In a strongly worded tweet against the move by a secondary school in Johor said to be setting such conditions, Reezal stressed that the action of the school was inappropriate and backward.

“Sports should be ‘colour-blind’ across cultural borders and act as an agent of unity. There is no such approach in our sports policy.

“We want to democratise sports, starting from schools,” he said in a tweet in reply to a posting by a Twitter user (@sharwinsubra05) who questioned the action of the secondary school.

The Twitter user also uploaded a picture of a letter which contained a list of clubs and associations as well as sports allegedly open to only one race for Form One students.

The list, among others, stated that the Chinese language club, table tennis and basketball were only open to Chinese students, while football, netball and sepak takraw were for Malays.

A check by Bernama found the action of the school was also criticised by netizens all over who questioned the rationale in separating co-curricular activities according to race.

User @gustiadipati9, in a posting, said “co-curricular activities should be evenly distributed. Why separate according to race?”

Another user, @Eexyz85, wants action to be taken against the school.

“The authorities should take action against the school,” the user said.