Race? "Bangsa"?

Actually watching the Prime Minister on TV last night's speech give me a lot of thoughts. You see, his speech laced with statements totally out opposite of what BN has done to country. A few times he spoke of lifting up the race as summarize in this statement from Utusan Online:

"Sambil meminta rakyat menjaga perpaduan antara kaum, beliau menggesa seluruh usaha ditumpukan untuk menambah nilai diri, bangsa dan negara."
Translated:
While asking the citizen to unite, he asked the effort to be concentrated on increasing self, race and nation value.

I want to ask him, which race? It was best summarized by Jeff Ooi blog:

No bangsa
The national anthem reads like a poem:


Negaraku, tanah tumpahnya darahku,
Rakyat hidup, bersatu dan maju,
Rahmat bahagia, Tuhan kurniakan,
Raja kita, selamat bertakhta.
Rahmat bahagia, Tuhan kurniakan,
Raja kita, selamat bertakhta.

Azmi Sharom noticed the missing word. Bangsa.

And of course the unity thing. It was said that we should fight against people who want to destroy of nation's unity. But he forgot that the unity he talked about is destroyed by his subordinate by waving the Malay sword ("keris"). I wonder how we can fight that. Maybe he can teach us.

To have unity means to have equality and that's it. There's no other way around that.