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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by emkz: 9:51pm On Nov 28, 2019
They never learn.

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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by figure007(m): 9:52pm On Nov 28, 2019
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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by fasho01(m): 9:52pm On Nov 28, 2019
True words nonetheless
Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by figure007(m): 9:53pm On Nov 28, 2019
[quote author=figure007 post=84456023 most of these leaders are pure racist .... It runs in their blood

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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by BENARI: 9:53pm On Nov 28, 2019
What he said about Nigerians is indisputable fact.

I wonder why speaking the truth is considered racist in the West.

A beg make una leave the man jor!

Na so them wan kill Trump for calling Africa what it really is - "sh:t hole, and identifying one of its rulers as lifeless.

Carry go Johnson Jare!

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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by inference: 9:54pm On Nov 28, 2019
iceberg02:
Say no to racism
BENARI:
What he said about Nigerians is indisputable fact.

I wonder why speaking the truth is considered racist in the West.

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A beg make una leave the man jor!

Na so them wan kill Trump for calling Africa what it really is - "sh:t hole, and identifying one of its rulers as lifeless.

Carry go Johnson Jare!
fergie001:
Boris Johnson has been accused of pushing racial stereotypes over a newly-unearthed column written during his time as editor of the Spectator in which he said young people had “an almost Nigerian interest in money”.

The prime minister has been under pressure in recent months over a series of comments he made during his career as a columnist, writer and editor, including referring to black people as “piccaninnies” with “watermelon smiles” and arguing Islam has caused the Muslim world to be “literally centuries behind” the west.

In another column which has come to light, Johnson blamed single mothers for “producing a generation of ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate children”, saying that social housing was an enticement for them to become pregnant.

The new columns emerged after the chancellor, Sajid Javid, refused seven times to say whether he would use the terms “bank robber” or “letterbox” to describe Muslim women who wear a burka, as Johnson did last year.

The Conservative party leader wrote in a diary piece for the Independent on Sunday in October 1999 that Tony Blair had made people feel good about getting rich.

He added: “All the young people I know – ie those under 30 – are just as avaricious as we flinty Thatcherite yuppies of the 1980s in fact, they have an almost Nigerian interest in money and gadgets of all kinds.”

Weyman Bennett, the co-convenor of Stand Up to Racism, described Johnson’s words as “deeply racist and offensive”. He told the Guardian: “This can be added to the ‘piccaninnies’ and ‘watermelon smiles’, the abject refusal to properly apologise and change his behaviour around racism.

“Boris Johnson is unfit to be a prime minister that represents the entire United Kingdom. He had demonstrated this by lying and falsely representing black, Asian and different communities inside this country.

“This is deeply offensive and unforgivable and should not be ignored and he should be held to account.”

In the column on single mothers, published in the Spectator in 1995, Johnson wrote that “uppity and irresponsible women” had a “natural desire to have babies” and that ways must be found to ensure they married.

Arguing that social housing available to single mothers was “an enticement”, Johnson said “no government – and certainly no Labour government – will have the courage to make the cuts in the safety net of the viciousness required to provide anything like such a deterrent”.

Labour said the comments followed a pattern of sexist and misogynistic words and behaviour by Johnson. Shami Chakrabarti, the shadow attorney general, said: “These unearthed comments further reveal Boris Johnson’s contempt for women and families, as he hypocritically attacks what he appallingly describes as ‘illegitimate’ children.”

In the past 24 hours both major parties have been criticised for their handling of race issues. The Muslim Council of Britain accused the Conservative party of “denial, dismissal and deceit” over the issue of Islamophobia on Tuesday, saying the party had a “blind spot for this type of racism”. On Wednesday Johnson apologised for Islamophobia within the Conservative party.

