Politik Malaysia masih huru hara. Pada awal 90an sebelum masalah ekonomi dan politik, orang lebih suka cerita tentang wang sebab tiada isu yang lebih penting dari buat wang terutama di Stock Market. Pada tahun 91-96 umpamanya sangat ramai yang duduk di depan computer screen tanpa membuat kerja selain memantau turun naik pasaran saham. Di securities firm pula ramai yang memenuhi ruang sempit di depan screen seperti menonton bola di restoran mamak. Aku pun sama join tetapi tidak aktif. Lebih banyak rugi dari untung tetapi biasalah kisah keuntungan akan diceritakan manakala rugi disimpan. Sikap racist di kalangan rakyat Malaysia ketika itu mengalir lesu walaupun ada terasa riak kecil yang terus bergerak kerana kita waktu itu rakyat malaysia terlalu sibuk berkongsi kek yang terlalu besar untuk dihabiskan. Politik adalah perkara terakhir dalam kehidupan harian.
Gelombang di dasar lautan yang berterusan semenjak belum merdeka lagi pernah dimanifest dengan tsunami 1969 yang menyebabkan kekacauan dan kematian. Hari ini gelombang yang begitu lesu di awal 90an tersebut semakin berombak kerana kurangnya perhatian. Apakah gelombang ini akan mampu mengganas menelan kedamaian negara tercinta ini dan menelan perpaduan yang terbina bila ia kembali menjelma sebagai tsunami? Dengan berkembangnya ICT, isu politik diperdebat bebas secara virtual oleh semua golongan termasuk golongan bangsawan dan yang melepak di jalanan. Isu-isu perkauman dimainkan dan diulas berjela. Dengan tiba-tiba lahir begitu ramai pemblog politik, tidak kira tua atau muda. Politik hari ini telah menjadi megastar dan tumpuan seperti Stock Market di awal 90an. Selain menjadi penulis, ramai sekali menjadi penonton yang menuang minyak ke dalam api yang kian membesar. Cerita dan berita tersebar terlalu pantas sehingga tiada ruang untuk menilai dan meneliti. Tiada yang lebih penting dan utama dari bercerita tentang politik melayu, cina dan india dan lebih menakutkan sentimen perkauman menjadi hangat dan membakar bukan sahaja jari tetapi keseluruhan diri sendiri lebih-lebih lagi bila ditokok dengan cerita yang samar-samar dan dongengan...
Kita sendiri menjadi semakin lemah dan apologetik(?) sehingga ada yang mengambil kesempatan dengan cara yang tidak mengenang budi. Sejarah lampau dilupai untuk menjastifikasi kerakusan untuk memonopoli kesemua kek yang semakin kecil. Kita kadang-kadang lupa masih ada dokumen lama yang menceritakan bagaimana generasi terdahulu membina asas negara tercinta ini. Mungkin juga apa yang berlaku adalah kesilapan kita yang melupakan subjek penting dalam hidup iaitu Sejarah Negara kerana beranggapan apa yang lepas hanya layak dimuziumkan atau didokumenkan di Arkib Negara. Sudah sampai masa kita melihat seketika ke belakang sebelum terus melangkah ke hadapan. Eloklah bertanya pada diri sendiri. Apa lagi harta yang kita ada bila hampir semua tanah yang dipijak milik orang. Kuasa apa lagi yang kita ada bila tangan dan kaki kita telah dipatahkan. Semangat apa lagi yang tinggal bila telinga kita dipulas dan hidung kita ditarik dan disentak seperti lembu. Islam apakah kita bila umat seagama menjadi seteru. Tiada apa lagi. Tapi kehidupan kita bukan bernoktah di sini. Aku suka dengan ucapan bekas President MIC dan President MCA. Ia hanyalah sejarah yang tidak memberitahu apa-apa tentang masa hadapan kita tetapi inilah asas yang terbina yang perlu difahami oleh generasi akan datang untuk membangunkan sebuah negara yang maju, aman damai dan sejahtera.
i. Ucapan oleh Presiden MIC, V.T. Sambanthan di Dewan Rakayat pada 1 Jun 1965:
… in 1955 we won the elections with a great majority. Then we obtained freedom in two years time. During this period, we had to discuss citizenship and various other things. Now what did the Malays do -- since we are speaking on racial lines -- what did the Malay leadership do? They had 88 percent of the electorate still with them. What did they do with citizenship? If we look around in Asia and East Asia, particularly, you will find that my race the Indian race, is not welcomed in Ceylon, is not welcomed in Burma.Look at my brother Chinese race, it is not welcomed in Thailand, in Vietnam, in Cambodia, in all the other areas. What help do they get for citizenship in all these territories? In Burma, as we know, Indians have been send packing, in Ceylon they refused them citizenship and in Burma it is likewise. I know it, you know it. And yet in Malaya what happened? Here we found that the Malay leadership said, "We shall take them unto ourselves as brothers, we shall give them full opportunity to live in this country, we shall give them every opportunity to become citizens." And so, in 1957, for the whole year, we waived language qualifications, and tens of thousand of Indians, Chinese, Ceylonese and others became citizens ...As I said, it has been my great good fortune to have been born in this country. Where else can you find a more charitable, a more polite, a more decent race than the Malay race? Where else can you get such politically decent treatment for any immigrant race? Where else in the history of the world? I ask you. These are the facts. Who are you to safeguard us? I am a 10 percent minority race here. But I am happy here.
… in 1955 we won the elections with a great majority. Then we obtained freedom in two years time. During this period, we had to discuss citizenship and various other things. Now what did the Malays do -- since we are speaking on racial lines -- what did the Malay leadership do? They had 88 percent of the electorate still with them. What did they do with citizenship? If we look around in Asia and East Asia, particularly, you will find that my race the Indian race, is not welcomed in Ceylon, is not welcomed in Burma.Look at my brother Chinese race, it is not welcomed in Thailand, in Vietnam, in Cambodia, in all the other areas. What help do they get for citizenship in all these territories? In Burma, as we know, Indians have been send packing, in Ceylon they refused them citizenship and in Burma it is likewise. I know it, you know it. And yet in Malaya what happened? Here we found that the Malay leadership said, "We shall take them unto ourselves as brothers, we shall give them full opportunity to live in this country, we shall give them every opportunity to become citizens." And so, in 1957, for the whole year, we waived language qualifications, and tens of thousand of Indians, Chinese, Ceylonese and others became citizens ...As I said, it has been my great good fortune to have been born in this country. Where else can you find a more charitable, a more polite, a more decent race than the Malay race? Where else can you get such politically decent treatment for any immigrant race? Where else in the history of the world? I ask you. These are the facts. Who are you to safeguard us? I am a 10 percent minority race here. But I am happy here.
ii) Presiden MCA, Tun Tan Siew Sin menjawab mengenai isu 'Hak Istimewa Orang Melayu' seperti dilaporkan oleh akhbar tempatan pada 30 April 1969
The Malays, through UMNO, were generous enough to relax the citizenship laws of this country to such extent that within 12 months of independence, 90 percent of the non-Malays became citizens. This was different to the situation before Merdeka whereas 90 percent of the non-Malays were still non-citizens after nearly 100 years of colonial rule in the Malay States. In return for this major concession. the MCA and the MIC agreed to continue the policy of preserving the special position of the Malays while at the same time upholding the legitimate interest of other communities.
(Sumber: Tan Sri Khalid Awang Osman, Malaysia - An Anthology, Vantage Press, New York)