LinkedIn user says Queen Latifah ‘only queen I cry for’
A LinkedIn consumer prompted a stir when he denounced Queen Elizabeth and refused to precise sorrow over her dying — insisting as a substitute that rapper Queen Latifah “is the one Queen I’m prepared to cry over when she passes.”
Jermaine L. Murray, a Toronto-based profession coach and tech recruiter who based the corporate JupiterHR, took to LinkedIn on Friday to chime in on the dying of the British monarch, who handed away at age 96 on Thursday.
“As a Jamaican and Canadian, The Queen’s household has achieved unimaginable hurt to my Household, Nation, Group and Bloodline,” he wrote.
“I mourn for my misplaced heritage and as such, that is the one Queen I’m prepared to cry over when she passes.”
The put up generated hundreds of reactions and a whole bunch of feedback.
Most of those that reacted agreed with Murray, however there was some backlash.
“What has she achieved particularly?” responded Poul Oddershede.
“Shame to state these issues the time she dies, full lack of respect.”
“I absolutely hear what you’re saying however am disenchanted by the timing thereof,” opined Terry Herrmann.
Amrita Chandhiok wrote that she was born in India, which was as soon as a British colony.
“I empathize and perceive what lots of people have been posting,” she wrote.
“However my huge query is why are you continue to dwelling previously? A few of these international locations bought freedom 50-60 years in the past and nonetheless proceed to elect leaders that plunder them recklessly.”
“So, who ought to we proceed accountable?”
LinkedIn consumer Phil Metal challenged Murray.
“Please increase in your assertion,” Metal wrote. “I’d like to listen to precisely which members of the family did unimaginable hurt to your loved ones?”
“All of them proceed to profit from the earnings of slavery and my household continues to be coping with the repercussions of slavery and colonialism,” Murray responded.
“The Queen and Andrew declined to pay reparations for slavery or provide an apology. They actually stated, ‘We’ll take into consideration apologizing at some point’.”
Till the UK agrees to pay $10 billion in reparations to Jamaica, Murray stated he’ll provide “prayers down.”
“I hope she burns within the fires of hell,” he wrote.
After information of Queen Elizabeth II’s dying was introduced on Thursday, a Carnegie Mellon College professor, Nigerian-born Uju Anya, tweeted that she wished the monarch an “excruciating” dying.
“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is lastly dying,” Anya tweeted.
“Might her ache be excruciating.”
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the world’s third richest particular person, condemned her, responding to the tweet: “That is somebody supposedly working to make the world higher?”
“I don’t suppose so,” Bezos added. “Wow.”
Twitter deleted the tweet, citing a violation of its phrases of use. However Anya refused to apologize. Carnegie Mellon launched a press release saying that it “doesn’t condone” her tweets, however gave no indication it plans to self-discipline her.
In Argentina, which fought a conflict with the British in 1982 over the Falkland Islands, a tv host poured champagne and toasted the monarch’s dying stay on the air.
Viral video additionally confirmed Irish soccer followers chanting “Lizzy’s in a field” in celebration of her dying.
