I was at the Konvensyen Belia 2009 in Malacca recently and had to agonisingly sit through and listen to speaker after speaker doing a big disservice to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

The convention was to discuss ‘1Malaysia' which is the latest slogan to hit Malaysians but participants left with a bad taste in the mouth.

There was this one particular paper presenter who is a lecturer from University Malaya (God help UM) who simplified ‘1Malaysia' for everyone.

He said ‘1Malaysia' is not about equality, its not a Malaysian Malaysia. It's about justice (lol).

By way of providing an example, he says if the recent Amanah Saham Wawasan share issue was distributed equally, ie, nine billion shares for each community, it would mean the Malays by virtue of their large number would each only get to buy RM600, 000 (forgetting that there is cap on purchases available anyway)

Next, the Chinese, because they have a smaller number, would walk away with 1.2 million shares each and the Indians would benefit the most because as the smallest community they would get 2.4 million shares each.

Wow! (The simplistic argument here is that it is the fault of the Chinese and Indians for not procreating to have larger numbers of their kind)

And this, therefore, is why the shares cannot be distributed equally; this is why justice demands that the Malays must get 16 billion shares, the Chinese five billion shares and the Indians two billion shares.

I can safely say that this is why UM will never get into the list of top universities in the world. It can't with lecturers with such simplistic minds.

He failed to point out that practically:

1. Not everyone can afford to buy the shares.

2. As with all such schemes, the ones with the most money from each community will benefit - not necessarily the whole community.

And third, if we are really sincere about ‘1Malaysia' we have to stop thinking along damn racial mindsets.