Royalty

I Won’t Cry Over the Death of a Violent Oppressor

The news of Queen Elizabeth II’s death has been met with public
outpourings of grief commemorating her service as the longest-reigning
monarch in British history. But not everyone is in mourning. For many
impacted by the lasting legacy of the British Empire — one marked by
genocide, racism, and exploitation — her death has been met with
indifference, rage, and even celebration. “I heard the chief monarch
of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying,” Uju Anya, an
applied-linguistics professor at Carnegie Mellon, tweeted on Thursday.
“May her pain be excruciating.”