Datuk Professor Dr Shamsul Amri - RACE TENSIONS

From NST 28/09/2008

RACE RELATION ACT :

“You can't just have a law about something you don't know about just because someone from Bukit Bendera said something bad. “

STATE OF RACE RELATION :

“Race relations is at a state of stable tension.
There will be times this tension will reach its height and sort of shake us up but it won't uproot everything.”

CAUSE OF STABLE TENSION :

“When we have five different school systems, what do you expect?”

“I'm saying that we live with contradictions in this country. We have different schools, different mediums of instruction. Already in writing, we have differences that invite differences of opinions about many things. For me, that is inevitable. That is the system that, like it or not, we have come to accept in this country.”