Queen Elizabeth.

[robert.]

News stations are reporting she passed away today

[ScaleCraft]

Long Live the Queen!

[ScaleCraft]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61585886

[MartyE]

The whole Monarchy thing aside, she seemed like a really cool person.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

In my opinion, over time, I received this impression of her that she was entirely focused on the wellbeing of others and, thus, obtained great, immeasurable dignity in herself. One could sense her goodness.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Worth a moment’s contemplation:
A double rainbow appeared (and was photographed) across the sky, arching over Buckingham Palace, just as the formal public announcement of her passing was posted on the perimeter of the fence/gate in London.

I’m not sure what to think of that phenomenon .

[v8vega]

I never got British royalty, a life of wealth and privilege just because you were born into that family.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Many centuries of history give them deep roots for such a system and appreciation.

[robert.]

Maybe she didn’t want to deal with Ozzy coming home.

[HONDO74]

Apparently the QUEEN is not liked by the liberal establishment.
Liberals blast 'colonialism' after Queen Elizabeth's death: 'Murder, exploitation, theft'

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The death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday sparked posts on social media from verified accounts associating the late monarch with "colonialism" and suggesting she be blamed for various suffering and unrest across the world.

"Journalists are tasked with putting legacies into full context, so it is entirely appropriate to examine the queen and her role in the devastating impact of continued colonialism," Atlantic writer and former ESPN host Jemele Hill tweeted Thursday.

As reports of Queen Elizabeth’s deteriorating health were swirling, Carnegie Mellon University professor Uju Anya took to Twitter to wish the 96-year-old monarch "excruciating" pain on her deathbed.

"I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying," Anya tweeted on Thursday morning. "May her pain be excruciating."

The death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday sparked posts on social media from verified accounts associating the late monarch with "colonialism" and suggesting she be blamed for various suffering and unrest across the world.

"Journalists are tasked with putting legacies into full context, so it is entirely appropriate to examine the queen and her role in the devastating impact of continued colonialism," Atlantic writer and former ESPN host Jemele Hill tweeted Thursday.

As reports of Queen Elizabeth’s deteriorating health were swirling, Carnegie Mellon University professor Uju Anya took to Twitter to wish the 96-year-old monarch "excruciating" pain on her deathbed.

"I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying," Anya tweeted on Thursday morning. "May her pain be excruciating."

Anya later added, "If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star."

"The way I wish newspapers would write: ‘Colonizers lost one of their most beloved foot soldiers as Queen Elizabeth II, 96, mostly known for f***s**t and racism, has died,'" Huffington Post opinion writer Stephen Crockett Jr. tweeted.

"Black and brown people around the world who were subject to horrendous cruelties and economic deprivation under British colonialism are allowed to have feelings about Queen Elizabeth," Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah tweeted. "After all, they were her ‘subjects’ too."

"Telling the colonized how they should feel about their colonizer's health and wellness is like telling my people that we ought to worship the Confederacy," University of Michigan professor Ebony Elizabeth Thomas posted on Twitter. "'Respect the dead’ when we're all writing these Tweets *in English.* How'd that happen, hm? We just chose this language?"

"In nearly 200 years of genocidal colonialism, the British empire stole $45 trillion in wealth from India (17 times more than UK GDP), killing millions," journalist Ben Norton tweeted. "The UK monarchy, Queen Elizabeth, the royal family are simply symbols of murder, exploitation, and theft."

"For those saying we should be magnanimous about the passing of the queen, a reminder that the queen inserted herself into the lives of Indigenous people here multiple times," Macquarie University professor Sandy O’Sullivan tweeted. "She wasn't a bystander to the effects of colonisation and colonialism, she was an architect of it."

"The matriarch of a royal family legacy of slave-trading, imperialism, colonialism, theft, symbol of opulence and mascot for the ruling class is dead," director Boots Riley tweeted. "The media will now parade the queen's zombie *** in front of u while telling u that overthrowing capitalism is not what we need."

Queen Elizabeth's death has sparked calls from some for England to return some of its crown jewels to Africa and India to make amends for its past conquests. CNN anchor Zain Asher suggested that an apology for colonialism from the British monarchy is in order.

"There is now an understanding how much money the royal family may have made from slavery," Asher said on CNN. Their involvement in colonialism, and there are calls for reparations, right? And even if the reparations are unlikely to happen, you sort of do get this sense, you know, that it's unfortunate that there's been no apology, and that's what people really do take issue with at this point in time."

MSNBC host Ali Velshi used Queen Elizabeth's death as an opportunity to decry the "horrors of colonialism" which British historian Andrew Roberts dismissed as "wildly overstated."