Is the insult by Sungai Rapat (Perak) state assemblyperson Hamidah Osman reflective of BN’s treatment of MIC and Indians in general? One cannot forget Lim Keng Yaik’s famous words as well – something to do with rubber trees (wonder why no one protested him getting Tun). Obviously in a multiracial country, there’s always friendly banter between friends of different races, calling each other names. But that is in an informal, friendly environment. But in a formal setting, the assemblyperson should have known better. Now, Hamidah has become a liability for BN. Apology and wasting money going around her constituency will be wastage only. She might even be greeted with slippers. Best if she resign and save MIC from trying to do a salvage job. The story is below:<\/p>\n
Hamidah insulted the Assembly Speaker Sivakumar and his race when she asked him whether he ‘agreed to
\ndisagree’ with a well-known fable of whether a snake or a man from a
\ncertain racial community should be killed first.<\/b><\/p>\n
Her question caused a commotion by the ruling coalition asking her to retract her question, but Hamidah insisted that she was
\nmerely asking if Sivakumar “agreed to disagree” with it and pleaded innocence.<\/p>\n