[EvertonDiehard]

Way back in 2002, then PM Mahathir said the Malays remained weak and backward after 30 years of preferential treatment and told them to learn from the hardworking and intelligent Chinese; he praised the very people he so hated and was jealous as well as afraid of. Mahathir, who was in his 21st year in office, warned that Malays were "far from being safe" and would not survive if privileges under the New Economic Policy were withdrawn. "The Malays are still weak, the poorest people and are backward," Mahathir said. He knew that without the NEP, the Malays would fill up all the blue collar jobs in the country while the Chinese would be the bosses.