{"id":36167,"date":"2014-04-01T21:59:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T21:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36167"},"modified":"2015-09-24T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T13:33:20","slug":"bung-mokhtar-mixed-race-malaysians-will-benefit-from-racial-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36167","title":{"rendered":"Bung Mokhtar: Mixed-race Malaysians will benefit from racial voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaymailonline.com\/malaysia\/article\/bung-mokhtar-mixed-race-malaysians-will-benefit-from-racial-voting\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Bung Mokhtar: Mixed-race Malaysians will benefit from racial voting<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaymailonline.com\" target=\"_blank\">Malay Mail Online<\/a><br \/>\nPetaling Jaya, Malaysia<br \/>\n2014-04-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/about.me\/zurairi\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Zurairi AR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UALA LUMPUR, Apr 1 \u2014 Malaysians with mixed-race parentage will benefit the most from voting along racial lines <strong>as they will have more than one representative<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kinabatangan\" target=\"_blank\">Kinabatangan<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_Parliament\" target=\"_blank\">MP<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bung_Mokhtar_Radin\" target=\"_blank\">Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin <\/a>said today.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barisan_Nasional\" target=\"_blank\">Barisan Nasional<\/a> (BN) MP also claimed that the system suggested by Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shahidan_Kassim\" target=\"_blank\">Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim<\/a> yesterday will ensure justice for every ethnic group in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those who may have two or three ancestries, they can choose which one they prefer\u2026 They can be in both worlds,\u201d Bung said in Parliament here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me that is really good. At least, for me who has both Sungai and Malay ancestries, I can then get two or three representatives. Now, I can only get one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sungai is the name of one of the many official tribes in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sabah\" target=\"_blank\">Sabah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bung also refuted claims that Shahidan\u2019s remarks is alike the now-abolished apartheid regime in South Africa, in which people voted for representatives from their own ethnic communities&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaymailonline.com\/malaysia\/article\/bung-mokhtar-mixed-race-malaysians-will-benefit-from-racial-voting\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bung Mokhtar: Mixed-race Malaysians will benefit from racial voting Malay Mail Online Petaling Jaya, Malaysia 2014-04-01 Zurairi AR UALA LUMPUR, Apr 1 \u2014 Malaysians with mixed-race parentage will benefit the most from voting along racial lines as they will have more than one representative, Kinabatangan MP Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin said today. The Barisan Nasional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,4405,26],"tags":[17163,17164,17027,3760,17162],"class_list":["post-36167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-oceania","category-politics","tag-bung-mokhtar","tag-datuk-bung-mokhtar-radin","tag-malay-mail-online","tag-malaysia","tag-zurairi-ar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42879,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36167\/revisions\/42879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}