MCA - Is it still relevant?

After the tsunami of the 12th General Election of Malaysia, all political parties were sent reeling into, "shock and awe" by the voting citizens of Malaysia and one might ask what went wrong? and why?

Well since I am of chinese orgin, let talk about the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), which was suppose to be the back bone and the crusader for the chinese community in Malaysia.
I am a chinese adult with no political affiliation therefore rendering me apolitical, but I still have personal views that I feel is still relevant in the Malaysian context.

The MCA is a prehistoric dinosaur which is so wrapped up in their leaders personal agenda for the past 50 years that they have forgotten the reason why the party was first formed in the early years prior to independence.

They keep harping on issues which predates the social problems of the chinese community prior to independence i.e. chinese schools, argriculture land titles, new villages, scholarships etc and it never dawn onto them that in the 21st century, evolution in terms of technology, education and western influence is very predominant in our daily lives and the chinese community in particular has evolved into sophisticated intelligent human being who posses the ability to reason and not just accept any "crap' being thrown at them.

Gone are the days where the chinese community or guilds would run to their elected representatives for advise, help and all that jazz to get thru their daily lives and business routine.

I can safely vouch for the fact that a big portion or at least 50% of the chinese community does not care for the existence of MCA or need their help to chart a better life style or to better their standard of living as all they ever wanted was, only a fair chance to compete and what has MCA done thus far???????? Not much to be exact albeit the ranting and hype and publicity the MCA is defending our chinese rights before we are all driven out of Malaysia as if we never belonged to the country.

I for one and my immediate family or my parents can definately confirm that we had never sought help, assistance or grants from MCA since our existence and why should we start now since, my success and failures are due only to my sheer hard work or sheer misjudgement in life of which I can only blame myself.

The only thing that the Malaysian government did was to provide an acceptable infrastructures and public faclilities and legal protection (police etc) to her citizen which I am entitled to or every Malaysian citizen is entitled to, in this respect. The Goverment do not even provide level playing for education, businees opportunities etc for the matter, and all of us sincerely feels like 2nd class citizens so much so that we perserve and strife on with life admist all the discrimination in life.

To be fair, MCA has done some good in certain areas in life for Malaysian chinese i.e. Life long learning centre, Unitar, Tar College, Michael Chong etc but the rest of it is just lip service or the so called "silent back door service", besides enriching themselves at the expense of the rakyat.

If they are vocal enough and in the spirit of Barisan Nasional and national building to a better and equal footing of the Bangsa Malaysia, we would not have:

1. The Keris Incident
2. The squatters problem
3. Religion conversion issues
4. Higher Education Opportunities based of meritocracy
5. Pig Issues
6. Land matters
7. Government tenders issues
8. Contentious education policies and issues
9. Place of worship issues
10.Politics of Fear - May 13th
11. JPJ - black box
12. PK - FTZA
13. Temple issues

and much much more which would take years for me just to list out, of which I am ashame at times to be called a local malaysian born chinese and to be associated with MCA.

The MCA has not done "squarte" in the sense that most chinese feels like 2nd class immigrants in a country which most of us second generation chinese were born and everytime UMNO shouts, the MCA goes running with their tails behind them i.e. a metaphor akine to an obedient dog. That the true spirit of cooperation I might add.

Besides rumors of squandering in mega ways, big ways, medium ways and small ways inclusive of the public exhibition of their wealth, the so called YB's, their generals and foot soldiers have created a bad impression to the general chinese community, " all for one and sundry".

Do you honestly think that by holding, "yam seng sessions", "yam char session", 'karaoke session", 'open house session", "dragon dance session", " opening ceremonies", " launchings" etc, these prevalent problems would all go away quietly and besides the internal conflicts of the party akined to, "modern kongsi gelap" society in the making.

Do they seriously think that all of us are blind and deaf and oblivious to our surrounding and all their pledges will be easily forgotten by the general public.

The truth of the matter is, "greed corrupts and absolute greed will lead to destruction of a race and nation", and may god bless them and keep them safe, so the saying goes.

Reinvention, re-engineering, revamp, rebuild etc are just words uttered in times of desperation and am I expected to believe in them, that all those maneuvering would bring prosperity again to those who have yet to benefit after 50 years of independence.

Its a hard task, not impossible but definately uphill and will there be enough so called responsible leaders and selfless politicians to shoulder the burden.

I am sceptical but hopeful and always believed that everyone deserves a chance for all the right reasons or the wrong ones as hope is the only tangible thing left for a better tomorrow.