A Chinese new year has dawned. The prime minister declares that Chinese Malaysians should be more daring to help build a more dynamic ‘1Malaysia’. Such a dramatic invitation by Najib Abdul Razak is made against the dark and depressing background of jarring discordant voices by the Umnoputras which the drums and deafening firecrackers fail to drown out and exorcise.

 

We hear the disturbing insult of all the Ahmad Ismails labelling the Chinese Malaysians ‘immigrants’ and ‘squatters’ and adding that they have no right to equal treatment with the Umnoputras – who just happened to migrate here a little earlier than the rest of us.

 

We hear the deranged Nasir Safars spitting on us in ‘1Malaysia’ seminars with their vile claim that our mothers and grandmothers came here to sell their bodies whilst never mentioning how the Umnoputras sell their principles, souls and even the country away.

 

We hear the devious speeches of  ‘intellectuals’ in the Biro Tata Negara such as the ridiculous claim of a Chinese conspiracy with Singapore, when the Malays are disunited, to topple the Malay government, when very obviously the BTN courses are meant ‘to promote certain government leaders’ (Nazri Aziz) and to protect, perpetuate and preserve their political power.

 

We hear the disgraceful racist rant of all the Abdul Rauf Yusohs in closed-door functions abroad and at home calling non-Malays ‘bangsa asing’ and accusing them of ‘trampling on the Malays in ‘Tanah Melayu’ when the glaring reality is that of Umnoputras trampling on each other and on ordinary Malays to grab and gobble the largest piece possible of ‘Tanah Melayu’ all that is left.

 

We hear the despicable and highly-racist hysteria of Perkasa whose president Ibrahim Ali has hopped back as the saviour of the hapless Malay by waging war against the supposedly avaricious Chinese whilst hiding the fact that the real enemy of the Malays are people like him and his cohorts who have been self-serving sycophants who suck up to the powers-that-be to satisfy their insatiable greed.

 

We hear the dementiated views of Dr Mahathir Mohamad claiming (without any substantiation, solid evidence or statistics) that the Chinese are the real masters of the country when in reality it is he, his cronies and a few Chinese capitalists whom he had created who are the real ‘Tuans’. He is also the real mastermind of  racist policies – the ‘father of all racists’ as Nazri Aziz has crowned him.

 

We hear of the disgusting attempts to make the Chinese the scapegoats of Malay poverty when for the last 39 years of the NEP it was the Umnoputras who have squeezed and bled this country dry and siphoned and stashed their ill-gotten gains overseas and sent their children abroad to study in premier private schools whilst deceiving, denying and depriving the poor Malay of what was due to him.

 

We hear the deafening silence of the Umnoputras on the many bail-outs, buy-outs and the mind- boggling billions wasted and still more which went missing without being accounted for or anyone held responsible for especially during the Mahathir years  and which goes on unabated till today whilst the Chinese are accused of getting richer at the expense of the Malays.

 

We hear the derogatory remarks of the Umnoputras against the Chinese newspapers while the English and Malay papers, especially the Utusan Malaysia , are allowed to go on a spree of spinning falsehood, spouting lies, spewing seditious articles and spreading what Nazri Aziz calls ‘outdated racist propaganda’ with impunity and immunity by the home minister.

 

We hear the diabolical voices who politicise religion for the party’s survival by creating unfounded fears and insecurities amongst Muslims, deepening distrust of adherents of other religions and derailing sincere efforts at inter-religious dialogue whilst declaring those who detest their devious ways as anti-Islam and anti-Malay.

 

We hear the desperate attempts by Umnoputras to manufacture imaginary threats and bogeymen such as the Chinese wanting to conquer this country from the Malays, the Christians hell-bent on confusing and converting every Muslim and even the CIA having covert operations here!

We hear the deceiving hypocrisy of Umnoputras who portray themselves as the protectors of the Malays to revive their comatosed political careers when in actuality Malay rights have always been outlined, stated and guaranteed clearly by the federal constitution ie, the Malays do not need further protection from the likes of Ibrahim Ali.   

 

We hear the Umnoputras drummed-up danger of the Malays losing their rights when they in fact control all the (Malay) institutions, dictate all laws and policies, own all the state-owned companies, GLCs, banks and national assets and resources and are accorded priorities and privileges when it comes to properties, public contracts and scholarships. If indeed the Malays do lose their rights, it is to the elite.

 

We hear the delirium of the warlords who are drunk with power, warning non-Malays not to push the Malays too far (who is pushing?) or they would go amok, create a bloodbath and start another May 13 ‘or Feb. 13' when it is obvious that such intimidating threats of thuggery and mob violence are meant to defend ‘the most corrupt institution in this country’.

 

We hear Najib’s voice spurring the country towards oneness, but will it be silenced by a cacophony of racism? Will the PM show spine, substance and nerves of steel and stop the mounting dissonance by the warlords, government officials and extremist groups like Perkasa or will he be satisfied at just being a sloganeer and somnolent PM and meet the same tragic fate as his predecessor?

 

We hear Najib’s invitation to the Chinese Malaysian to be more courageous, committed and to contribute to a more dynamic '1Malaysia'. At the same time the Umnoputras are allowed to gamble away the country by playing the racist card to the hilt. Is this part of Najib’s charade and chicanery of ‘concrete change’ on Chinese New Year’s Day? If it is, he and  will not last very long.