A more sensitive umno?

The problem with the assumption that a more 'sensitive' umno would win back non malay votes is just not enough and to use the word 'sensitive' for many young non malays now who identify themselves as malaysians is at best, patronising.. The non malays that we have today not only demands sensitive respect, but also equality. There s no two ways about it, no matter how we want to spin it. We have to realise the bar of what is fair and not fair for non malays is now higher. The non malays are demanding better political voice, religious voice and a better say in how their taxes are spent. They also want to see more non malays in police, in army, in government service, and yes, in cabinet too.

why not? Have they not been contributing their life to this supposedly malay land too?

For me, this is rightly so.and this is only the natural effect of a succesful multicultural malaysia.

Umno has to wake up to this reality.malays too must wake up to this reality.

Umno has only 2 choices. Either we amend ourselves to accomodate as little or as much of this, or we just plough through the consensus that malays will always become rulers because of our sheer breeding capabilities ie there are always more malays than non malays in numbers.

if we choose the later, we shall have a divided country. We won't probably have a civil strife (because no one wants to shed blood in this ipod world) , but we probably see more non malays leaving the country ( as many already do and doing so now).

As I posted earlier, for the non malays, better brain drain than brain in the drain.

Yes it is true that maybe tan sri khalid speaks of milder terms towards non malays, but then again, have we already forgotten that was why they won it?

We WILL NOT win back selangor and wilayah persekutuan if we don't get our acts right.and what is right is to be in touch with what selangor and wilayah people wants both malays and non malays.

The non malays in both selangor and wilayah are fed up with our umno tactics. We bully their mca/mic reps all the time, or maybe if we didn't do that, that's how they see it.for example, In shah alam we put their churches in the industrial areas. Now the new pas shah alam mp is trying to relocate that. And we say umno is sensitive? Now that pakatan rakyat has risen the bar, we umno must pledge to do even better.

Better than just sensitive malays, umno must learn when to be malay, and when to be a malaysian. If u ask me, umno must be malaysian first, then malay.

And tan sri khalid, anwar, and the pas mp for shah alam, shahril samad, knows this. They know that as long as they lend their ears to the non malays, they will continue to be re elected.

Yes, it also helps that most urban malays ( like most of you who are reading this) are malaysian first before malay too, and that we have chinese and indian friends as many as our malay ones, and feel that it is ok to vote chinese/indian as long as he serves well.

Well u can argue that these malays voted against umno because they see umno as being corrupted and meluat dah, but I bet in urban areas like selangor and wilayah, these are minorities. Most of these new malays as old people in umno like to call them, are malays who believe in a more malaysian malaysia (whatever that is). I think it is only natural that the more educated u are, the less rascist u tend to be or should be. And racism has no place in the future of malaysia.

Then where to umno? Or how do we umno reinvent ourselves to win back selangor and wilayah?

I think the answer to this, at its simplest are:

1. Umno must be a less corrupted, not money/contract driven,and not be seen as old people led party. Full stop.u don't change this, we go nowhere. Don't even bother to win back selangor ke apa ker, we probably extinct first. I am sure u can see why we shudlnt be corrupted or money driven, but old people party?umno has to realise that Half of the new voters in msia are below 35. But I ask u how many umno candidates are below 35? When my friend lee asked me this question earlier, I can only think of kj! Then again, we all know why he got nominated.

2.Umno must do less of racial mongering.why is this so difficult? Must we really put up " ketuanan melayu telah tergugagt" in berita harian front page last sunday?? What do we get out of all this? Well I can certainly say that we get less people buying umno owned berita harian, that's what u get!

Kalau betul kita umno nak tolong melayu, tolong jer lah.tak payah nak kecoh kecoh. More importantly, kenapa kita perlu kacau periuk nasi orang cina atau india?

I also believe that we umno can do more for malays. Why don't we talk abt reminding malays that we need to be more competitive, that islam as our religion doesn't promote racism, and more to this, to remind them that we as malay race will go nowhere if we continue to believe this delusion that we are ok. We malays are not ok! will we one day be cracked when globalisation hits us? Takkan lah kita orang melayu nak hidup bawah tempurung selamanya? If we umno are forever giving the malays the handicap, are we actually helping the malays or are we killing the malays in the long run.

These are questions young umno members with aspiration shud be asking. Must be brave too to bring this fwd. For the sake of the malays. Kata nak tolong melayu kan?

Maybe tan sri khalid don't have to think abt all this in his sleep because keadilan rakyat bukan parti untuk orang melayu sahaja.

But umno kena lah fikir. And at the same time, kalau nak menang selangor and wilayah balik, umno must change.

No change no gain.

I ll bet my last penny on it.


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