Irked by President Obama's opposition to this view that Britain should quite the European Union, the current mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has borrowed a leaf off Donald Trump's book and is calling Obama names instead of arguing his case on its merits. What he said of president Obama is clearly pulled out of the racist pot brewed in America. His suggestion that President Obama may be opposing Brexit because he is "part-Kenyan" is an argument that the Republicans used to discredit Obama even when he was running for President. Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House and one of the 2012 presidential candidates, is among the first to float the idea that Obama's Kenyan background may lead him to have an aversion to American imperialism. That was however a racist code for saying that Obama should not be taken seriously because he is not one of us. Today, Boris Johnson pulled a trick out of that hat. The fact that Obama has an Irish background carries no consequence for Boris Johnson; the thing to fear is his Kenyan background. Racism has a way of making people not to think straight. Such is the case of Mr. Boris John of London.
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