{"id":111905,"date":"2021-04-13T00:10:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T00:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=111905"},"modified":"2021-04-13T00:10:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T00:10:30","slug":"boris-johnson-defends-prince-philips-racist-remarks-world-did-not-hold-it-against-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/boris-johnson-defends-prince-philips-racist-remarks-world-did-not-hold-it-against-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson Defends Prince Philip&#8217;s Racist Remarks: &#8216;World Did Not Hold It Against Him&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>In a tribute to Prince Philip, United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson decided to bring up some of the late Duke of Edinburgh\u2019s racist remarks and then falsely claimed that \u201cthe world did not hold it against him.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt is true that [Philip] occasionally drove a coach and horses through the finer points of diplomatic protocol,\u201d Johnson said during\u00a0<\/span><span>a speech to Parliament<\/span><span> on Monday. He added that the Duke of Edinburgh had \u201ccoined a new word, dontopedalogy: the experience of putting your foot in your mouth.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The prime minister then unnecessarily revisited some examples: \u201cHe told a British student in Papua New Guinea that he was lucky not to be eaten, and the people of the Cayman Islands that they were descended from pirates,\u201d he said, citing <\/span><span>incidents from 1998 and 1994<\/span>,<span> respectively.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Papua New Guinea<\/span><span> is a former colony of Australia and part of the <\/span><span>British Commonwealth<\/span><span>, and the\u00a0<\/span><span>Cayman Islands<\/span><span>\u00a0are a British territory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe world did not hold it against him,\u201d Johnson claimed, <\/span><span>falsely<\/span><span>. \u201cOn the contrary, they overwhelmingly understood he was trying to break the ice \u2026 to get people laughing and to forget their nerves.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As U.K. reporter Nadine White pointed out on Twitter, <\/span><span>many people of color have been \u201cdeeply upset\u201d<\/span><span> and offended by Prince Philip\u2019s racism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Philip, the husband of <\/span><span>Queen Elizabeth II<\/span><span>, died at age 99 on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In his over 22,000 public engagements in his decades representing the monarchy, Philip made <\/span><span>many racist<\/span><span> and otherwise <\/span><span>offensive remarks<\/span><span>. In 1986, he told British students in China that \u201cif you stay here much longer, you\u2019ll all be slitty-eyed.\u201d In 1999, he said that an old fuse box in a factory \u201clooks as if it was put in by an Indian.\u201d <\/span><span>That same year, Philip asked <\/span><span>British politician Lord Taylor of Warwick<\/span><span>, who is Black, \u201cWhat exotic part of the world do you come from?\u201d Taylor replied: \u201cBirmingham.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2002, Philip asked Australian Aboriginal leader William Brin if members of his community were \u201cstill throwing spears.\u201d The same year, he asked young people at the Bangladesh Youth Club in London, \u201c<\/span><span>Who\u2019s on drugs<\/span><span> here?\u201d In 2003, Philip told the then-president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, who was wearing traditional garb: \u201cYou look like you\u2019re ready for bed.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>RELATED&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/boris-johnson-prince-philip-racism_n_6074b1b1e4b043d6d4a1ecd4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a tribute to Prince Philip, United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson decided to bring up some of the late Duke of Edinburgh\u2019s racist remarks [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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