So far the chinese in malaysia is being quiet, but will the day
come when even the chinese cannot take the rampant discrmination
anymore like the indians?
Firty two years ago, LKY said in the Malaysian Parliament:-
In the 1965 session of Parliament, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee
Kuan Yew (who was also a Member of that Parliament) questioned the
implementation of Malay rights as proposed. Lee asked, "How does
the Malay in the kampong find his way out into this modernised
civil society? By becoming servants of the 0.3 per cent who would
have the money to hire them to clean their shoe, open their
motorcar doors?" and "How does telling a Malay bus driver that he
should support the party of his Malay director (UMNO) and the
Chinese bus conductor to join another party of his Chinese director
(MCA) how does that improve the standards of the Malay bus driver
and the Chinese bus conductor who are both workers in the same
company?"
Lee closed with "Meanwhile, whenever there is a failure of
economic, social and educational policies, you come back and say,
oh, these wicked Chinese, Indian and others opposing Malay rights.
They don't oppose Malay rights. They, the Malay, have the right as
Malaysian citizens to go up to the level of training and education
that the more competitive societies, the non-Malay society, has
produced. That is what must be done, isn't it? Not to feed them
with this obscurantist doctrine that all they have got to do is to
get Malay rights for the few special Malays and their problem has
been resolved."
It soon became clear that the PAP's campaign for a Malaysian
Malaysia under the Malaysian Solidarity Convention as an indirect
challenge against the racial policies was not well received by the
ruling Alliance, led by the United Malays National Organisation
(UMNO). Amidst the escalating communal issues in the state of
Singapore, and the problems regarding the persistent neglect of the
Federal Government concerning the economy of Singapore, Lee
announced Singapore's separation from Malaysia on 9 August 1965,
hours after the Malaysian Prime Minister made a similar
announcement in the Malaysian Parliament.