Speech by DAP Organising Secretary, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, to the Pudu DAP Branch Protem Committee on Tuesday, March 26, 1968 at 7.30 p.m.
In the last few years, the Alliance has created a new and dangerous source of friction, conflict and disunity for the people of Malaysia, which has set back the process of nation building by at least ten years.
I am referring to the Alliance’s division of Malaysians into ‘bumiputeras’ and ‘non-bumiputeras’, based not on loyalty, citizenship or birthplace, but purely on the colour of the skin.
A non-Malay citizen of Malaysia, born, bred and educated in this country, with unswerving loyalty to Malaysia, is ‘a non-bumiputera’. On the other hand, an immigrant from the Indonesian islands, whether he had been there for a week or a month, becomes a ‘bumiputera’?
Is this the way to build a nation of Malaysians? Is this the formula to instill a Malaysian consciousness and identity among the various racial groups in this country? Continue reading The poison of bumiputeraism