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GEORGE TOWN: Bukit Bendera Umno division chief Datuk Ahmad Ismail has refused to apologise over his racist remark calling the Chinese community "immigrants who do not deserve equal rights".

"Why should I apologise? I didn't do anything wrong. Those who do wrong should aplogise but I haven't done anything," Ahmad said when The Star met him outside his Bayan Baru Office yesterday.

He, however refused to comment on whether the press misquoted him.

What you see up there is an excerpt from our local daily which I stumbled upon this morning. And I was absolutely shocked at what I read! What is this country turning into? What future awaits my kids with people like this around?

For my friends that are not of these parts, let me give you a run down on what that is all about and why I feel so ashamed for this country right now. And on a Friday even, which happens to be my favourite day of the week.

This all started during a recently concluded by-election we had that was won by the opposition (rightly so in my opinion) and during the campaign, that learned gentleman up there uttered the words that the Chinese community are just immigrants who do not deserve equal rights. That caused quite a bit of controversy, especially with the Chinese community wanting his head.

You see, I live in a multi racial country and I am proud of it (well, maybe not anymore). We have so many different races and cultures here but there are generally 3 main races, the Malays, Chinese and Indians with the rest like me falling under the 'Others' category. But one thing we all have in common was that we are Malaysians through and through. We all shared the same rights just like every other race in this country.

And so this bigot, Datuk Ahmad Ismail, a division chief (how someone like this becomes a division chief is beyond me) of the ruling political party in this country can utter those degrading remarks about the Chinese community beats the hell out of me. Yeah, sure the Chinese came here from China and all that, so did the Indians. But they all came here to work hard and help build the country together, all three races and us others too of course (hehehe) and became proud citizens of Malaysia.

Anyways, this got the Chinese political parties, both the ruling coalition ones and the opposition ones shouting bloody murder at this racist demanding an explanation. None was forthcoming from him. He disappeared from the limelight and even failed to show up at Police stations requesting his presence to explain his racialistic statements to them. And his excuse was he was leading a Sepak Takraw team for a tournament in Bangkok or something (yeah and I was with Sarah Palin last night ... LOL!).

And yet, this distinguished (I use the term very loosely here) gentleman refused to come forward and explain his statements. It took the Deputy Prime Minister to apologise on his behalf, which I don't see why he had to but it was might decent of the fellow. But as expected, the Chinese community wanted none of that. They wanted this distinguished gentleman himself to apologise and explain that statement and I don't blame them, I would want the same thing if I were in their shoes too.

And today I read in the papers that he says he has done nothing wrong and that he doesn't need to apologise. Only people who do wrong need to apologise. Well, thats fine and dandy Datuk Ahmad. So it's okay to be a racist, ya? It's okay to go and insult another human being, let alone the whole community? Is this guy for real, ah? Which part of practically telling a whole community of Malaysian citizens that they're a bunch of immigrants and that they don't deserve equal rights not wrong?

So it's really not wrong for me to go up to him and say that he's an asshole right? And that's he a bona fide bigot, right? Cos in my opinion I don't think that's wrong too. Sigh, I'm seriously at a loss as to the level of intelligence this Datuk Ahmad has. What really goes through his mind all day? I suppose he thinks he's way above every other human being, the all powerful one and all the rest of us are just useless immigrants squatting here in Malaysia. I wonder if Portugal will take me back cos I sure as hell would love to leave this country right now. People like him make this country a miserable place to live in.

I have loads of friends from all races and nationalities and they're all such nice people. We all get along very well, it doesn't matter about the colour of our skin or the language we speak. We all get along well and live in harmony with each other. I don't think of my Chinese friends as just being Chinese, I don't think of my Indian friends as just being an Indian or my Kadazan or even my American and British blog friends as just being another race. To me, you're all my friends, a fellow human being. Period!

I grew up running around with my Malay buddies, going cycling with my Indian friends, playing football with my Chinese neighbours and never once did I think they didn't deserve to be here or thought of them as a lesser race. Back then times were much better and the country was a great place to live in. If anything were to happen to any one of us, we all stood together side by side and faced it as one. Not as a Malay, Chinese, Indian or Others. We were proud to be known as Malaysians.

But with the likes of people like Datuk Ahmad around, it doesn't speak volumes for the Multi racialness of this country anymore. I hope something can be done and that here is some glimmer of hope or even a tiny speck of light at the end of the tunnel so I can at least be at ease knowing my kids will grow up proud to be a Malaysian and not just as defined under the 'Others' category.

I'm so sorry to have brought up a dismal subject on such a beautiful Friday but like I said in a posting long ago. Stupid and silly people attract me like a moth to a flame. My faith in the powers that be have long since diminished and whoever is going to pull this country through, I hope you do it as a true Malaysian. We're badly in need of some help!
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