In interviews and social media posts, Black Americans said they respected the queen’s sense of duty and her loyalty to her family, but they also saw in her an embodiment of white supremacy and inequality.
Queen Elizabeth II’s death at age 96 sparked a global outpouring of grief and kind words for a woman who was beloved by many.
Hopkinson said it’s hard for those who didn’t personally experience British colonialism to understand the complex relationship between the queen and her far-flung subjects. The queen’s death had Melissa Murray, a professor at the New York University School of Law, similarly thinking about her childhood. Murray was raised in the United States but spent long stretches of her childhood summers with her family in Jamaica. As a child, Murray was “obsessed” with the royal family, specifically “the kind of fairy tale element of it.” She said that the royal family just felt “omnipresent” in their lives.
Some told her that Elizabeth’s death wasn’t the time to discuss colonialism; some even questioned if she knew what the word colonialism meant. The tweet was later deleted by Twitter after an outcry, including by a British tabloid. Leslie Mac, a North Carolina-based political activist and first generation American of Jamaican descent, said that it seemed to her that Black women were attacked for their posts about the queen in ways that others were not.
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