ADUN SPEAKS | To date, corporate figure and consultant Chandran Nair has failed to address my earlier criticisms of his argument that racism must be confronted at the everyday level.

Being silent is not an option for Malaysians anymore.

I pointed out that racism is a problem in the country especially its institutional variant.

While Malaysians of all races get along quite well without the open display of animosity, it is the institutionalisation of special rights that manifested in the adoption of racist policies and measures.

Confronting racism is important, but there is a need to tackle the roots of the problem as embedded in complex formations.

The problem with Chandran’s (above) descriptive piece is that it is phenomenological.

In other words, he treats the matter of racism as...