Shut up! You're redundant.

CAMBRIDGE: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad feels that Malaysia will continue to have race-based parties unless the people can think of themselves exclusively as Malaysians.

The former prime minister said the reality of the situation was that the people were still conscious and felt strongly about their race.

Those were the first two paragraphs of a report in today's "Star". The racist has spoken. Look at how he has cleverly directed the blame on the people. Sometimes I just wished that there was someone or something that can make this dangerous man go away! Somehow, in UMNO's giant scheme of things, they have found it necessary to instill race consciousness in our society, and they have certainly helped by making it compulsory for us to state our race in whatever government generated forms that we may have to fill out from time to time. So how can we be at fault? It was his racist regime that inculcated this practice! Instead of repeating what everyone else has articulated sometime or other, I would like to reproduce a poem (if you could call it that) I once wrote. Here it is.

The Man Who Could Do No Wrong?

He once ruled a nation of multiple ethnicities
In a climate of fear lived the minorities
An “A” student of British indoctrination
He divided and ruled the nation


In time, he retired, leaving a trail of injustices
All brought about by this doctor’s malpractices
For it was he who promulgated "ketuanan melayu"
And the nationalists said "Boo!"


He retired with an anointed successor
Who turned out to be a curse for his predecessor
Now he’s back as a prosecutor
Instigating his ‘once-nemesis’ to be the executioner