.sunny shared a very different take on the death of TheQueen on TheView
As the world mourns the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Sunny Hostin shared a very different take than the numerous tributes celebrating the life of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.
“I think though we can mourn the Queen and not the empire,” said Hostin on Friday’s edition of “The View”.“Because if you really think about what the monarchy was built on, it was built on the backs of Black and brown people,” she continued. Hostin pointed to the Queen’s iconic jewel-encrusted crown as an example of the brutality that characterized British colonialism.
“[The Queen] wore a crown with pillaged stones from India and Africa,” Hostin explained. “And now what you’re seeing, at least in the Black communities that I’m a part of, they want reparations.”She also referenced a controversial tweet from Carnegie Mellon professor Uji Anya, whose parents came from countries that were under colonial rule.
“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating,” she wrote in the tweet, which was removed from Twitter for violating the site’s content regulations.
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