In the early days when the New Economic Policy (NEP) was implemented the rumblings of people not categories as Malays were a closed-door affair.

The prevailing issues relating to political inequality were hushed up, closely examined by the ethnic Chinese and Indian business communities as well academics and the general populace of these communities.

At the outset of the introduction of the NEP the other communities did recognise that there did exist, some differentiation in the capability and the ability of the ethnic Malays.

However, based on their central ethical tenets of philosophy, they consented to genuinely give the Malays a helping hand. The main aim was to reduce poverty and to raise their corporate ownership from 1.5 percent in 1969 to 30 percent by 1990.

As time progressed there arose other impositions, such as, issues relating to the use of language, religion, education, employment and racially concocted regulations being imposed on the way business was to be conducted.

As the framers of the NEP assured the other ethnic community leaders that the policy was for a period of 20 years the other communities adopted the concept of: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

When 1990 came along the leaders of the United Malay National Organisation (Umno) issued a different variant to the NEP. They termed the period between 1970 and 1990 as the First Outline Perspective Plan (OPP) and introduced a second OPP for 1991 to 2000 and subsequently a third OPP for 2001 to 2010.

The political oratory of the Umno leaders can at best be described as a "semantic paradox." By this, it means that "semantic" stands for language and "paradox" stands for ambiguity. So the political oratory became ambiguous.

It smacked of gross discrimination of the ethic Chinese and Indians' enshrined rights under the Federal Constitution.

Further apart from grossly violating the federal constitution, it was opened up to destructive analysis and experiential examination. This situation gave rise to the conflicting demands made by the purported minority against the ethnic Malays. The purported minority challenged their oppression.

What the ethnic Malays failed to realise was the fact that when the other community leaders who represented the non-Malays had consented to give a helping hand to the ethnic Malays, they had made concessions that were premised on their psychological perception.

Article 5 (1) of the Federal Constitution eloquently asserts that "No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty save in accordance with law" and Article 8 (1) states "All persons are equal before the law and entitled to the equal protection of the law."

As the constitution provides for the inalienable rights to liberty and equality, how and on what basis does privilege or affirmative action, arise. This must be pure nonsense.

Under our constitution none of the citizens would be premised to be of an inferior status.

Umno leaders should dismantle all the existing unethical barriers they have set up over the last 40 years or more and gain a better understanding of our different cultures, religions, social, ethical and educational backgrounds so as to develop their creative skills when representing the views of their communities.

Therefore, all politicians and the people of this nation should declare the word "race" to be defunct.