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COMMENT | What can a non-Malay PM do for the group?

COMMENT | Amanah president Mohamad Sabu played the demographics card effortlessly with the non-Malay prime minister fiasco when he said, “The Malays are increasingly having more children, while the Chinese do not want to.”

Of course, why everyone assumes a non-Malay PM would be “Chinese“ when there are a few other non-Malay communities in Malaysia just points to the Sino-Malay dialectic which defines politics in this country.

We do not have to ask ourselves why Mat Sabu thinks that Malays, who are the majority, would never vote for a non-Malay PM.

If a white politician in a demographically white country assumed or implied that the white majority would never vote for a non-white prime minister, you can bet your last ringgit that Mat Sabu would think that said politician was “racist”.

Social engineering, religious indoctrination, propaganda brainwashing organisations and the mainstreaming of racist politics have engineered a polity which would not even consider a non-Malay PM.

What would a non-Malay PM do for the non-Malay communities anyway?

The PM would have to be a PM for the majority and not for the majority who voted for him or her. This would mean...

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