Keris-Brandishing Crutch-Leaning Ketuanan Melayu?

Dr Bakri Musa, a regular columnist at Malaysiakini and a surgeon in California by profession, wrote in his article ‘Ketuanan Melayu: False premise and promise’ that:

The special privileges of the NEP (New Economic Policy) should be used to enhance the competitiveness of bumiputeras, not to narcotise us with the delusion of Ketuanan Melayu. Before his elegant silence, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi spoke bravely of the 'The New Malay Dilemma', of weaning Malays of the special privilege crutches

Characteristically, he recoiled at the first hint of resistance, he could not handle the keris-brandishing Umno Youth leaders intent on having their regular special privileges fix.

We delude only ourselves if we think we can use the constitution, heritage, or some imagined social contract to make us Tuan. Malays have to disabuse ourselves of the false premise and promise of Ketuanan Melayu.

If all the rumours about his son-in-law have been true, then how could we expect AAB to ‘wean Malays off the special privileges crutches’?