Does Mahathir understand what part he played in dividing Malaysians?

I recently commented on TDM's blogsite on an article he posted on the present situation where he was comparing Malays being labelled racists for poor-thought-off comments, but not when it was conceived by Malaysians of other heritage...

pls read my reply and hopefully you'll share with me your thoughts:

TDM

for once I agree with you - it's unfortunate when a Malaysian of a Malay heritage says something about his/her fellow Malaysian that may touch on their heritage in some shape form, it's deemed racist, but not when it's implied by Malaysians of Chinese or Indian or any other origin.

I wonder if such situations like the Hindraf action, or even this sense of segregation could have been avoided if there were laws in the land that basically did not segregate Malaysians based on any classification system.

Do you think under your leadership, you ever considered that once a person is categorised a Malaysian, there will be no further sub-classification?

In America, Australia and New Zealand - the only differentiation between a Citizen (born) against a Citizen (Naturalised), is only a Citizen (born) can be elected leader of state (President, PM). And even such legislative restrictions are being reviewed.

But in Malaysia, you can't disagree that Malaysians have been segregated bringing about this sense of mistrust and ill-feelings. So whose fault is it that common folk are getting disgusted with their fellow Malaysians for some poor-thought-of remarks - I hope you will take some responsibility in this situation by agreeing you could have done more in bridging that divide.

Of course, you can also do the consistent thing that you've been involved in these last few months - blame it on PM Abdullah. Why not, after all, he gets to wear all the problems you've left behind for him.

All the best TDM !

(Ravi)