May 13 - What is that?

Above is a response from a college kid, when asked by a Malaysia's insider reporter, 40 years after the awful incident. I, as one of the million 80's babies will not be too familiar with what happened, but words coming from our parents and generation before them sort of give us the chill to the bone, hoping that it will not happen again. (see it here)

Our history books from Sasbadi and Preston didn't really write about the incident, and i wonder why. Aren't history books suppose to tell us what REALLY happended, so that we can all together avoid such tragedy from happening again?

Well, apparently, maybe not so. Maybe because it's not in our books, our youths nowadays don't have that fear, or hatred in them. They live together as one, one nation. There's no such thing as racial tension for them. They would exchange their mother tounge with one another. Whenever they mention the word 'babi', they REALLY ARE refering to that cute animal.

Received a call from my grandmother last night, telling me to stay away from KL today, saying it's May13, and there will be riot or some sort. You know how old ppl can be so naggy, they will not let you off the phone until you said ok. You can't really blame. Poeple of our generation will never understand the hardship they've gone thru when the real May 13 happended.

Going back to my granny's warning, well, as of now, after hours of monitoring the news online, all i read about is the Perak political crisis.. BORING... So you see, the nation don't really care about this racial tension anymore. especially when you see the chinese community are also supporting PAS. Not because of their practise and believe, but as a stand to protest the governing party to stop their nonsense and do their work.

So tell me, what is May13 today? Racial tension or political tension?