‘WATERMELON SMILES AND PICCANINNIES”: What Britain’s new PM Boris Johnson has said previously about people in Africa in particular

‘WATERMELON SMILES AND PICCANINNIES”: What Britain’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said previously about people in Africa in particular, has shocked many with language considered to be racist and offensive.
Johnson, who was a member of the British Parliament at the time he made some of these comments in 2002, apologized while on the campaign trail for the London mayoral elections in 2008..Below are some of Johnson’s comments about Africa.’The big white chief’
Johnson made the remarks in an outlandish 2002 Daily Telegraph article, where few people were spared.’Not in charge anymore’
In a Spectator 2002 column titled, ‘Africa is a mess, but we can’t blame colonialism,’ he wrote: “It is just not convincing, 40 years on, to blame Africa’s problems on the ‘lines on the map’, the arbitrary boundary-making of the men in sola topis.”‘Aids-ridden choristers’
Writing in the same 2002 Spectator article, he also described meeting some young children with AIDS who performed a welcome song for Johnson and his group. He has come under fire for his insensitive description of the children.’Flag waving piccaninnies’
Writing in his column in the Daily Telegraph on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s visits around the world, he used the term “piccaninnies,” which is a racist term used to describe black children.’Ancestral dislike’
Johnson wrote a column in the British Sun newspaper in 2016 questioning why former President Obama removed a bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office and attributed it to his “ancestral dislike.” The Obama administration was forced to write a blog post to address several rumors circulating about the bust’s removal
On 7 Aug 2018 – In an article in the Telegraph this week, Boris Johnson described women who wear the Burka as looking like “letter boxes” and “bank robbers” …CNN Africa