UNIT 731 was a Japanese group of scientists that performed animalistic experiments on humans by dissecting human bodies without anesthesia.
JUST last year, Bryan Rigg in his book Japan's Holocaust noted Imperial Japanese Forces killed 30 million people between 1927 to 1945.
FOURTEEN million of them or nearly one in two murdered were ethnic Chinese. The Japanese would decades latter go to eradicate polio in China.
THE Japanese for all the injustices done, get this , did not compensate the Chinese but instead LOANED, READ : China ¥3.66 trillion from 1980 to 2022, with the China's final repayment of the loan coming in 2047.
THE moral of the story is history does not define your destiny. You define your destiny by the steps you take and how you embrace change to grow.
I chooss to highlight nationhoods rise from being spit at and disgraced rather than any individuals success, because it is much easier for an individual to rise than a nation state to do. And it also goes to show what forward thinking can do for a country.
SO does it really matter , if Malays could fly back in the day, build ships and swords, when the same history is teaching us other lessons, that too many of us today are doing the same mistakes as Black America. READ : In 1870, the wealth gap between Black and White Americans was a staggering 23 to 1. That's equivalent to just $4 of wealth for Black Americans for every $100 for White Americans.
FAST forward 150 years and the wealth gap narrowed to about 6 to 1, but that's not the whole story because from 1980 up to the past four decades Black wealth have stagnated and with the wealth gap between them and Caucasians increasing by 0.1 per cent.
THE stagnation coincides with the rise in single mum homes amongst blacks since 1980.
IN 1970, approximately 29.5 per cenf of Black children lived with their mothers in single-parent households.
BY 2023, READ : 47% of Black mothers were single mothers, as opposed to Asians 8 per cent mother homes in America.
WHY bring Asians to the conversation...well because Asians are a success story in the USA, and Malaysia is in this conversation because there is no use in being able to fly centuries ago if your roots today are not grounded.
GROUNDED to the soil we stand on to form deep lasting roots, by having the centuries old family structure led by the father and mother.
THERE is no shame if your bloodline, there is none who could fly without an aeroplane or helicopter, but there should be shame if are responsible for breaking family structures long before R Kelly admitted in a song ; I believe I can fly.
THE family structure and the role played by the father and not how or what your neighbour did or did not do or being able to build ships and fly, will always define history.
IN Malaysia today there are more than a million single mothers. This a live ticking time bomb, which we can see in some of today's teenagers.
THEY no longer talk like us or even our grand parents nor do they behave like us or our grandparents. This is not the usual borders between generations, it's something much bigger ; The missing father, and the single mother who works, which is tsunami waiting on the door steps off mostly Malay, Malaysians.
IN the state of Perak 2021, for example, 63.5% of the registered single mothers were Malay, compared to 11.6% Chinese and 18.9% Indian.
INSTEAD of investing money to find out if Parameswara was an Indian, Malay or Albino, and then to rewrite history for failed egos, people and governments should be investing time, money and discussions of keeping the nucleas that can shape generations of history , : the one mother one father family in fighting shape.
BECAUSE at the end of the day most of us will not make it into the history books, our legacy is in the family structure which our parents gave us.
YES we all can fly without wings, but the passage to learning that skill set, has only two roads by either investing money to rewrite the past or investing money now on the family structure for many many generations of tomorrow.
LIKE all versions of the same story , there can only be one version which is true, like wise so is the two roads which will allow you to fly,; only one will stand tall even against time.
