The guy who was local ethnic politician and community leader was showing his displeasure that the venue of the youth program was to be held at the town centre community hall which was built and managed by the Chinese community. He wanted to shifted the venue to another hall which was out of town and will not attract the public to participate due to transportation limitation. His proposal was clearly not supported by all in the meeting including officers from government agencies who attended the meeting.
His confrontational attitude has been very obvious and can be clearly felt the moment my colleague and I arrived from Kuala Lumpur to attend the program's local organising committee meeting. It came to our realisation later this sort of behaviour coming from a local community leader with a Datuk title in front of his name was due to his mental block in coming to terms with the whole set up of the program.
Since it was a program for the youth, the Ministry of Youth and Sports had assigned the task of hosting and managing it to a Chinese-based national level youth organisation. The launching ceremony of the program was decided by the youth organisation to be held in a town which they are confident to have good response and also manpower to organise it. Since it is a Chinese-based youth organisation naturally the head and committee members are mostly Chinese.
This guy must be shocked when the representative who showed up from the Malaysian Youth Council (MYC)who are tasked to monitor and advised on the program is also a Chinese youth leader who is also a vice president of the MYC. This guy was so "irritated" by this situation that during the meeting he blurted out his narrow-minded thought when he commented that the program is "too Chinese"!
My goodness! I said to myself. Where does this guy comes from? Where has he been living all this while? We were trying to organise a program for the youth and community and this guy couldn't accept that the people who are running it are mostly Chinese youth leaders and starts to throw racialistic views into the meeting. The biggest joke of all is that the purpose of the program itself will be 100% purely non-racial. It was a blood donation campaign!
Is the color of the blood of a Chinese, Malay, Indian, Iban and a Kadazan is of any difference? NO! All our blood are RED irrespective of our racial origin, state, country or continent. Maybe I can't say much for those beings from other planets whose blood, if they have any, are red in color.
I would like to think this guy attitude is not due to his blood color is any different from any of us but is cause by the colors he sees in his heart. He just can't accept the reality that the whole government organised and sponsored program was run by youth leaders who happens to be Chinese.
Most in this country has been accepting leadership by people of different background with an open heart, color blind and warm embrace. Why certain people can't behave the same without any tinkle of domination, narrow-mindedness, myopic view and making judgment based on colors of the skin?
We need to be far-sighted, magnanimous and big-hearted if we want's to develop and continue living peacefully in this colorful country. - Loka
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