I could not agree more with the letter by Dr Musa Mohd Nordin entitled University-bashing unscholarly approach .

It seems some people are quick to jump at any opportunity to generalise along the racial lines particularly when it involves the bumiputera. Never mind that these same people enjoy some of the benefits of the NEP's affirmative measures but their bias towards the bumi is so pronounced that they fail to see injustices done unto the bumis themselves.

How many non-bumi companies have given top management roles to brilliant bumi against the less brilliant of their own creed? How many brilliant bumi academicians are given half the opportunities given to non-bumi by non-bumiputera institutions?

I will be more than happy if anyone can show me statistics showing a 30 percent achievement for both the above categories. How many times have the bumis 'changed shirts' so to speak just to be in the crowd of non-bumis compared to vice versa?

In short, while I do not necessarily agree with every step or measure taken in the course of favouring the bumiputera, we should be fair and reasonable on all accounts all the time.

Indeed, I will not be surprised if for every Edmund Terence Gomez , there may be three (if not more) 'Ahmads' who have been disadvantaged (or discriminated) against. But that story never come out...