‘I DON’T MOURN’: Scathing opinion piece links monarch to event that led to ‘a million children starving to death.’
Birmingham City University professor Kehinde Andrews told MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi that he wasn’t sad about the passing of Queen Elizabeth II because she represented "White supremacy" and "colonialism."claims he does not mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II because she is the"manifestation of the institutional racism that we have to encounter on a daily basis."
Andrews opened his piece by describing how unaffected he and his family were by the Queen’s death last Thursday, writing,"Whilst the news of Queen Elizabeth’s death sparked concern, sadness and even panic in many of my white colleagues at work last week, I looked on mostly bemused. I am not alone in this feeling of detachment; most of my Black family and friends here feel the same.
"But you cannot detach Britain from its empire; the colonies were just as, if not more, important to making the nation ‘great’ as anything that took place on these shores," he declared.Andrews’ piece attacked the claim that Elizabeth II did not participate in or at least wound down British colonialism."may have been on the throne to witness the dismantling of the empire. But she was also monarch for the brutal subjection of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the fifties...
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