EVEN before campaigning began for what is expected to be heated state elections this month, a senior politician delivered a venomous narrative of a broken Malaysia on a platform provided by a political party that once was his sworn enemy.
When Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad recited that tired old story of Malaysia belonging to one race, and that other races are just “guests”, or pendatang, it hurt me to the core.
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