The tragedy of the non-Malay dilemma

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“Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.”- James BaldwinIn a recent interview with Malaysiakini, Chandran Nair said that in order to dismantle institutional racism, the non-Malays “... do not need to believe that the only way to dismantle it is through the political system as that is a sham and the events of the last two years have shown us that racism is what runs through the corridors of our entire political system.”What Chandran advocates are good old fashioned liberal civil action and disobedience as a kind of grassroots alternative to mainstream politics in this country. While I think that people advocating for change on personal and localised levels are always constructive, the reality is that institutional change can only come about through the political process. I think m…