I refer to the Malaysiakini report Would you like being called 'celaka Singh'? and was a little amused by what the Umno Youth exco member Reezal Merican Naina Merican had to say.

He was reported have said, ‘...the Malays were hurt when the opposition leader referred to Umno Youth as celaka.

What amused me were two things. First that he is an Umno Youth exco member, and secondly how will the Malays as a whole get hurt as the term was hurled at Umno Youth only. Many Malays do not wish to be associated with Umno.

They are with PAS and PKR and in case, many are now even joining the DAP which they see as a better party for a futuristic Malaysia.

Reezal being an exco member in Umno Youth really shocked me. His very name will tell you he is an Indian and not a Malay - maybe an ‘honourary Malay’ if there is such a thing in the first place (I think there is and that is why Nor Mohammed Yakcop is the second finance minister).

There are some who are Indians when it suits them and Malays when it suits them. Some of them, in the past, were registered as Indians when they went to foreign countries to study, and suddenly upon returning after graduation, they saw the scope of opportunity lying before them if they were Malay.

Taking advantage of Malay hospitality, they pretended to champion the ‘Malay cause’ and in the process created radical views including blaming the backwardness of the Malay on everyone else. They talked about ‘a great Malay era’ but took the best of everything for themselves leaving the Malays with the scraps.

This reminded me of my trip to South Africa, where I visited the Apartheid Museum. If you have the opportunity go visit that museum, you’ll find similarities between the way that government operated and our government of today.

They used to have a periodical reviews of the status of people there who classified white, black, coloured, and honourary whites. However, during the reviews they’d have a number of whites re-classified as blacks, some honourary whites re-classified as coloured while some other re-classified as white.

What stumped me was that some blacks and coloureds got re-classified as white too, quite like here especially in Sabah where some illegal immigrants become bumiputera. Here, we also have some Indians and a former prime minister suddenly becoming Malay, and it is these people who take a radical view of everything. There is a Javanese who is now trying hard to emulate this ‘honourary example’.

A careful look at Umno and you’ll see that it is this ‘honourary Malay’ who is quite often the cause of all the troubles that have befallen this nation, and one such ‘honourary Malay’ is none other than Dr Mahathir Mohamad himself.

A look at the many of the successful Malays from his era will reveal many ‘honourary Malays’ who have suddenly become multi-millionaires, and if all that wealth was put together, it would have lifted the ordinary Malays to self-sufficiency and allowed all Malaysians irrespective of race to share in the economic pie of the nation. The NEP would have been a huge success.

We all know who is pulling the strings for Najib Abdul Razak to become the PM; he has made no secret of it. But none of these so-called Umno leaders are interested in the success of the NEP as its success will mean killing the cash cow, the cash cow from which they milk the wealth of the nation.

Any wonder then why the police did not arrest anyone in front of Karpal Singh’s’s house, why they did nothing when Karpal was confronted by thugs in Parliament in front of their own eyes and why is it that native Sabahans and Sarawakians have no right to their native land?

What have a now in the form of a government is a bunch of thieves who are bent on cheating the Malays, in cahoots with some people who jointly proclaim they represent the respective races when in fact they are robbing us in broad daylight.

The only way to put a stop to this is to come out and bravely tell them ‘enough is enough’, we’ll have no more of this. We want to move forward so get out before we force you out.