Black is the VENOM

A learned Malaysian Chinese gentleman was recently arrested and released for introducing the 1BLACKMalaysia. Black which symbolically implies mourning, sooty, sinister, sleek and deadly is the ‘venom’. Of course there’s no harm in wearing black clothing but wearing black towards a cause, significantly as a sign of protest will create harm. It has created harm. No doubt about that. This is a passive response or shall I say a passive resistance, his game plan was clearly, as I see it, to uphold democracy and the freedom of speech. The rationale to sit passively, vigil like, is Gandhian in nature, the non aggressive stance has but one clear objective and that is, to protest. That’s the motive, to protest. The norm with individuals is, they will only protest out of frustration. Protests in whatever form can turn ugly because people, being human beings can become aggressive when faced with failure to attain their goals.