Selangor exco member Teresa Kok has challenged the Najib administration to abolish the ‘race’ column on all government 
forms to prove its sincerity in attaining 1Malaysia’s goals.
In a statement today, Kok (right) said that having this requirement on government forms discourages Malaysians from identifying themselves as simply Malaysians.
“For all Najib’s extravagant 1Malaysia advertising and logos liberally plastered all over government uniforms, government buildings and election freebies, it is all meaningless.
“When it comes to actual policy, Najib does not practise what he preaches, which is a united Malaysia where all Malaysian are equal,” she said in reference to the National Registration Department’s (NRD) refusal to allow Subang Jaya state assemblyperson Hannah Yeoh to register her daughter’s race as ‘Anak Malaysia.’
Kok said Najib must show sincerity toward 1Malaysia and take steps to abolish the ‘race’ column in all government forms.
Sincerity vs political expediency
“If Najib genuinely believed in 1Malaysia, he would have long instructed NRD and his entire government to stop categorising Malaysians as ‘Melayu’, ‘Cina’, ‘Indian’, or ‘Others’.
“These are labels that BN imposes upon Malaysians from birth, denying us from self-identifying ourselves and each other as being simply Malaysian for their selfish political expediency,” she said.
A check with several NRD branches revealed that there are three separate rules for the registration of a child’s ethnic status according to locality.
In Sabah, a child can be classified as mixed race, while in Sarawak, the child’s race will be the same as the father. In peninsular Malaysia, a child’s race will be the same as either parent.
How come in Sarawak the child’s race is the same as the father when shenanigan Mahathir’s grand father was an Indian and his grand father is a Malay and he is a Malay too ?
Shouldn’t the shenanigan Mahathir be classified as an Indian just like Sarawak or at best a mamak ? Or is it because there is a shortage of Malays of some grey matters and as a consequence they then classified him as a Malay just like they do to most of the half breeds in Umno and thus with legislation that the half breeds are also considered to be Malays ? What a crying shame, have some real Malays especially some with grey matters, even though it is hard to do so !
Maybe the people should take the initiative here?
I know that anywhere I can get away with it, I just put a ‘-‘ where it says Race & also Religion. Usually it is none of their business and they never notice.
Maybe I should change it to 1Malaysia instead?
Malay should not classified as a race… it should classify as the people living in the Malay Archipelago, be it Filippino, Bugis, MinangKabau, Dayak, Java, Bali, Peranakan, India, Chinese, etc… and should not adhere to any particular religion.
Malaysia wants Malay classified as race because of its name, “Malay-sia”, also with intention to monopolized the land under this name, so that it can assimilate the people with one kind of culture… just like the communist China “tindakan kejam” towards the people in Tibet, East Kazastan, Inner Mongolian and assimilate as One united China.
…No difference with the power greed corrupted communist.