Racial politics. Chris Anthony wrote: "...After 50 years of living and working together side-by-side, the people have voted to do away with racial politics but unfortunately the politicians are far from showing signs of heeding their calls for multiracialism...." Don’t widen the racial divide - Opinion | The Star Online Philip Bowring of International Herald Tribune wrote that the political organization of Malaysia has long been largely on racial lines, Islam has at times become a device for use in racial politics, a yardstick for measuring the commitment of competing parties to Malay racial advancement. In 2019, the Malay Mail reported how the 2019 Tanjung Piai by-election would be an opportunity to move away from racial politics, by respecting the racial pluralism of Mohamed Farid Md Rafik, after his unexpected death. The rich In the year 2006, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on his release from 6 years of prison said in a number of interviews that the NEP should be abolished and that all races should be given equal opportunities and also that the NEP was bad because only the cronies of UMNO party became rich from it. Khairy Jamaluddin from UMNO party hit back at Anwar Ibrahim. Khairy said: "What cheek he has to speak" and also said that Anwar Ibrahim was the greatest UMNO party member of all and a very rich one too. Khairy, who is also the son-in-law of the nation's 5th prime minister is not without controversy. In 2016, Khairy was slammed over his responsibility as he embroiled in the controversy surrounding the RM100 million corruption scandal plaguing the Youth and Sports Ministry he led when a senior official who had allegedly to have covertly siphoned off the ministry’s funds and lived a lavish lifestyle over the past six years was arrested by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) - Khairy Jamaluddin Controversies and issues In popular culture The route to the Oscars for 2018 film Green Book was described by TIME magazine as "riddled with missteps and controversies over its authenticity and racial politics." Author Judy Nunn's Khaki Town, reviewed by Kerryn Goldsworthy in The Sydney Morning Herald, was described in 2019 as a "complex tale of racial politics and racist behaviour, as practised on both sides of the Pacific". The Guardian reviewed 2019's Zombie horror-genre film Atlantics, reporting how it had engaged with racial politics. In 2020, the Super Bowl LIV halftime show, which featured