Press statement by Teresa Kok, Selangor State Senior EXCO and MP for Seputeh in Shah Alam on 21 April 2011
MCA leaders’ failure to condemn Utusan Malaysia’s racist call for 1Melayu 1Bumi proves again how powerless MCA is against UMNO
It’s been two days since the recalcitrant UMNO-owned Utusan Malaysia fanned the flames of racial disunity by calling for a 1Melayu, 1Bumi movement to battle the so-called Chinese challenge to Malay dominance in Malaysia, and yet, MCA leaders are still conspicuously silent on the matter.
The only reported statement by MCA on the matter is a quote of MCA Vice-President Liow Tiong Lai saying, “Utusan cannot generalise the whole thing. It has nothing to do with race. It has more to do with the urban needs and the rural needs.” (Source: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/mca-sarawak-chinese-voted-on-urban-rural-lines-not-race/ )
How weak, meek and gentle Liow was towards Utusan Malaysia’s incendiary call, to say nothing of how Utusan Malaysia’s call was the ultimate insult to Prime Minister Najib Razak’s 1Malaysia which MCA claims to support.
MCA’s reticent response to Utusan Malaysia is expected given MCA’s track record of handling Utusan Malaysia’s with kid gloves. They can’t not kowtow to Utusan Malaysia for fear of offending UMNO, owner of Utusan Malaysia and the dominant party of Barisan Nasional (BN).
This shows that the BN “power-sharing” system preached by MCA to uphold the interest of the Chinese and other races in Malaysia is a complete and utter fraud. It cannot be real or effective if MCA can’t even express the outrage towards Utusan Malaysia being voiced out by the very Malaysians of Chinese descent which MCA claims to represent.
Liow’s statement is in fact an attempt to backpaddle from the race-based BN structure which they have propped up for MCA’s own political expediency.
Furthermore, Liow’s statement that race is not a factor is a direct contradiction of his earlier statement that it was racial polarization that had lead to SUPP’s Chinese candidates being ousted in the Sarawak state elections. (Source: http://www.sinchew.com.my/node/201337?tid=1 )
It appears that Liow switches his position depending on what is most politically expedient for him and MCA at the moment.
However, I am pleased that Liow now acknowledged the truth that DAP did not win our seats on racial politics and that DAP also received substantial support of non-Chinese community in Sarawak.
I urge MCA leaders to grow a backbone and openly condemn Utusan Malaysia’s 1Melayu 1Bumi movement, as Pakatan Rakyat leaders have done, if MCA is to have any credibility as the party that upholds the interests of the Chinese that they claim to be.
Teresa Kok
that’s what I call sassy……keep it up! That Liow fella is a typical nincompoop MCA Mahatir bred product…Just dont go to near him lest you get infected with dumbness in d brain.
Dear MCA, you see not every Chinese Malaysian is stupid, many are so much more cleverer than most of you in the party.The Chinese community in Malaysia has been threatened with all kinds of idiotic,mindless,uncivil actions or rhetorics by Umno and now Perkasa assisted by Utusan,yet you guys did nothing meaningful to stop them except a few neither here nor there murmurs, so the last thing we want is another veiled threat from supposedly our own representatives.The message you guys are giving out is if we don’t support MCA solidly next GE,the Chinese will not have any more representation(say)in the government and the govt. bothers us not anymore.SINCE WHEN MCA,GERAKAN OR FOR THAT MATTER,MIC,PPP,IPF ETC HAD ANY REAL INFLUENCE IN GOVT?!If you all had any say, we (the minorities)would not be in such dire straits today where the majority race just don’t care a damn how we feel-don’t like it get out.What the Chinese or other minorities are misbehaving these days are manifestation of the decades of living under these unfair conditions ofwhich you guys pretended not to know.By right you should use your influence in govt. to get rid of all these bad apples,otherwise it means you have no influence at all in govt.So why the need to sit in the meetings when you have little or no say?To look good to us?Whether in or out of govt.the minorities have no say in govt. as proven by all of you in your parties.Do you get us?
Mau Cari Angpau maa, so cannot criticize boss.
Now is 1Melayu 1Bumi next 1Melayu 1 UMNO and later 1UMNO no any more others> Waiting to happen soon if no true Malaysian come out to lead the country.