I say as a white man, that it is truly sad to the Queen, who turned African nations into concentration camps and called them, quaintly enough, colonies, who used American Gatling guns in the 1870s onwards to mow down fields of Africans who were defending their countries, forcing unfair treaties on the numerous countries of dignified people the brutally forced into repressive treaties, and who then used their forced slave labor to extract coal, cacao, coffee, grains, and mineral at a cheap cost to ship back to Britain as input into the industrial factories, is criticized in such a negative way.
She was a lovely symbol of hundreds years or repression, turning conquered black Africans into adoring fans, mostly through bribing their leaders and instilling corruption at the top to keep their countries in disorder with the perception of mismanagement so that they can still extract resources at cheap repressed prices. I think she is a lovely example of stable and constant overt white supremacy. Her family started the Atlantic slave trade under King James the first, running and profiting from captured black humans until the Americans shut it down by phasing it out after their rebellion.
Seriously, it truly boggles the mind how any black African, or black American, can praise a monarchy that invented slave trading and then turned many African countries in slave labor camps by invading them. It is the massive hundred’s years long gaslighting with pageantry and bejeweled crowns and gold carriages that has made everyone fawn own a monarchical dynasty that invaded and enslaved nations and invented and controlled the slave trade for hundreds of years. British monarchical racism far outstrips American racism in the damage it has done to the world, starting in America and continuing in the Caribbean and Africa.
Our white supremacy is horrific to view, since it is more openly rancid with it glorified lynchings by rednecks and its the foul mouthed representatives from Senator Ben Tillman to Strom Thurmond to Trump and Lindsey Graham (to name a striking few). But since theirs was done with stiff upper lip dignity and panache in beautiful costumes, and a unimpeachable gentrified Queen, they don’t seem to get as much criticism for what in reality is a empire of greed, murder, and natural resource extraction far greater and longer than any other.
I’m glad to see this column, that shows “normal” black Americas and Africans speaking out against a vile racist supremacist tradition. Note that normal whites should be doing the same (though I suspect I might be relatively alone here).
