Free speech
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2022 9:36 pm
Dr. Uju Anya, a Nigerian professor at Carnegie Mellon Tweeted-
“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating,” the professor wrote before it was announced the Queen had died.”
After much backlash she Tweeted:
“ “If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star,” she tweeted.”
It makes me think of what would be Tweeted if Putin was on his deathbed. How would anyone feel if a leader responsible for a genocide of your people died.
African history is hard to follow because of rapid changes and new countries emerging while old ones disappear. 50 years ago colonialism was still alive in African countries.
Many have forgiven England but the younger generations can’t forget the stories of their grandparents and parents suffering in the name of the crown and the brutality.
““You can look at the monarchy from the point of view of high tea and nice outfits and charity,” said Alice Mugo, a 34-year-old lawyer in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. “But there’s also the ugly side, and for you to ignore the ugly side is dishonest.”
Ms. Mugo said she recently found her grandmother’s “movement pass,” issued when the British colonial government in Kenya declared a state of emergency to help suppress the anticolonial Mau Mau rebellion. The passes restricted the free movement of Kenyans.”
This clampdown on Kenyans, which began just months after the queen ascended the throne, led to the establishment of a vast system of detention camps and the torture, rape, castration and killing of tens of thousands of people.
Young people like Naledi Mashishi was told her South African grandmother was forced to sing the God Save the Queen anthem each day at school.
And in the wake of the queen’s death, Ms. Mashishi joined a legion of young South Africans demanding the return of the diamonds that form part of the crown jewels.
The stone was a gift from the Afrikaner government to Elizabeth’s cousin, King Edward VII after the South African War, also known as the Anglo-Boer War. But Black South Africans have questioned whether a hostile occupation of a White minority government’s had any right to it.
People who have lost family members during a brutal occupation have the right to say whatever they want. Just like Ukrainians will with Putin.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... ml?r=45898
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/09/worl ... mpire.html
“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating,” the professor wrote before it was announced the Queen had died.”
After much backlash she Tweeted:
“ “If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star,” she tweeted.”
It makes me think of what would be Tweeted if Putin was on his deathbed. How would anyone feel if a leader responsible for a genocide of your people died.
African history is hard to follow because of rapid changes and new countries emerging while old ones disappear. 50 years ago colonialism was still alive in African countries.
Many have forgiven England but the younger generations can’t forget the stories of their grandparents and parents suffering in the name of the crown and the brutality.
““You can look at the monarchy from the point of view of high tea and nice outfits and charity,” said Alice Mugo, a 34-year-old lawyer in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. “But there’s also the ugly side, and for you to ignore the ugly side is dishonest.”
Ms. Mugo said she recently found her grandmother’s “movement pass,” issued when the British colonial government in Kenya declared a state of emergency to help suppress the anticolonial Mau Mau rebellion. The passes restricted the free movement of Kenyans.”
This clampdown on Kenyans, which began just months after the queen ascended the throne, led to the establishment of a vast system of detention camps and the torture, rape, castration and killing of tens of thousands of people.
Young people like Naledi Mashishi was told her South African grandmother was forced to sing the God Save the Queen anthem each day at school.
And in the wake of the queen’s death, Ms. Mashishi joined a legion of young South Africans demanding the return of the diamonds that form part of the crown jewels.
The stone was a gift from the Afrikaner government to Elizabeth’s cousin, King Edward VII after the South African War, also known as the Anglo-Boer War. But Black South Africans have questioned whether a hostile occupation of a White minority government’s had any right to it.
People who have lost family members during a brutal occupation have the right to say whatever they want. Just like Ukrainians will with Putin.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... ml?r=45898
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/09/worl ... mpire.html