SAPP buat lebih baik mengenai isu Bumiputera

MASYARAKAT Sabah perlu mengubah sikap mereka jika inginkan kemajuan. Sikap segelintir masyarakat Bumiputera Kadazandusun dan Melayu pada hari ini yang masih lagi dengan mentaliti 'katak di bawah tempurung' perlu diubah.

Ini termasuklah tanggapan mereka terhadap parti SAPP yang sungguhpun merupakan sebuah parti Cina, tetapi parti inilah yang sebenarnya memperjuangkan hak Bumiputera Kadazandusun dan Melayu.

Bagi saya, hanya SAPP yang boleh membela kepentingan Bumiputera Kadazandusun dan Melayu di Sabah kerana parti tempatan yang lain tidak serius dalam memperjuangkannya.

Reject extremism politics

INANAM: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee urged party members and the people of Sabah to reject the culture of extremism politics, violence, racial and using religion as a tool for political gain from Peninsular into Sabah.
He said that such political culture in Sabah had never existed despite having changed several state governments since the formation of Malaysia.

The Americans have shown the way!

If Obama can be elected as president in a country where the whites are the dominant group, why can't we Malaysians be more liberal and adopt policies to ensure a fair and equal society for our future generations?

Should we not change the New Economic Policy into a "needs-based" economic policy? Wouldn't a more liberalised and fairer policy give us more scope to expand our economic activities and hence avoid being marginalised by those countries outside our own?

The fact that a black man can be elected to be the President of the United States of America, speaks much about the progress of human rights in the evolution of the species called homo sapiens.

Non-racial politics (revisited 3rd time)

Zaid attacks race politics
Amid widespread speculation over his political future, Datuk Zaid Ibrahim has criticised his own party Umno for contributing to race relations problems.
He also urged Umno to engender a more fair-minded administration, and lead the Malays towards having better race relations with non-Malays.

Speaking to the mass-circulation Chinese-language Sin Chew Daily in his most extensive interview since resigning as a member of the Cabinet recently, Zaid also called for more open debates over "sensitive issues”.

He also pointed out that the results of the March general election were a clear message from the people that they wanted change, but the government had failed to change. (Quoted from MalaysianInsider)

Non-racial politics (revisited)

Racial extremism, is it what you want?

In the run-up to the Permatang Pauh by-election, Ahmad Ismail had said at a ceramah that the Chinese community were mere "squatters" in the country and thus were not entitled to be given equal rights in Malaysia.

Ahmad, who has refused to apologise for describing the Chinese as squatters in the country while campaigning in the recent Permatang Pauh by-election, claims his speech was taken out of context by the Sin Chew vernacular newspaper, which reported the incident in its Aug 25 edition.

Sin Chew stressed that Tan in her nine years of as a reporter has covered various political conferences and speeches and “no mistakes were ever made” in her writing.

(Sep 8): In an explosive 50-minute press conference, Ahmad vowed that he would not apologise for his remarks which sparked the controversy. The press conference, which was held at the Penang Umno headquarters, ended with shouts of 'Hidup Melayu' from about 50 local party leaders who were there.

Soon after the event, former Penang Umno committee member Zainol Abidin Hashim, with the help from his colleagues pulled down the photo of Gerakan acting president Dr Koh Tsu Koon which adorned one of the walls in the party headquarters. Koh's picture frame, which sat next to the photos of the Penang governor and his wife, was subsequently smashed.

As the glass broke into pieces, Zainol removed Koh's photo from the frame and tore it into half.

SAPP for non-racial politics

Yong Teck Lee: "The land slide victory of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim augurs well for non-racial politics in Malaysia. The rejection of racial politics shown in the March general elections has been repeated resoundingly by the voters of Permatang Pauh of whom 69% are Malays."