I refer to the Malaysiakini report PKNS - 'Get the best person for the job' .

Dear Ms Low Siew Moi,

Firstly, let me congratulate you for what seems to have been a distinguished service. You have given 35 years of your life to PKNS, an organisation which on the face of it, was established to promote the welfare of the people of the state of Selangor.

Thirty-five years is a very long time. I guess you started your career with this agency and never worked anywhere else. Such loyalty is a rare trait these days.

I would not be the least surprised if you have been approached, numerous times, by commercial enterprises unrelated to government, where your services would be better recognised and therefore better rewarded.

You seemed happy to continue serving in PKNS and in so doing, you have no doubt accumulated vast reserves of intimate knowledge and experience in so far as the organisation and business of PKNS are concerned.

Malaysia has in many ways, gone backwards. From Abraham Lincoln to Mohandas Ghandi, from Martin Luther King Junior to Nelson Mandela, and from N K Narayanan to Barrack Obama, race has increasingly become irrelevant to office.

Roles and positions are assumed by qualified, not ‘kulitfied’ persons. Malaysia stands alone in this fight to insist that race is still relevant when it comes to doing a job. And it will continue to stand alone as the world moves forward.

Ms Low, I urge you to make a stand. I urge you to send a message, simply by taking up this job. For by taking up this role, you start to chip away at this Malaysian idiosyncrasy. You start to show how untenable the Malaysian crusade is.

You continue to pave the way so that the children of all Malaysians can join the rest of the world on the progressive path of equality. You must have been very good in your job. If you choose to heed the Selangor menteri besar’s call and helm this organisation, you can turn it around.

You can show that Malays and non-Malays can plough together and reap together. You can show the nation that all Malaysians can forget about race and start to focus on building and delivering.

You can be part of a new movement to demonstrate Malaysia is at last ready to pick up the cudgel and chip away at the institutionalised race-based inequality and discrimination.

Malaysia was blessed with a tradition of good education, language, a sound legal system and a hard working population. This legacy has been destroyed by racist policies.

The menteri besar of Selangor has demonstrated that an alternative government is now willing to challenge this so that the country may progress and not be hindered by the legacy of racist policies.

You are for now, at the centre of this new will to change. What an opportunity for you personally and for Malaysia as a whole. Unless you seriously need a rest, I urge you to take up this role. The nation will be grateful if you do.