When the UMNO Run Federal Government (URFeG) dishes out awards, one can almost be sure that they will shadow the ratio of 70:20:10 of which 70% will be given to the Malays, 20% to the Chinese and 10% to the Indians.Yesterday the URFeG presented their “Perpaduan Awards” to 7 Malaysians in honor of their “extensive contribution towards unity, peace and harmony amongst Malaysians”. The racial makeups of its recipients were again 70:20:10.
To the Warong kopi, awards which are based on racial representation are an affront to the dignity of the recipients. This is even more so when such awards are given for the promotion of racial unity.
The URFeG must realize that real unity can never exist when their sacred cow of race based ratios are openly worshiped and when color, race and creed continues to be their primary building blocks to erect their ketuanan.
The Warong kopi opines that the only one person who till this day has the power to unify Malaysians regardless of race, color and creed and who can without doubt honorably uphold the title of Tokoh Perpaduan is Raja Petra Kamarudin.
What says the PR government?
Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye and Datuk Michael Chong were among seven personalities honoured for their extensive contribution towards unity, peace and harmony among Malaysians.
Social activist Lee, 62, was named Tokoh Perpaduan (Unity Hero) while Chong, head of the MCA Public Services and Complaints Department was awarded the Kalung Perpaduan (Unity Chain) by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
The awards were given in conjunction with the launch of Unity Month yesterday.
The other Tokoh Perpaduan was former Sabah Yang di-Pertua Tun Sakaran Dandai.
Other Kalung Perpaduan recipients were cartoonist Datuk Mohammad Nor Khalid, better known as Lat, S. Krishnamoorthy, Nafisah Abdullah and Mohd Afzal Hamzah.
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2 comments:
Yeah, we are all so so so tired of all these standard race-based awards, nobody's interested anymore. Let's stay at the warong kopi and talk about something else...
What the Warong kopi opines is not from a personal perspective. It comes from a good a good mix of common rakyat who sits in the Warong with me, the poor, the not so poor and the very middle class.
Perhaps you would prefer the warong to talk about the great compassion, the great sense of fair play, the respect for the personal religious right that URFeG have for the rakyat? If you do subscribe to all those, then you have divorce yourself from the reality of the pain and anger the common man hold. And should I am right, you have eyes that see not, ears that hear not and a heart that cares not, you are to be pitied.
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