Racial Policies

Everytime I read about racial policies that have been given the green light by the government in the name of eradicating poverty among a specific race and to raise their economic status, it reminds of South Africa when apartheid was the in-thing then. The Africaners used that policy to maintain the supremacy of the minority white over the black majority in that country.

From CNN online news I read that in SUVA, Fiji, there is trouble brewing over a policy just like that. The government was trying to pass a legislation through parliament two land rights bills that Bainimarama says would unfairly favor Fiji's indigenous majority over the large ethnic Indian minority. Who is this Bainimarama? An outsider? A white human rights activist? A Fijian Indian maybe? No! He is an ethnic Fijian who knows what is right and what is unjust and has decided to do something about it.












Fiji military chief - Frank Bainimarama

I salute this man who dares to go against his fellow countrymen and his government for his beliefs. The legislation aims to give all the coastal land to the ethnic Fijians and he feels that this is a racial based policy which is not good for Fiji as there are other races living and working there who will lose out.

I wish we had such a leader in our country. All we have are tripods who are just waiting to be promoted and receive a fat paycheck. To hell with the people and their rights. We have a lot of little Napoleons serving in the various government departments issuing out their own racial policies in the name of helping one particular race - the Malays.

A calssic example would be the Negeri Sembilan Education Department. They issued a circular to 3 town schools with regards to the new student intake. 90% must be bumiputra and the remaining 10% for the non-bumiputras. The non-bumiputra must have scored 7 A's but no mention is made of what is the requirement for the bumiputras! One parent (non-bumiputra) complained about this policy in the papers and the HQ in Putrajaya must have had many phone calls. In todays Star, the Negeri Sembilan Education Department has been directed to withdraw that circular because the Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said the circular was against the ministry’s policy of inculcating integration in national schools. It needed the Federal government to intervene to put right the matter.

Does it really end there? I don't think so. There are so many worms that have been let out of the woodwork and are sitting in high places because of racial policies favouring them. We need Bainimarama's to clean this corruption before we sink like the Titanic.