出处∶星洲互动∽情在人间
作者∶陈宝卿
发表日期∶29-04-08
近一个月来，政坛出现一些罕见的现象；一些政治人物的言论，顛覆性之高，让人耳目一新。
这些在报章上一言一语掷地有声者，不是人民联盟內刚刚坐进国会议席的菜鸟，而是曾在党政机构担任高职、或是在任高官或是族群领导人，民眾几十年来已经熟悉的面孔。
最具有代表性的，是在政坛称霸多年的拉菲达。她在沙巴说：“新一代马来西亚人民已不接受狭隘的种族主义。”
以拉姐在巫统妇女组的超级地位，这句话固然说得迟了点，但迟说终究比没说好。巫统妇女组內各年龄阶层的马来女性，倘若能从拉菲达的话觉悟到真理，接受新的思维，未来由她们抚育长大的阿里和阿末，就不会天生有“土著”的思想，而种族主义也不会有成长的土壤。
曾和马哈迪拗手瓜失败，退党后又再吃回头草，在巫统陷入春秋战国之乱的时刻又期待咸鱼翻生的巫统元老东姑拉沙里，针对巫统大选惨败而批它三宗罪，其中一宗是指巫统没有超越种族的政策和愿景，只为马来人斗爭。他认为巫统必须是一个“全民政党，不分种族公平对待全民。”
几十年来，巫统都是只为马来人斗爭，政策下让马来人享有各种各样的优惠不说，开党会议还要喊口號高举剑宣示，惟恐天下不知。非马来人社会惶恐怨愤，也已习以为常，今日东姑里竟要巫统做一个“全民政党”，不仅马来社会震惊，华印社会也感到受宠若惊。
而过去忽视非马来人感受，三度在巫青大会上举剑的年轻一辈领导人希山慕丁，在巫统惨败之后恍然大悟，说：“如果举剑造成伤害，愿意道歉。”
我们不知道，他所指的造成伤害，是指对巫统还是指对非马来人造成伤害；如果是前者，那是巫统內部的家事，如果是后者，则证明此次政治海啸果然势不可挡。
显然，在市场上横行半个世纪的“种族主义”，没有被3月8日这场所谓的政治海啸席捲而去，至少也受到不小的衝击。
这些“去种族主义”的话语，从一党独大的巫统领袖口里溜出来，背后有甚么议程和动机，我们不知道，不过能够肯定的是，如果他们能早几年说出来，国阵今天就不至沉沦到此地步。
儘管如此，希望这些“革新”的言论，带有一点诚意，不要到了党选过后，又风消云散，让人民再一次尝到受到愚弄的滋味。
国阵在大选惨败的主要原因，恐怕是没有意识到，世界各国的距离已经愈来愈小，民主和公平愈来愈是文明社会的普世价值观的大趋势，而在这种趋势之下，种族主义实际上已经落伍，已经没有市场了。
国內各大政党，不管是巫统、马华、或国大党等，都不能再继续扮演只为本身族群斗爭的角色，都应该考虑开放门户，接纳各种族入党，成为正式的全民政党，公平地为全民服务，才是大马政局未来的新希望。
作者：陈宝卿‧言论不代表本站立场
No Place For Racism
By TAN POH KHENG,Sin Chew Daily
Translated by LEE MEI NYEE
Last month, some rare political phenomena surfaced. The speeches of some politicians are controversial that got people excited. These politicians are not the Pakatan Rakyat rookies who just joined the Parliament. They are the politicians who hold high position in political and government organisations or the leaders of their race group.
The most representative of them is the experienced politician Rafidah. She said in Sabah that: “The new generation of Malaysians do not accept narrow racism.”
Even though this sentence came slightly slow from this No. 1 leader in Umno Wanita, but it is still better than nothing. If the Malay women in the Umno Wanita understand the truth and accept the new thinking, the children they bring up in the future will not be born with the concept of “Bumiputra”. Racism has no way to grow, too.
Tengku Razaleigh, who once lost to Mahathir, accused Umno of three faults for the recent elections setback. One of his accusations is Umno does not go beyond the racial policies and vision. It fights only for the Malays. He thinks that Umno must be a “national political party, and treat the people fairly regardless of their races”.
Over the past decades, Umno serves only the Malays. Malays enjoy a wide range of concessions under various policies. The party even shouted slogans and waved kris during their general assemblies. The fear and the social discontent of the non-Malays have become known. When Razaleigh wants Umno to become a “national party”, not only the Malay community is shocked, the Chinese and the India community also feel flattered.
In the past, the younger generation leader Hishammuddin, who has ignored the feelings of the non-Malays, and waved kris three times in the Umno youth general assemblies suddenly came to realise the truth after the elections setback. He said: “If it (kris-waving) affected anyone,, I'm willing to apologise”.
We do not know twho he was referring to. Was it meant for Umno or the non-Malays. If the “affected parties” meant the former, then it is Umno's family matter. If it is for the latter, then the recent political tsunami is really unstoppable.
Obviously, the “racism” which has been rampant for half century has at least been greatly impacted by the so-called 8 Mar political tsunami. We do not know if the Umno leaders who said “no more racism” have any personal agendas or motives. However, surely, if they said these words few years earlier, the BN would not face this situation.
Nevertheless, we hope that these “reform” remarks will be accompanied by some sincerity. It shouldn't disappear after the party elections and let the people to be fooled again.
Probably, the BN is still not aware that the main reason of the recent elections setback is the distance between the countries in the world is getting nearer. Democratic and fair society is the universal values of civilization. Under this the general trend, racism is, in fact, already outdated and has no place inour society.
All major domestic political parties, be it Umno, MCA, MIC and so on, could not continue to play the role of fighting only for their own race groups. They should consider opening up their membership, become an universal political party formally and serve all the people fairly. Then, it is only the new hope for Malaysia's future politics.
( The opinions expressed by the writer do not necessarily reflect those of MySinchew )
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