It feels peculiar seeing ongoing fawning over the Royals, whilst reading about the unimaginable horror of the Biafra crisis and other aspects of colonialism. So, so much sadness for one person's death, yet many millions of human beings were oppressed, tortured and killed largely without recognition by our media and political establishment.

On Twitter when the Queen died, there were countless people celebrating. I think that they're ignorant of the reality that she didn't have power to issue instruction (just as, several weeks ago, Meghan fans were ignorantly laughing that William has an environmental initiative - The Earthshot Prize - whilst our waterways are full of sewage, as though he has control over UK environmental legislation and water infrastructure).

The evils of colonialism can't be attributed to one now deceased woman, they have been the result of barbaric selfishness and racism in the hearts of many politicians and generals. But I need to learn more about this history - and the powers that be in our country should be working far harder to address the enduring ripple effects.

The Royal family has ridiculous wealth largely because of injustices that were carried out before they (the current members and the Queen) were born. As Westerns, most of us - including those Americans joining in celebrating the death of the Queen - though paupers as compared to the Royal family, are wealthy as compared to many people elsewhere in our world, in no small part because of these injustices.

 

A few clarifications - I truly hope that God comforts the relatives of the Queen who are grieving.

And so far as I've been able to discern, she was generally a caring person, I'm grateful for her various positive attributes whilst feeling that the extent of reverence for a monarch (any monarch) is odd.

I'm also very conscious that, whilst some are exuding misplaced vitriol, many people around the world have other views. A certain television personality has responded to the malicious comments by attacking a whole group. He is illogical to do so.

 

Whilst much of the public has at some point said "God save the Queen", I believe that she was saved whilst much of the public is not. That is to say, I believe that she accepted Jesus' offer of salvation - offered to everyone - whilst most Brits haven't.

If only more people knew that The King - Jesus - offers each of us something greater than any monarchy's riches.

This is decent piece from The Independent RE the reality that the Queen was not responsible for the atrocities - but the atrocities enacted by our country's leaders (and armies, and corporations) over centuries are so indescribably abhorrent and overlooked here in Britain. People blaming the Queen are incorrect (yet incorrect people are entitled to express their feelings), but it's also incorrect that the passing of one person has quite so much attention and mourning as it does (would she - anecdotally fairly humble as a person - even have wanted quite so many people crying and piling up flowers?) whilst the deaths of so many othes have had so little. 
Apparently a piece from the NYT was (wrongly, I suspect) heavily criticised by monarchists for drawing attention to the empire, and even that piece pointed out the Queen had disagreements with politicians about oppressive foreign policy. The victims of the British empire deserve to be mourned too - we've heard many times in recent days about how the monarchy represents "history", and how this passing is "a historic event", but so much history is overlooked.
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