Four hundred high achievers have complained to the MCA that in spite of scoring all As in their SPM examination, none of them obtained a Public Services Department (PSD) scholarship. It is so unfair.

Over 400 SPM high achievers denied PSD scholarships and yet they expect them to stand up straight when the Negaraku is played! Doesn't this sort of open racial discrimination make non-Malays really feel that we have no place under the Malaysian's sun?

We are only tolerated as 'pendatang' and not regarded and valued as equal citizens. Our nation's best are discarded because of their skin colour. No nation which does not value her best can compete and excel in the world and that is a fact.

When our country's oil and gas run out, maybe then the government will realise this. By then, it may be too late for Malaysia to catch up with the rest of the world. Look at South Korea and Thailand. When once they straggle far behind Malaysia in economic achievements, today they are overtaking us.

If we keep treating our best in such a sloppy manner, soon other countries too (like Thailand) will shoot far ahead of us and we too will be left far behind.

Do not the authorities realise how difficult it is to be a high achiever and how few of them there are in any nation? And yet policymakers are blind to this. What they carelessly discard (based on race), other nations will only gleefully welcome.

Singapore, Australia, Canada, US, and other countries are benefitting from our folly because we are giving away our best to them annually. No wonder Singapore is prospering and excelling in the world.

As for the MCA, beside mouthing platitudes, what can it do to solve this problem once and for all? MCA is nothing but a sycophantic servant of Umno. Its leadership is useless and self-serving, more concerned about positions and self-interests than the community's real concerns.

Otherwise, how do you explain this perennial problem? Last year, it happened. This year, the same thing. Next year, it will be the same old discrimination and injustice all over again. Anybody wants to bet MCA can solve the problem? Not me.