COMMENT | Of Keluarga Malaysia and unabashed institutional racism

COMMENT | If you are Malaysian and do not belong to the ruling elite Malay class, you have to be depressed by the current state of affairs in the country and its slide towards a poor imitation of what it once was.

You will be so very aware that the root cause of the rot and decline is the institutionalised racism put in place by the elite Malay political class - a breed to themselves - who if not for their race-based privileges, would be unable to indulge in the excessive privileges and wealth they see as a right, much of it even accumulated illegally.

It is thus no accident that in the recent Pandora Papers revelations, Malaysia ranks fifth in terms of outflow of capital, allegedly up to RM1.8 trillion.

Rather than using the pandemic and the current dire state of the country to reflect upon and put in place draconian reforms, political elites have doubled down since they returned to power after the political crisis of the last year.

Certain individuals - who most decent Malaysians thought they would never see again - are back, including those with criminal records, a long list of charges and impeccable track records as racists.

Their shameless obsessions with racial politics to enrich themselves and their ecosystem of bottom feeders appears to be hard-wired into their pathological mindsets, allowing them to ignore the daily deaths of hundreds and the white flags across the country.

They continue with the only thing they seem to know and thrive on - self-serving race-based policies.

This is not speculation; this is...