Malay Rights, ICERD, Cikgu Khairuddin and Mr Nava

Shortly after the so called 'Malay Rights Provisions' were entrenched into the Constitution, two teachers, one ethnic Malay, and the other an ethnic Indian took a pupil - like so many others - and set him on his way. This is their story. What would these men have done had they been confronted with the kind of racist Hate Speeches we've encountered all of last week?

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Our execrable Education System

Long ago, Lat drew a cartoon. It compared a study on mosquitoes carried out by a foreign scholar and a Malaysian one.  The foreign scholar is shown with a stack of books (volumes 1 to 5).  The Malaysian scholar has a wafer-thin manuscript with an arrow that says: ‘Ini adalah nyamuk.’  Do you remember that? Lat should come out of retirement! That just about sums up the state of our schools. Most ...

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