YOURSAY ‘Believe you can do it and you have half the battle won.’

'How to uplift Malays when confidence ruined'

RCZ: Well said, rights group Negara-Ku patron Ambiga Sreenavasan. However, it is lost on Isma as its members cannot think independently unlike national laureate A Samad Said (Pak Samad) and many other Malays.

Isma has not offered any answer to Pak Samad’s message, and yes they chose to blindly shoot the messenger , an 80-year-old man.

Isma ought to crawl back under the rock from under which they came, but we all know they are shameless.

Hank Marvin: Spot on Ambiga; Pak Samad has actually put many younger men to shame.

Progressive: Former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Umno continue to undermine and kill the self-confidence, pride, dignity and the future of a wonderful race just so to stay in power.

Unleash the Malays and they will conquer the world. Worse, manipulate their fears, and they are deceitfully given crutches so as to be forever dependent on Umno. Therein lies the Malay dilemma - to be or not to be free of Umno.

P Dev Anand Pillai: The Malays are one of the luckiest people on the planet. With all the aid given, they have progressed and have come far. Now with all the knowledge and intellect that they have gained, a question now arises, when will their mind be free?

When one has knowledge, one would tend to want to know more and what better way than to ask questions, which in turn builds confidence. That is where their attempts will be thwarted.

If they free themselves from this mind mould, they will be able to achieve whatever they have set their minds to.

Thinking Citizen_1403620863: Malays are unique, as are other communities, and one thing for sure is that they are not lazy as Mahathir puts it. I have seen fruit sellers selling late into the night even though it is raining.

The first thing the government should consider is to solve the issue of lack of skills that the graduates need to compete due to the lowering of standards in our local universities to boost Malay graduates.

It is not feasible to send them back to university to study again but on the other hand, the government can set up training centres to impart them with proper skills in other areas like food and beverage (F&B) where they can build a local franchise to get them started.

All of us need to encourage them and assure them that success will come with the right motivation and diligence. Do not expect handouts to solve their problem as it will never work. And for once, think of them as our countrymen and not votes to win elections.

Anonymous #25558299: The non-Malays in this country have no time to argue over race and religion or think of attacking the Malays because they have to work hard to find ways and means to support their families, unlike groups such as Isma and Perkasa who are living on money paid by Umno leaders and their main job is to instigate racial disharmony in the country.

Anak JB: The Malays have been laid under siege by Umno as part of its political manipulation. How could one race progress when every issue become someone's issue without any soul searching and reflection?

How could a race that is soon to be a 75 percent majority not be in a position to dictate its future based on one-man, one-vote? If the Malays are backward and are constantly ‘under attack’, we need to ask who has put them in this position after 57 years in power?

Ade007: Truly profound. I feel sorry for my fellow Malay Malaysians. Believe you can do it and you have half the battle won. Unfortunately, you were not given the opportunity to believe so. The few who want to believe are being oppressed. This is the true Malay dilemma.

Fair Play: The truth is if there were just over 30 percent of their community who could think and act like Pak Samad, our nation today would have surpassed Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore in social integration and economic development.

Anonymous #19098644: The Isma, Perkasa and Umno clique all suffer from an inferiority complex due to the corrupt political leadership.

Even PM Najib Abdul Razak himself says that the Umno warlords are preventing bright young Malays from joining the party. So what does this trio expect when all they have are incompetent and corrupted cronies to choose from?

Labis Guy: We should be very happy to have Perkasa and Isma making noise. Indirectly they are killing Umno. The non-Malays will get fed up and the moment Sabahans and Sarawakians get fed up with their remarks, Umno is doomed. So don't bother with what they say.

Msian1st: Malaysia’s biggest problem is racism. And the government is the source of it.

Anonymous #57883242: The irony is that the non-Malays have more confidence in the Malays than Isma/Perkasa and Umno.

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