Today, the MCA-owned Star report entitled “Penang’s first CM will not be in history books” made the startling announcement:
“Kuala Lumpur. It seems Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee will not be joining the ranks of other local top leaders in the Year 6 history textbooks used by Chinese vernacular schools after all.
“Education Minister, Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid said the history books were already printed and would soon be sent to schools.
“’There will be no more amendments made to the history books,’ he was quoted in a report by Sin Chew Daily.
“Mahdzir pointed out that corrections were made to Malacca which was mistakenly labelled onto the state of Terengganu.”
Mahdzir’s explanation is neither satisfactory nor acceptable. If the ghastly mistake in the SJKR Year Six history textbook, which shifted the Malacca state to the north of the country near Kelantan, could be corrected, why could’nt the omission of Wong Pow Nee in the formation of Malaysia, as one of the members of the Cobbold Commission which recommended positively on the establishment of Malaysia in 1963, be rectified? Continue reading “MCA is history when it cannot even ensure that the national contributions and role of MCA founders are given proper respect and recognition in the school history text books”