COMMENT | M'sia can be paradise for all races if we reset moral compass

 COMMENT | Unity lost can now be unity found under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

"Unity is Strength", the national motto, once held the nation together. Lost in time, national togetherness is integral to Anwar's renaissance. What was it like then to live with unity?

Tunku Abdul Rahman during a speech at his alma mater sometime in the 1960s exhorted us to "study hard, achieve success, and be the future leaders for the country".

The Tunku was the personification of multiracialism and multiculturalism. He walked the talk on accepting one another regardless of one's race, rank and religion.

A reason for disunity is the divisive political concept of security in race. This mistaken idea - that only those of your own race can help you undergird and perpetuate the politics of race - inevitably spawns racial prejudice, animosity, and disunity.

It is rather a fallacy that race takes care of its own as all race-based political parties have obviously failed to help their race across the board, and unite among themselves, let alone the nation. Cronyism and corruption became rife under the dark cover of race and religion. Only the politically...