What was Enda Kenny's racist joke?

shelsfan · 01-12-2005 4:47pm #1

...about Prime Minister of Congo Lumumba who was assassinated in 1961?

BerigWielbark · 01-12-2005 4:52pm

A Moroccan barman 'with shiny teeth' had been asked why a cocktail was called a 'Lumumba' and replied it was named after 'some ****** who died dans la guerre'. according to The Guardian.

Something along those lines. And people ask why I would rather drink rat poison than vote FG...

jaggeh · 01-12-2005 5:37pm

umbongo umbongo they killed him in the congo

Blisterman · 01-12-2005 7:35pm

I don't get it.

netwhizkid · 01-12-2005 8:40pm

^^^Ditto

robz150 · 01-12-2005 8:42pm

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,792360,00.html

Still don't get the joke

karlh · 01-12-2005 9:10pm

i dont get it either but jageh's one is class

John R · 01-12-2005 9:11pm

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,792360,00.html

Kenny initially asked reporters at the function not to report his remarks and, to the astonishment of some commentators, a number of newspapers agreed.

Doesn't surprise me at all. The media in this country are as corrupt as the politicians.

I always thought Kenny was a pig ignorant little troll, I can now add stupid and un-funny to the list.

Mossy Monk · 01-12-2005 9:24pm

the first i have heard of this controversy

Enda Kenny is a ****ing moron

**** joke to boot

Amazotheamazing · 01-12-2005 9:29pm

Storm in a tea-cup, it isn't a particulary racist joke, it's about one black guy calling another guy a "******". I can see why it would be found offensive, but I don't think it makes Kenny a racist. Calling someone kebabs is alot more racist in my opinion.

limerick_man · 01-12-2005 10:04pm

Yeah, I dont like Sinn Fein or Fine Gael... them be the two that i dont want in power!
I like the PD's and I like Bertie Ahern, i think having the 'greatest leader in europe' is good for Ireland on all political fronts.

ratboy · 01-12-2005 10:06pm

'greatest leader in europe', do you happen to be rich?

BerigWielbark · 01-12-2005 10:12pm

Kudos Jaggeh...

I didn't see the joke as being offensive as such either...more ill-timed and frankly crap but not offensive.

Anne Winterton's "joke" was far more inflammatory.

segadreamcast · 01-12-2005 10:18pm

ratboy wrote:

'greatest leader in europe', do you happen to be rich?

No, he's like 16 though :P...

Hagar · 02-12-2005 9:17am

That wasn't a racist joke.
Something has to be funny to be a joke.

netwhizkid · 02-12-2005 1:04pm

ratboy wrote:

'greatest leader in europe', do you happen to be rich?

I reckon he must be, Only people who have something to gain would vote for those two. If Bertie Ahern is the greatest leader in Europe i was assassinated in the Congo.

J.R.HARTLEY · 02-12-2005 1:07pm

ratboy wrote:

'greatest leader in europe', do you happen to be rich?

maybe he was being sarcastic, hence the quote marks around the phrase

Shabadu · 02-12-2005 1:11pm

Ok- this has me a tad baffled. Kenny didn't call Lumumba the N word, he was referring to a barman who had called him such. Does this mean if I say "I heard someone call someone an offensive word once" mean that I had called the person the offensive word? No. That being said, I don't think he was being appropriate nor should use that word in any context.

AARRRGH · 02-12-2005 1:39pm

Yeah, this hardly makes him a racist.

If we're all honest, we've all laughed once or twice at highly politically incorrect jokes. That doesn't make us all racists though...

Still, he's a moron for saying it. His job is to NOT say things like that...

Jim10000 · 02-12-2005 1:51pm

oh shiiiiiite!!!!

i just wrote a STINKER of an e-mail expressing my disgust to the Fine Gael party h.q. and now I see that Guardian article is from 3 years ago????

what gives? why has this been brought up now?

is he still even leader of the party?

I'm just hoping that coincidentally he's gone and put his foot in it again recently and they'll think that's what I was on about.

DamoKen · 02-12-2005 2:03pm

Jim10000 wrote:

I'm just hoping that coincidentally he's gone and put his foot in it again recently and they'll think that's what I was on about.

thats hilarious, though chances are yeah they'll just think "oh fook, how did he find out about <insert latest gaff here>

segadreamcast · 02-12-2005 2:10pm

I know this isn't what you wanna hear Jim10000, but that's bloody hysterical :P.

Incidentally, jaggeh's comment is far funnier than the original 'joke' ...

FX Meister · 02-12-2005 6:16pm

Don't forget he also said he wasn't going after any 'black' votes as "they all look the same" and it would be hard to tell them apart at the polling stations. I have personally witnessed him call a chineese waitress a slope and his new poster boy Pascal Donohoe laugh along.

Hagar · 02-12-2005 6:24pm

FX Meister wrote:

I have personally witnessed him call a chineese waitress a slope.

This is getting worse.
Doesn't the fool know that "slope" is the correct derogatory term for a Korean? Pft...
If you're going to insult people at least have the decency to do it properly.

snickerpuss · 02-12-2005 7:44pm

"In London, a spokesman for the Commission for Racial Equality said it was 'inconceivable' that a prominent politician in Britain would use such language and keep his or her job."

Whats up with the British politician thing?

Shabadu · 02-12-2005 7:58pm

FX Meister wrote:

Don't forget he also said he wasn't going after any 'black' votes as "they all look the same" and it would be hard to tell them apart at the polling stations. I have personally witnessed him call a chineese waitress a slope and his new poster boy Pascal Donohoe laugh along.

When did he say that?

morlan · 02-12-2005 8:26pm

snickerpuss wrote:

"In London, a spokesman for the Commission for Racial Equality said it was 'inconceivable' that a prominent politician in Britain would use such language and keep his or her job."

Whats up with the British politician thing?

I've seen a few reports in British newpapers casualy referring to Ireland as Britain.

FX Meister · 02-12-2005 8:45pm

Hagar wrote:

This is getting worse.
Doesn't the fool know that "slope" is the correct derogatory term for a Korean? Pft...
If you're going to insult people at least have the decency to do it properly.

I'm sure they just "all look the same" to him.

FX Meister · 02-12-2005 8:48pm

Shabadu wrote:

When did he say that?

Which one? The comment about them all looking the same was in the paper some time last year. As for the slope comment, it was in the run up to the local elections in 2004 in a pub off the Navan road.

nobodythere · 02-12-2005 9:10pm

John R wrote:

Doesn't surprise me at all. The media in this country are as corrupt as the politicians.

I always thought Kenny was a pig ignorant little troll, I can now add stupid and un-funny to the list.

Actually we have the 4th free-est media in the world... according to some survey somewhere

SprostonGreen · 02-12-2005 9:27pm

I just hope the present shower of bastards are thrown out in the next election, they wont though. FG/Lab has to be a better alternative.

What was Enda Kenny's racist joke?

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