The
Malay Peninsula Instructs the USA on How to Ease Racial Tensions
by
J. Parnell McCarter
2014 was another year in which racial tensions flared in the
USA, this time between the African American community and the national
establishment (largely white). Large
protests and even some rioting accompanied the Michael Brown and Eric Garner
cases, in which these two black men died during their encounters with police
officers. Americans came to realize that years of government-sponsored
affirmative action programs and the election of a black US president had done
little to ease racial tensions. If we
care to listen, the Malay Peninsula has much to say about a practical way to
ease many of these racial tensions.
The racial tensions that
existed on the Malay peninsula are described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Singapore#Racial_tension
:
“On 16 September 1963, Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo
and Sarawak were formally merged and Malaysia
was formed… Racial tensions increased as the
Chinese in Singapore disdained being discriminated against by the federal
policies of affirmative action, which granted special
privileges to the Malays guaranteed under Article 153 of the
Constitution of Malaysia. There were also other financial and economic
benefits that were preferentially given to Malays. Lee Kuan
Yew and other political leaders began advocating for the fair and equal
treatment of all races in Malaysia, with a rallying cry of "Malaysian Malaysia!".
Meanwhile, the Malays in Singapore were being increasingly incited by
the federal government's accusations that the PAP was mistreating the Malays…The
most notorious riots were the 1964
Race Riots that first took place on Prophet Muhammad's birthday
on 21 July with twenty three people killed and hundreds injured. During the
unrest, the price of food skyrocketed when transport system was disrupted,
causing further hardship for the people.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Singapore#Separation
describes how these racial tensions were eased on the Malay peninsula:
“Seeing no other alternative to avoid further bloodshed, the Malaysian Prime
Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman decided to expel Singapore from the federation. Goh Keng Swee,
who had become skeptical of merger's economic benefits for Singapore, convinced
Lee Kuan Yew that the separation had to take place.
UMNO and PAP representatives worked out the terms of separation in extreme
secrecy in order to present the British government, in particular, with a fait
accompli. On the morning of 9 August
1965, the Parliament of Malaysia voted 126–0 in favor of a constitutional
amendment expelling Singapore from the federation; hours later, the Parliament
of Singapore passed the Republic of Singapore Independence Act, establishing
the island as an independent and sovereign republic.”
The lesson of the Malay peninsula
is that affirmative
action programs increase and do not decrease racial tensions, whereas allowing
separate ethnic homeland nations eases racial tensions. Do American politicians have the foresight
and fortitude to implement the sort of peaceful partition I advocate at http://www.puritans.net/articles/plan.htm
, or will they continue to be cowed by fears of the “racist” label? In 2014 Dr. David Murray's main suggestion to
ease racial tensions at http://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/12/04/i-cant-breathe-but-i-must-write/?utm_source=HeadHeartHand+Blog&utm_campaign=34982f2548-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5efef10d9e-34982f2548-110849305
was a massive increase in black police
officers (likely through affirmative action) , whereas mine was to let African
Americans and
Anglo Americans to each have our own separate ethnic homeland nations where
each is a ruling majority in its own homeland, like was done on the Malay
peninsula. Those who think my recommendation for the USA is immoral to be
consistent should be calling for a repeal of what happened on the Malay peninsula in 1965. The reality is that the Malay peninsula offers a wise way of addressing our racial
tensions in the USA.