We live our lives as usual, with or without MCA minister. Only the MCA cronies want to fight for a minister post. It should not even be an issue if there is no Chinese representative in the cabinet. Rightfully, a person who is appointed as a minister should be colour blind when he carrying out his duties. He should not have give preferential treatment to any race group. Apparently, Malaysia has its own standard where everything is race based.Personally, I think it is OK not to have Chinese ministers in the cabinet, on the ground that the the cabinet post allocation is not base on merit. These less important minister portfolios were given to MCA just something symbolic under BN’s power sharing spirit. Hence, it makes no different who is there to serve the people. i.e. I mean, non-MCA chaps may do a better job
As a rightful Malaysia citizen of Chinese descends, it is regrettable that the Chinese, known for being excellent in both business and finance related fields, were not appointed as ministers for the above ministry since 1974. For instance, after Tun Tan Siew Sin’s resignation in 1974, there was no non-malay ever appointed as Finance Minister (except for the Mamak who appointed himself. I insist that mamak is non-malay, no matter what they claim themselves to be). Same in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). After Dr. Lim Swee Aun in 1969, the minister posts were held only by the candidates from Umno.
I’m puzzled, if people like Muhyiddin Yassin can be appointed a minister for MITI, I don’t see any reason why MCA’s men not qualified for the job. I believe this happened because of Umno’s racist core value rather than there was no competent candidate from MCA or other BN component parties that can take up the post.
If Umno dares to ignore the Chinese appeals. Go ahead and fight only for the Malay votes which are also shared by PKR & PAS. See if Umno can continue to rule without the support of the chinese.