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has also struggled to move on from an intervention by the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, who said the party had not done enough to tackle antisemitism.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/28/johnson-accused-of-racial-stereotyping-with-view-on-nigerians
Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by Danwakae(m): 9:55pm On Nov 28, 2019
chef22991578729:
He is right about this below. Islam is a curse

"Islam has caused the Muslim world to be “literally centuries behind” the west"- Boris


You are also a curse ...fool

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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by Nobody: 9:55pm On Nov 28, 2019
how does this long post nw help bring the dollar down or make certain people resign?
Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by Fancyforlife: 9:57pm On Nov 28, 2019
Parablesonmarble:
Boris Johnson is just a loud politician. He said he'd kill himself if he doesn't fix the Brexit deal by a given date only to start singing another melody when he realized failure was certain. He can say anything, I won't take him too seriously. He's just a politician after all. But wait ooo, an average Nigerian youth too kind of have a crazy, unquenchable love for money ooo. Truth be told, we like money.
I agree with you.

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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by papermill: 9:57pm On Nov 28, 2019
Which Kind racism? It is our calling.. we love money and we making money.Bleep it!!!!!

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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by Hadampson(m): 9:59pm On Nov 28, 2019
chef22991578729:
[s]He is right about this below. Islam is a curse

"Islam has caused the Muslim world to be “literally centuries behind” the west"- Boris[/s]
Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by AreaFada2: 10:03pm On Nov 28, 2019
Maybe it's his American girlfriend while married he used govt money to fund and gave govt contracts that does not like money.

Fact is Trump and Boris' racism appeal to their people, majority of whom have their prejudices bubbling underneath anyway. Their leaders showing it publicly pleases them and makes them believe it's mainstream belief albeit not being openly shown due to political correctness.

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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by Nobody: 10:04pm On Nov 28, 2019
Truer words have never been said
Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by Nobody: 10:05pm On Nov 28, 2019
i see nothing racist in that statement. if truth be told dont we nigerians worship money and love flaunting expensive gadgets??
Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by MainForeigner: 10:09pm On Nov 28, 2019
Look who's stereotyping
Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by jesmond3945: 10:10pm On Nov 28, 2019
anonymous1759:
....

Thrash waiting for haters of Nigeria to Hail him.
As far I'm concerned John Borris Ancestors our colonial masters are worst than our youths in this Generation those men can do anything to Enrich themselves. It's high time we start calling those people white '' Maggot '' nobody has monopoly to insult people.
my brother black man for uk na endangered specie. it is as if you are subhuman.

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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by daylae(m): 10:10pm On Nov 28, 2019
Donald Trump's distant cousin. . .badmouthed, egoistic, and of course garrulous.

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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by LGDON: 10:11pm On Nov 28, 2019
fergie001:
Boris Johnson has been accused of pushing racial stereotypes over a newly-unearthed column written during his time as editor of the Spectator in which he said young people had “an almost Nigerian interest in money”.

The prime minister has been under pressure in recent months over a series of comments he made during his career as a columnist, writer and editor, including referring to black people as “piccaninnies” with “watermelon smiles” and arguing Islam has caused the Muslim world to be “literally centuries behind” the west.

In another column which has come to light, Johnson blamed single mothers for “producing a generation of ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate children”, saying that social housing was an enticement for them to become pregnant.

The new columns emerged after the chancellor, Sajid Javid, refused seven times to say whether he would use the terms “bank robber” or “letterbox” to describe Muslim women who wear a burka, as Johnson did last year.

The Conservative party leader wrote in a diary piece for the Independent on Sunday in October 1999 that Tony Blair had made people feel good about getting rich.

He added: “All the young people I know – ie those under 30 – are just as avaricious as we flinty Thatcherite yuppies of the 1980s in fact, they have an almost Nigerian interest in money and gadgets of all kinds.”

Weyman Bennett, the co-convenor of Stand Up to Racism, described Johnson’s words as “deeply racist and offensive”. He told the Guardian: “This can be added to the ‘piccaninnies’ and ‘watermelon smiles’, the abject refusal to properly apologise and change his behaviour around racism.

