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Queen Elizabeth II’s death on Thursday sparked social media posts from verified accounts that associate the late monarch with “colonialism” and suggest that she has been blamed for various suffering and unrest around the world.
“Journalists are tasked with putting the legacies into full context, so it’s entirely appropriate to examine the queen and her role in the devastating impact of continuing colonialism,” Atlantic writer and former ESPN host Jemele Hill tweeted Thursday.
As reports of Queen Elizabeth’s deteriorating health swirled, Carnegie Mellon University professor Uju Anya taken at Twitter to wish the 96-year-old monarch “excruciating” pain on her deathbed.
“I heard that the monarch leader of a violent thieving genocidal empire is finally dying,” Anya tweeted Thursday morning. “He May the pain of him be excruciating.”
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A man places flowers between the gates outside Buckingham Palace as news that Queen Elizabeth II died today, September 8, 2022.
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Anya later added, “If anyone expects me to express anything but contempt for the monarch who oversaw a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those living today are still seeking to overcome, you can continue to wish on a star ».
“The way I would like the newspapers to write: ‘The colonizers lost one of their most beloved foot soldiers when Queen Elizabeth II, 96, known mostly for c *** and racism, died,'” the opinion writer Huffington Post’s Stephen Crockett Jr. tweeted.
“People of color and color around the world who have been subjected to horrendous cruelty and economic hardship under British colonialism may have feelings for Queen Elizabeth,” tweeted Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah. “After all, they were her ‘subjects’ too.”
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“Telling the colonized how they should feel about their colonizer’s health and well-being is like telling my people that we should worship the Confederacy,” University of Michigan Ebony Professor Elizabeth Thomas tweeted. “‘Respect the dead’ when we write all these Tweets * in English. * How did this happen, hm? Did we just choose this language?”
Washington Post reporter Eugene Scott responded to those who expressed opposition to the discussion of the effects of “colonialism” shortly after Queen Elizabeth’s death by asking when that conversation should take place.
“The real question for the crowd ‘now is not the right time to talk about the negative impact of colonialism’: when is the right time to talk about the negative impact of colonialism?”
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Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles in full court dress
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“In nearly 200 years of genocidal colonialism, the British Empire has stolen $ 45 trillion of wealth from India (17 times more than the UK’s GDP), killing millions of people,” tweeted reporter Ben Norton. “The British monarchy, Queen Elizabeth, the royal family are simply symbols of murder, exploitation and theft.”
“For those who say we should be magnanimous about the queen’s death, to remember that the queen has entered the indigenous lives here several times,” tweeted Macquarie University professor Sandy O’Sullivan. “She was not a spectator of the effects of colonization and colonialism, she was an architect”.
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“The matriarch of a royal family legacy of slave trade, imperialism, colonialism, theft, a symbol of opulence and a mascot of the ruling class is dead,” tweeted director Boots Riley. “The media will now parade the queen’s zombie ass in front of you as they tell you that overthrowing capitalism is not what we need.”
Queen Elizabeth II arrives to celebrate the completion of the London Crossrail project at Paddington Station on May 17, 2022 in London.
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Queen Elizabeth’s death has sparked requests from some for England to return some of her crown jewels to Africa and India to make amends for her past conquests. CNN host Zain Asher suggested that an apology for colonialism from the British monarchy is needed.
“There is now an understanding of how much money the royal family may have earned from slavery,” Asher told CNN. Their involvement in colonialism and there are demands for redress, right? And while repairs are unlikely to happen, somehow you get this feeling, you know, that it’s a shame there was no apology, and that’s what people are really questioning right now. “
MSNBC host Ali Velshi used Queen Elizabeth’s death as an opportunity to denounce the “horrors of colonialism” that British historian Andrew Roberts dismissed as “wildly overrated”.
Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest serving monarch, died Thursday at Balmoral Castle in Scotland at the age of 96.
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The The Queen’s doctors Thursday they said they were “worried about Her Majesty’s health” and that she was “resting comfortably” in Balmoral under medical supervision.
She died “in peace” Thursday afternoon, Buckingham Palace said in a statement.
