Be it 18.9% or 45%, here comes something refreshing.

At a public forum titled "Is the NEP still revelant?", Penang economic Planning and Education committee chairman Dr Toh Kin Woon that race was only a masquerade for the adoption of policies that served the elite, especially those close to the leaders.

However, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak was quick to dismiss the notion, saying that the policy has succeeded in reducing the poverty rate from over 50 per cent prior to the introduction of the NEP to five per cent now.

"So, I totally reject the contention that the NEP has benefited only certain groups," […]

"Many non-Malays have received the spillover and contracts from the government and also certain approvals."

Hear it well, the supplementary factor of the NEP implementation is for non-Malays to to receive the "spillover and contracts" from the Government. Fine.

But the best part is, he said, under the NEP, had also created many opportunities for the non-Malays to the extent that many non-Malay corporate leaders had become rich during the period of its implementation.

Can’t you see the differences? You can’t tell the people that you’re creating many opportunities for certain group when they are at the another receiving only the "spillover".

Meanwhile, Najib agreed that several speeches during the Umno general assembly last week can be regarded as extremist, but it’s not right to assume those speeches reflect Umno’s stand.

Scrap the proceedings live in the future? By all means, scrap it. Malaysians have had enough of ethnocentrism talks, we can live without it.

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