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Lauren Selsky's avatar

Beautiful post

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Jim Gibbons's avatar

I cannot agree with the praise heaped on Queen Elizabeth. I am black man who was born in Barbados. As as a lived experienced we have seen these English come to our country and act like the country is theirs. They try to stop us even using our own beaches. The Queen has done nothing in her reign to alleviate the unequal wealth in the country. She and her descendants and most white folks have benefited from the colonization of several Caribbean countries. They have gotten very rich from the slave trade and the sugar cane industry while our folks have to struggle to improve conditions in our living conditions. She has never at anytime offered an apology for the brutal and savage treatment that was thrust upon citizens of the Caribbean. Why should any black person with the knowledge of what occurred at the hand of the Queen and her descendants want to heaped praise on Her. One wonders when folks have not lived the experience, it is easy to do this kind of thing. Marianne Williamson is a person that I listened to earnestly but in this praising of Queen Elizabeth, she failed to mention the atrocities of the Queen and her folks. I am sure that she has her reason for this, but I would say that she has not had the LIVED Experience, so it may be okay for her to ignore these atrocities and pretend that they never happened. I will heap praise on my Grandmothers, Rose and Emily, my aunts and sisters and cousins, but I cannot in good faith to myself see any reason to be heaping praise on Queen Elizabeth whether she is alive or dead. This is the situation in life,we all have the best version of circumstances especially when the indignities did not happen to us. I am expecting the supporters of the Queen to see any relevance in my views here, and that is okay. I am a black man and I am living the experience. I will try the best to live the best life that I can, Queen or no Queen.

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