By Haris Ibrahim
Farida just reminded me of a post I had put up here more than two years ago.
With all the hate-talk that we hear so often these days, it does not seem out of place to reproduce that posting again.
It represents my state of mind and all that I feel, as an anak Bangsa Malaysia.
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When he hears the racist call to shed the blood of this group or that, or the claims that one group is supreme over others, or has more rights, he asks, if not of the racist speaker, at least of himself :
‘Are we not all human? What is the rationale for this class or group discrimination? Different colour? Different culture? Different religion? Some were here before the others and therefore are more superior? The larger in number are the mightier? Can these factors justify these discriminations?’
This is the mind of anak Bangsa Malaysia.
In his mind, all this does not seem right.
The hate-language continues to play on the mind of anak Bangsa Malaysia.
He is greatly burdened by this talk of blood-spilling, by this ‘us and them’, ‘do not like it, get out’, ‘this is our land,your fathers were migrants’, ‘we gave you citizenship’ talk.
‘These are my people. Yes, all of them. No, not just my clan. All of them. They are my brothers and my sisters. Why would you want to hurt them? How can I just watch as you deny their children what my children have? I love their children as I love my own. Ignore their hunger because they are not of my race, of my faith? What God would have me do that? Not my God. No, I will not let you hurt them. They are my people. I love my people. Yes, all of them. Yes, even you. Please, please stop saying these things. It hurts my people and it hurts me.”
No, this is not the mind of anak Bangsa Malaysia.
This is his heart.
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