Ketuanan Rakyat - Ketuanan Melayu

Whether it is "Ketuanan Rakyat" or "Ketuanan Melayu" both phrases are wrong!!!

If is more correct to use "Kuasa Rakyat" or "People Power".

Ketuanan Rakyat is coined by Pakatan Rakyat, Ketuanan Melayu is used by UMNO. The root word "tuan" implied that there must be a subordinate, "kuli", slave, etc.

So don't be fooled be the supreme leader of "Ketuanan Rakyat", it could actually means "Ketuanan Pakatan Rakyat"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The phrase "Ketuanan Melayu" was used from the mid-1980s, guess who was the most rising political star during that period......

Excerpt from Dr Azly Rahman: A Malay view of Ketuanan Melayu

....I first read heard the phrase Ketuanan Melayu in the mid-1980s from a book by one Malik Munip. I was reading his work, at the same time reading Lim Kit Siang’s ‘Malaysia in the dangerous 80s’, to get a sense of the argument. I was an undergraduate reading Literature, Education and International Politics.

I also heard that Malay students were discouraged from reading Kit Siang’s work and encouraged to read ‘Ketuanan Melayu’. I love banned books and books that others tell me not to read. There is a sense of intellectual challenge to be able to read banned books.....