will the public know what responses to their views and questions are if there is no live broadcast of the parliament proceedings?

The racist excuse is just that: a flimsy excuse given to protect immature and childish MP's from public ridicule, a sanctioned method to hide the unfair treatment dished out to opposition MP's, and the seemingly reduced power of the parliament to merely a noisy "pasar" with shouting, scolding, obscenity, racism and gender discrimination, and other exhibits of third-world mentality!