“Boris Johnson is unfit to be a prime minister that represents the entire United Kingdom. He had demonstrated this by lying and falsely representing black, Asian and different communities inside this country.

“This is deeply offensive and unforgivable and should not be ignored and he should be held to account.”

In the column on single mothers, published in the Spectator in 1995, Johnson wrote that “uppity and irresponsible women” had a “natural desire to have babies” and that ways must be found to ensure they married.

Arguing that social housing available to single mothers was “an enticement”, Johnson said “no government – and certainly no Labour government – will have the courage to make the cuts in the safety net of the viciousness required to provide anything like such a deterrent”.

Labour said the comments followed a pattern of sexist and misogynistic words and behaviour by Johnson. Shami Chakrabarti, the shadow attorney general, said: “These unearthed comments further reveal Boris Johnson’s contempt for women and families, as he hypocritically attacks what he appallingly describes as ‘illegitimate’ children.”

In the past 24 hours both major parties have been criticised for their handling of race issues. The Muslim Council of Britain accused the Conservative party of “denial, dismissal and deceit” over the issue of Islamophobia on Tuesday, saying the party had a “blind spot for this type of racism”. On Wednesday Johnson apologised for Islamophobia within the Conservative party.

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has also struggled to move on from an intervention by the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, who said the party had not done enough to tackle antisemitism.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/28/johnson-accused-of-racial-stereotyping-with-view-on-nigerians

Everything he said is the truth, if you dont like it, you can kill yourself
Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by Kingrefreshed: 10:19pm On Nov 28, 2019
fergie001:
Boris Johnson has been accused of pushing racial stereotypes over a newly-unearthed column written during his time as editor of the Spectator in which he said young people had “an almost Nigerian interest in money”.

The prime minister has been under pressure in recent months over a series of comments he made during his career as a columnist, writer and editor, including referring to black people as “piccaninnies” with “watermelon smiles” and arguing Islam has caused the Muslim world to be “literally centuries behind” the west.

In another column which has come to light, Johnson blamed single mothers for “producing a generation of ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate children”, saying that social housing was an enticement for them to become pregnant.

The new columns emerged after the chancellor, Sajid Javid, refused seven times to say whether he would use the terms “bank robber” or “letterbox” to describe Muslim women who wear a burka, as Johnson did last year.

The Conservative party leader wrote in a diary piece for the Independent on Sunday in October 1999 that Tony Blair had made people feel good about getting rich.

He added: “All the young people I know – ie those under 30 – are just as avaricious as we flinty Thatcherite yuppies of the 1980s in fact, they have an almost Nigerian interest in money and gadgets of all kinds.”

Weyman Bennett, the co-convenor of Stand Up to Racism, described Johnson’s words as “deeply racist and offensive”. He told the Guardian: “This can be added to the ‘piccaninnies’ and ‘watermelon smiles’, the abject refusal to properly apologise and change his behaviour around racism.

“Boris Johnson is unfit to be a prime minister that represents the entire United Kingdom. He had demonstrated this by lying and falsely representing black, Asian and different communities inside this country.

“This is deeply offensive and unforgivable and should not be ignored and he should be held to account.”

In the column on single mothers, published in the Spectator in 1995, Johnson wrote that “uppity and irresponsible women” had a “natural desire to have babies” and that ways must be found to ensure they married.

Arguing that social housing available to single mothers was “an enticement”, Johnson said “no government – and certainly no Labour government – will have the courage to make the cuts in the safety net of the viciousness required to provide anything like such a deterrent”.

Labour said the comments followed a pattern of sexist and misogynistic words and behaviour by Johnson. Shami Chakrabarti, the shadow attorney general, said: “These unearthed comments further reveal Boris Johnson’s contempt for women and families, as he hypocritically attacks what he appallingly describes as ‘illegitimate’ children.”

