I read Black Power's letter with much sympathy, but I would like to say that our very own problem in Malaysia is not so much different than yours ([#1] Seeing people in black and white [/#]). While the writer suffers this kind of discrimination in a foreign land, we Malaysian-born-Indians are suffering the same in our own land.

Take a simple example; look at the job listings in the newspapers today. Most of the jobs would prefer a Mandarin/Cantonese-speaking person (i.e. Chinese) or in sometimes a bumiputra (i.e. Malay). In fact I've heard from some friends in the employment agency that most companies reduce the salary offered for an Indian candidate or totally turn Indian job-hunters down.

Parti Keadilan has been working on equality to all without regard to colour or race, but I strongly believe there is nothing much a political party can do to correct this. It is the society that has to correct this problem.

If you were to go to a village dominated by Malays, you would notice that Indians are greeted as 'keling' (slightly derogatory term for 'Indian') even by the youngest kids around. While in a Chinese residential area an Indian would be called a 'kling-kia'. These two terms refers to Malaysian-Indians in the same manner how African-Americans are called 'niggers'.

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