Indians have a very stern characteristic going about them. They are in short, warriors who like to fight for a cause, small or big it may be, in most times. But at the end of the day, you can't help but to think they are the warriors of wastage.
The moment I read in news that a certain 22-year-old car thief suspect passed away while in police custody few weeks ago, I knew right away that something is wrong in his death, and it can't possibly be classified as 'sudden death'. The police's official statement was absolutely a case of terrible public relations. Their statement read that the man had asked for a glass of water during interrogation and just a while after drinking thw water, he collapsed and stopped breathing. Just like that.
The cops certainly made up the most ridiculous excuse ever exists for accidentally killing a suspect (not a convict). To put the facts straight, it is, of course, a case of law being breached, and human rights being breached. The cops should be probed, investigated, and the truth should be revealed.
But the manner in which the many Indians conducted themselves in the aftermath of the man's death is a sight of despair. Despair not because we are are race to pitied for because one of our men could be killed during police interrogation, but despair because we are absolutely clueless when it comes to deciding what cause it is that we are worth standing for. Admittedly, now HINDRAF is once again using its political motivations and the death of this man has been used as a vehicle and unbelievably, there are plenty out there who would think they are really fighting for something when they carry out banners indicating the Kuhan was a great man and doesn't deserve to die the way he did.
Filing a human rights case and really pushing the matter forward on a legal context is something I would definitely condone on them doing, it should be done. But to stand up and rally behind a suspected car thief by saying he is a great man and once again using race as a vehicle to create further diversity is utter madness. It shows that apparently six of his 'mourners' have also been arrested for being in the wrong side of law. It doesn't paint a good picture among other Malaysians when these people seem to have conveniently forgotten the virtue of a man being on the wrong side of law and instead supporting everything that he was.
These political motivations should stop, and apparently, HINDRAF's supposed cause at the first place is a mis-placed notion. To try and get compensation money for what our ancestors have experienced is ridiculous, its like cashing in on their misery. And I would condone nothing else but to stop whining and actually proving our worth in this society. It's about time we make our own luck rather than keep on complaining that we have been marginalized. We can either choose to keep on complaining for the rest of eternity, even if we do get the money, there won't be much difference in terms of how we suceeed on a complete social context, or we could really start putting in some effort and make our own luck. Its about time we do just that- make our own luck.
Indians have the tendency to look around and blame their neigbours or people near them for their failure, whether its real or not, if for once they would just accept that they will have to personally improve a great deal to succeed, they will make their own luck anyday. Discrimination exists everywhere in the world, its not like its only happening here and against us. Some people outside of Malaysia have suffered worse of discrimination yet they have come through to prevail by willpower alone. Every weakness in an advantage in disguise, its about time Malaysian Indians understand these facts.
So I hope they stop halting their own progress for standing up and wasting energy to stand up for extremely marginal causes such as these in life. If all the energy and effort taken in building HINDRAF and a following and ideology around it, and the effort of making a propaganda of the death of the suspected car thief have actually been saved and directed by each involved Indians towards imporving their own life and success measures with hardwork, the Malaysian Indian society might as well taken a huge leap forward in term of their social class status in an entirety. When they wanted to, they can be a Tony Fernandes or Anandha Krishnan or even a Vijay Mittal for that matter, but it seems even they don't have the belief that they themselves alone have what it takes to go the ultimate distance.
And we have to keep hoping that they will one day realize its only by personal success that they can find the will and power to change things.
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