Ayat ini mungkin akan mencetuskan kemarahan bagi sesetengah pihak yang mengaku anak Jati Pulau Pinang...Fakta sejarah tidak menipu, Tapi kita sanggup menipu diri sendiri demi fahaman politik?
“The Malayan Union plan highlighted not only the ambiguity of the political aspirations of the Straits Chinese but ultimately also the ambiguity of their identity. While they could only welcome the notion of equal citizenship and opportunities for all races in Malaya, they shrank from the prospect of being cut loose from the safe moorings of the Straits Settlements and thrown into the turbulent politics of the new Malaya.”
Intipatinya orang Pulau Pinang zaman British berkiblatkan barat dan tidak memiliki identiti Nusantara. Pasti mereka bukan Cina berjiwa komunis atau yang turun dari bukit.
Gerakan enggan menyertai Malaya
Segolongan penduduk Pulau Pinang menuntut ‘secession’, yakni perpisahan supaya boleh keluar daripada Persekutuan Tanah Melayu — “a movement designed to get Penang out of the Malayan Federation, in order that it might rejoin Singapore as a Straits Settlement”.
Pada Oktober 1949, mereka telah menghantar petisyen kepada Colonial Secretary di Pejabat Tanah Jajahan (Colonial Office) di London supaya kedudukan Pulau Pinang sebagai sebuah ‘colony of the Straits Settlements’ dipulih-balikkan.
Pada September 1951, mereka menerima jawapan daripada Pejabat Tanah Jajahan, yang di samping menolak petisyen tersebut, juga the Secretary of State for the Colonies tidak meluluskan permintaan agar sebuah Suruhanjaya Di-Raja diadakan untuk menentukan status Pulau Pinang.
“However, by early December 1948 an almost irresistible momentum for secession was building up: on 4 December 1948, the Penang Straits Chinese British Association voted for a policy of secession, and this was unanimously backed by an emergency general meeting of the Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce on 12 December 1948.” [...]
“For the Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the Chinese- and English-language newspapers of Malaya, the priority was not so much themaintenance of the imperial link per se, as the link with Chinese-dominated Singapore.“
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