In the past 24 hours both major parties have been criticised for their handling of race issues. The Muslim Council of Britain accused the Conservative party of “denial, dismissal and deceit” over the issue of Islamophobia on Tuesday, saying the party had a “blind spot for this type of racism”. On Wednesday Johnson apologised for Islamophobia within the Conservative party.

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has also struggled to move on from an intervention by the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, who said the party had not done enough to tackle antisemitism.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/28/johnson-accused-of-racial-stereotyping-with-view-on-nigerians

British Jagaban! Drug dealer and A cheat.

His just a piece of sperm walking around in human form

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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by Nobody: 10:21pm On Nov 28, 2019
Leaders of today are lousy. They lack finesse. It's like the whole human society itself is slowly degenerating in terms of morals, ethics and plain old common sense.

The worst of the worst continues to be thrown up for leadership everywhere. In US, UK, Nigeria, South Africa, etc

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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by ZooOga: 10:31pm On Nov 28, 2019
imagine a modern day bureaucratic colonial subject of the crown talking poo about 9ja ppl liking money.

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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by Rolex66: 10:31pm On Nov 28, 2019
I need his hair for my mopstick. It will clean spick and span.

Sooner or later, he'll be kicked out of No. 10 Clowning Street

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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by Incandescent(m): 10:31pm On Nov 28, 2019
Same thieves that raped our continent dry are calling us thieves.

Case of pot calling kettle black

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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by anonymous1759(m): 10:32pm On Nov 28, 2019
jesmond3945:
my brother black man for uk na endangered specie. it is as if you are subhuman.


I don't blame them. we Africans wash our dirty linens outside. Sometimes when I see what our youths post about Nigeria on line it's Heart Breaking. Go to Efcc page on Twitter all you see there is yahoo boys. They're disgracing their ancestors like all the bad people reside in Nigeria.

Go the FBI page on Twitter you Barely see pictures of criminal there it's not like they're not working but they protect their image.

Over 1000 Chinese youths were arrested in Malaysia few days ago have you heard about the News? When 87 Nigeria were arrested in the USA it was making headlines with the help of useless agency and youths who hate Nigeria.

Nigeria is not the best Country and neither the worst. We ain't patriotic at all. We think selling out the country will make us appear like angels but we're shooting ourselves on the leg.

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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by greencard: 10:36pm On Nov 28, 2019
We will at this point want to form "patrioticm" and talk politically correctness but what that guy said is his opinion..which on my opinion isn't far from the TRUTH
Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by EfonAlaaye2023(m): 10:48pm On Nov 28, 2019
these useless whites are quick to abuse and talk down on Africa and Africans but common comment UK ambassador made the other day Trump called for his replacement


these bunch of hypocrites is relevant because we have many inferiority complex people in Africa




asssshole people

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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by jaxxy(m): 11:00pm On Nov 28, 2019
What is racial stereotyping Abeg let’s here word. Aren’t we tribal stereotyping here
Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by efex01(m): 11:06pm On Nov 28, 2019
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Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by mrsage(m): 11:14pm On Nov 28, 2019
I disagree with Johnson

Makes it sound as if all Islamic Nations are backward.

How many Islamic nations are Centuries behind the west?

Let's check out figures.
Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by mrsage(m): 11:15pm On Nov 28, 2019
I disagree with Johnson

Makes it sound as if all Islamic Nations are backward.

How many Islamic nations are Centuries behind the west?

Let's check out figures...
Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by streetfabulous: 11:25pm On Nov 28, 2019
My oh my, these guys have a way with words. He used the word NIGERIAN to qualify a type of interest in money. I feel like laughing and frowning at the same time. grin angry
Re: Boris Johnson Accused Of Racial Stereotyping With View On Nigerians by CanadaOrBust: 11:30pm On Nov 28, 2019
mrsage:
I disagree with Johnson

Makes it sound as if all Islamic Nations are backward.

How many Islamic nations are Centuries behind the west?

Let's check out figures...

Seriously, all of them if u remove oil

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