SSUS for a better understanding....

I've been extremely busy this last week, in fact I still am so I'll make this short.

The One School for All (SSUS) campaign has attracted a lot of publicity, either in cyber space or in the real space. Why? Because the proponents that attack this noble cause of unification are spinning it the other way around.

Instead of seeing the SSUS campaign for it's value: forging unity and better understanding among the young, these racists have turned around and called the campaign an attack against vernecular schools.

They have even gone so far as to quote the constitution. Saying that it is their right to maintain vernecular schools. These rights, in their view, must not and cannot be challenged as if it were carved in stone.

That being the case, I suggest that they too shut the hell up when think they need to question Bumiputra rights and privilages. Our special rights were carved in stone too. What makes you so special and us not?

Enough of bending over and taking it up our behinds. If certain leaders or their kind (meaning racist) wish to lodge police reports against the organizers of this initiative, I say do it and face the consequences of the same. Since the so-called victory of our "guests" in this land last March, the racists have come out in droves requesting this and that be changed, reduced, wiped-out in the name of equality and fairness. Meritocracy, kononnya, should be the order of the day. A level playing field is harped and barked each chance they get.

Isn't having a "One School for All" levelling the playing field? Isn't it meritocracy when they are all judged on merit when they sit for the SAME exams in the SAME schools teaching the SAME syllabus? Isn't putting them under the SAME care of the SAME teachers equal and fair?

If you want to keep your SJK's, by all means do so but please don't ever you dare question the rights of others when you don't allow others the same benefit. And they have the cheek to harp and bark about equality. Pegidah!!!! I've heard so much of these types using the phrase "walk the talk". A rhetoric of theirs that they themselves cannot practice.

And what's up with the police report? Didn't they all say that they wanted freedom of speech, the right to discuss, agreeing to disagree blah, blah, blah, blah.... Tong kosong. Cakap tak serupa bikin. With freedom of speech comes freedom of expressing views, thoughts and ideas. If the proposers are asked to shut up with threats of legal action and police investigations then they are no more open about freedom of speech as say Myanmar then. Lock us all up for having ideas will you?

This is not about BN vs Pakatan anymore. This is about the betterment of society. Improving race-relations. I personally hate the word "tolerant". Why do we say racial "tolerance"? To tolerate something is to put up with it even though we hate it. That's tolerance. We should instead be promoting better "understanding". Through better "understanding" comes respect and knowing one's boundaries and that's what the One School for All aims to achieve, among other National agendas, a better "understanding".

As an example, I have a neighbour who has an irritating dog whom my neighbour let's loose out of his compund every now and then. The dog ocassionally comes near me and I avoid it, in the process I get annoyed. Simply because the animal is Najis Mughallazah. The owner then comes to me and tries to tell me that his dog does not bite. Who the hell cares if it bites or not? I don't want it near because to me my religion has guidelines regarding contact with such animals. Had my neighbour had a better "understanding" of Malays' do's and don'ts (and vice-versa), that stupid, repeatative situation would not have occured. But because of the lack of "understanding", we instead have "tolerance". I "tolarate" his ignorance and my neighbour "tolarates" my annoyance. Is this how we want our society to evolve?

For the betterment of multi-racial race-relations look at the bigger picture please. Unifying us together as Malaysians does not make me less Malay or less Muslim and certainly does not make my neighbour any less Chinese. Instead it promotes a better understanding of our different-raced Malaysian brothers and sisters. When they are schooled together, they'll study together, play together, eat together and more importantly "understand" each other, respect and be aware of the do's and don'ts of their colleagues' race and/or religion. It will work both ways, trust me. Is creating that awarenes through better undertsanding too much to ask?

This is bigger than politics so stop being manipulated by wanna-be populist politicians like Wee Ka Siong and look at the bigger picture please....

Cheers!