YOURSAY 'If minister Shahidan Kassim is a real gentleman, ask him to repeat what he said just before the next election.'

Shahidan flayed over 'grandma remedy' for Indians

Nuts: If Minister in the PM's Department Shahidan Kassim is a real gentleman, ask him to repeat what he said just before the next election.

Will he take this challenge? Even his own party members will curse him. Anyway we need more people like MIC's Jaspal Singh to speak out against those who belittle any particular race.

Wildboar: Before the election, you asked the Indians to trust you. After the election, you ask the Indians to help themselves.

Five years on, the Indian leaders will forget everything except how to kiss the dirty hands that feed them. I feel no pity for such leaders, you have sold out the interests of your people in exchange for positions and benefits.

Onyourtoes: Yes, we hear you, Jaspal. But do you know why Umno leaders can always hurl hurtful remarks whenever they want? Simple, whatever they said bears them no consequence.

Despite your very good counter punch, I believe nothing will ever happen to Shahidan. You are welcome to wager with me on this.

They know that no matter how they abuse and belittle the minorities in this country, there will be ‘beggars' from the minorities ever willing to wait in line.

It is parties like MIC and MCA that have inculcated and nurtured Umno into a 'kurang ajar' party with its false sense of entitlement manifested brilliantly for all to see. Jaspal, it is not like you do not know this.

And the last time I checked, MIC is still very much hand in glove with Umno. Not only that, MIC now needs to compete with another ever willing ‘beggar', the mighty Persatuan Hindraf.

Now you tell me how the Indians should find a way out of this quagmire.

Awakened: Shahidan deserved such bashing from senator Jaspal. But so long as these race-based parties exist and become the government, the unfair utilisation of resources will continue and the bashing between parties will go on - unless the weaker parties stop submitting completely to the dominant party.

Minister to Indians: Don't blame gov't, help yourselves

Swipenter: In Bolehland, only one race and one religion deserves assistance from the Umno Baru-dominated government. Whether they are deserving or not is not a criteria for the government.

Others may receive help at their generosity because they are considered as pendatangs and not equal citizens of Bolehland. Consider yourself lucky if they don't set up roadblocks (usually in the form of administrative obstacles and quota) in your desire to better yourself.

Some tried to embrace the prevailing dogma of the officialdom only to find themselves ridiculed and told to toe the line and now to help themselves because the existing policies are good enough as evidenced in the number of Indian lawyers and doctors in relation to their population.

What kind of logical thinking is that? What about the high ratio of poor and marginalised Indians?

Odin: Shahidan, a news report a week ago told us that the non-Malay pupils were made to sit the matriculation exam in a different hall from the Malay ones. I shan't ask what that tells you because you have consistently shown yourself to be thicker than not two but 20 short planks.

You have the New Economic Policy (NEP) to help the Malays. What do you have to help the non-Malays, in particular the Indians?

Yes, there are many doctors and lawyers who are Indians, but they have achieved their objectives to be such professionals through their own efforts.

The Indians, generally speaking, have good brains, and they even speak and write better English than those of the other races with the same background. I know because I have worked together with many of them at a transnational company.

Even if they were office boys (aka messengers and peons), they exhibited a level of intellect higher than that found among the Malays of their level.

Shahidan, it is painfully clear to those of us who have functioning, good brains that your government has marginalised the Indian community and that your denial is so devoid of force that it reflects yet again the emptiness in your skull.

Sa Tombs: I once remarked to a colleague that the brains of BN politicians should be collectively put in a box and sent to the moon.

And the prim and proper Malay woman asked me whether a match box would suffice. My retort was that even a match box was too big.

CiViC: When it comes to Malays, it's always "We need to protect their interests", "We need to assist in economy", "We need to empower them".

Meanwhile, the Chinese are always branded as power hungry, accused of monopolising businesses and being unpatriotic. And now the Indians, help yourself. 1Malaysia indeed.

NuckinFuts: What happened to ‘I help you, you help me?'

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