Best political statement 2018 (3)

FMT - Put Tamil schools at par with national schools, Santiago tells Putrajaya (succinct extract):

from FMT:

Santiago says some Indians shun national schools because they fear their children would be marginalised. 

This one, by DAP's Charles Santiago, is again in a different category from the previous two. It's by far more serious but I deem as very worthy of recording in my blog.

Charles Santiago in his appeal to the federal authorities to increase its funding for Tamil vernacular schools to help the very poor and marginalised Indian Malaysians, has beautifully encapsulated why non-Malay Malaysians want to retain their culture, tradition and mother tongue. He said most brilliantly:

“This love for one’s culture and tradition is something we tend to see more among the poor across all races. Most of the time, it’s all they have.”

Amin, Amen, Om Shanti Shanti Shanti, Appaṭiyē ākuka, Omitofu.

Related:

(1) BEST political statement 2018.

(2) BEST political statement 2018 (2).

P/S I hope my matey HT Low won't chide me again for my post title, knowing that BEST political statement 2018 (2) renders either the current or previous posts with same title incorrect. That's because BEST is a superlative and can only be one (unique).

Yes, my deliberate title error a la a previous tautological error, wakakaka, is for me to keep track of "best political statements" or clever puns, etc, in the blog. Excuse my grammatical blasphemies, wakakaka.