Is It Offensive To Be Kenyan?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36112694
Dianne Abbot seems to think so.

[jno]

this from Boris Kemal the Turk? Bet he's a Muslim.

[ToraToraTora]

Like Barrack Hussain Obama jno?

[Gromit]

Boris' comment is strange.

A United States citizen has far more reasons to be anti the British Empire than a Kenyan. Following Boris' flawed logic, Mr Johnson should be anti Britishbecause he has American citizenship.

Does the fact that Boris was born in the United States have any bearing on his views on Brexit? He is either wrong or an hypocrit.

[anneasquith]

Oh a wee bit of foot and mouth there Boris .

[youngmafbog]

Boris is right, the left dont like it because he is so the resort to the usual.

[Jomlett]

Conservative MP Nicholas Soames, who is the grandson of the late Sir Winston Churchill, was not impressed by the comment piece.

“Appalling article by Boris Johnson in the Sun, totally wrong on almost everything,” he said.

[anotheoldgit]

"Dog whistle racism"?

I had never heard of this expression before so I took the trouble to look it up and came across this definition.

/// Racism that exists, though some people are unable to sense it. ///

So it seems one has to have ultra sensitive feelings to be able to detect it?

[anotheoldgit]

Was Boris wrong in his statement that Obama was part Kenyan, or just wrong for stating it?

[viv41]

Am I wrong in saying that it didn't bother me ??

[Gromit]

Obama was born in the US but had dual US and British citizenship. Exactly the same as Boris Johnson.

Ît is stupid to suggest that the dual citizenship conflicts Obama.
Johnson had exactly the same dual citizenship, but apparently he suffers no similar conflict.

We can probably file this in the huge box with Boris' Gaffes written on the side.

[Orderlimit]

This Dog Whistle Racism sounds like a serious issue :)

DWR, is political campaigning or policy-making that uses coded words and themes to appeal to conscious or subconscious racist concepts and frames.
It’s pure political theatre to push buttons to win elections and policies.
These messages are sent in secret, affecting us even when we are unaware of them.

[anotheoldgit]

/// Obama was born in the US but had dual US and British citizenship. Exactly the same as Boris Johnson. ///

Technically yes, but in fact Barrack Obama was born to a Kenyan national and a white American mother, in Honolulu, Hawaii, and Boris Johnson was born to two British nationals while they were living in New York city.

[Svejk]

Jomlett ///Conservative MP Nicholas Soames, who is the grandson of the late Sir Winston Churchill, was not impressed by the comment piece.///

You can bet your last Euro that that useless porker will have his snout deeply embedded in the EU trough.

[andy-hughes]

TTT - Ms. Abbot said - "Boris dismissing President Obama as 'half-Kenyan' reflects the worst Tea Party rhetoric,"

How from that, do you deduce that Dianne Abbott thinks it is 'offensive to be Kenyan'?

[Baldric]

gromit @ 14:56

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31475945

[jim360]

It's amazing how hypocritical people can be. They want to leave the EU because they think it's preferable to run themselves on principle, apparently, but some of such people are still OK with the idea of us running Africa, rather than Africans having their own freedom to rule, however it has turned out.

The parallels aren't exact, of course; they are worse. We chose to join the EU (or the EEC as it then was). The Africans didn't have much choice, historically, when we conquered them by military force.

[Svejk]

^Oops. And Jim just put the ball in his own net. (despite the nifty backtrack)

[jim360]

I don't see how I put the ball into my own net, but never mind. People can read whatever they like if they try hard enough.