I refer to the article Ketuanan Melayu: False premise and promise .

M Bakri Musa has exposed with utmost clarity the root of many ills in the Malay sphere of thinking, action and expectation. He makes so much sense, but will the community's leaders be willing to see the truth of his statements and the wisdom of his suggestions on how to get out of the quagmire?

Or will stubborn pride still stand in the way of common sense? There was a time when subtlety was the norm in attempts to promote Malay domination. But not so now. There is today a blatant insistence that Malay rights supersede those of others, and everything and everyone must bow down to the Malayness of anything.

It is the attitudes of 'Me and mine' and 'Don't you dare challenge me' that prevails. When will there ever be the realisation that the greatness of a community does not lie in the power it wields, or in the riches it displays but in the greatness of its heart.

When we pass on, we are most remembered not for material achievements but for the lives we touched along life's road. Someone once said that a man never stands so tall as when he stoops to help a little child.

In the film 'Millions' , two brothers find a bag of money with no known owner. The younger brother wants to use the money to help the poor. The older brother sees the new-found wealth as his ticket to both popularity and a good life.

Said D McCasland, in his review of the film, 'What unfolds is a story that vividly contrasts the freedom of a generous spirit with the frustration of a grasping hand'.

There is greatness in giving. There is shame in grabbing. Grabbing shows we are in bondage to something for if we can't let go of that something, it means that that something owns us. If we are able to let go of it, we are not owned by it. We are in fact free. The key to freedom is not a hand reaching out to grasp but a hand outstretched to give.