COMMENT | Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is right when he says that Malaysia is not a multi-racial country. Forget about his assertions about the Federal Constitution. This is not about the Constitution, but rather the ketuanan ideology.

It would be pointless to point out the fact that the old maverick has numerous times contradicted himself or how he acknowledged that his political survival was dependent numerous times on non-Malay support.

All that is irrelevant especially since the very people who supported him used him to gain access to power all in the service of a ‘New Malaysia’, which itself was a crock of manure.

No, Mahathir is right because no matter how much we talk about the history of this country how the non-Malays helped build this country, how the non-Malays helped sustain the economy of this country, how the non-Malays sustained the entitlements programmes that the majority enjoys, the reality is that...