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The past couple of weeks have seen wall to wall coverage of Queen Elizabeth\u2019s death. Many media outlets took to eulogizing the Queen with effusive praise of her service and duty. But not everyone saw her and the insitution she headed in the same light.<\/p>\n
Many<\/a>\u00a0took to\u00a0social media<\/a>\u00a0to discuss the\u00a0Queen\u2019s role in Britain\u2019s imperial project<\/a>, which includes profiting from and remaining silent on the violence of British colonialism and slavery. Uju Anya, a Nigerian linguistics researcher at Carnegie Mellon University was only one of the public figures who expressed her lack of pity for the Queen\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n In a tweet, she wrote: \u201cI heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.\u201d<\/p>\n In another tweet removed by Twitter,\u00a0she also wrote<\/a>: \u201cThat wretched woman and her bloodthirsty throne have f***** generations of my ancestors on both sides of the family, and she supervised a government that sponsored the genocide my parents and siblings survived. May she die in agony.\u201d<\/p>\n Twitter eventually deleted her other post, but not before it was met with backlash from many including Amazon\u2019s Jeff Bezos. Bezos\u2019s public admonition brought global attention \u2014 negative and positive \u2014 to Anya\u2019s remarks. But in light of the\u00a0criticism<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0harassment<\/a>\u00a0that she began to receive, her employer, Carnegie Mellon University, chose to denounce her comments.<\/p>\n \u201cMy experience of who she was, and the British government she supervised, is a very painful one,\u201d Anya\u00a0said in an interview<\/a>. \u201cThe harm shaped my entire life and continues to be my story and that of the people she harmed \u2014 that her government harmed, that her kingdom harmed, however you want to frame it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe genocide of the Biafra killed 3 million Igbo people,\u201d she said, referring to the Nigerian Civil War, \u201cand the British government wasn\u2019t just in political support of the people who perpetrated this massacre; they directly funded it. They gave it political cover and legitimacy.\u201d A statement regarding recent social media posts by Uju Anya. pic.twitter.com\/NinpPa4rZg<\/a><\/p>\n — Carnegie Mellon University (@CarnegieMellon) September 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n\n\n\nLegacy of colonialism still resonates<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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