cakap cakap...Proklamasi Orang Melayu

Selamat Pagi Malaysia.

I am conflicted as to how I am to handle this matter. I cannot ignore it because it is current, and it is in the minds of the Malays and every thinking rakyat of Malaysia. Yes, the Malays are divided, but is this Proklamasi to unite the Malays for political gains or to help the Malays as a race? Or both?

Our Malaysia is today mired in rhetoric and drowning in the stormy seas of politics, race, and religion that threaten its very existence. Malaysia does not only belong to one race. Malaysia does not belong to any one religion. Malaysia cannot be held to ransom by politicians to serve their ends....and Malaysia certainly must not be a haven for thieves and scoundrels that robs, pillages, and strips it of everything and anything of value and honor.

We, you and me, and anyone else out there that calls Malaysia home, and who love and respect that Malaysia and want that Malaysia to be in the image that we have yearned for it to be...a MALAYSIA for everyone who calls it home.... we must be together, committed in intent and united in purpose to make that Malaysia ours.

Does this Proklamasi Orang Melayu go towards those ends?

Let us have an open mind. Let us listen more to what those who are behind this Proklamasi have to say in the coming days as they try to drum up support and solidarity among the Malays for what they are trying to do.

Maybe our PMX may embrace this Proklamasi as an extension of the MADANI concept if this Proklamasi is an attempt to restore the dignity and glory of the Malays - for are not the Malays also Malaysians?

And if the Malays can once again have compassion, care, and respect for the others in Malaysia and, through this Proklamasi, earn their trust....then maybe PMX should embrace this Proklamasi and make it his own, should he not?