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[quote=Anonymous]How is this so hard for people to understand? Some of us are from former colonized nations. The Queen may not have personally undertook that colonization, but she didn't try to make any amends during her reign. A lot of people suffered immensely under the British. The Queen may have personally done good, engaged in charitable works, etc., but the reason she has so much money to do that charity in the first place is because of the type of dealings her family engaged in.

The same issue is here in the States. The reason why are a superpower at all is because we were able build the country on stolen land and free labor. We aggrandize some major slave owning racists, and it's only now in recent history that there's been some level of reckoning at least in public discourse.

I think this just points to peoples' discomfort with their own controversial histories. Is it enough to just own up to it? Or should something else be done to make amends? The UK has to decide itself what ought to be done, but in the US, we aren't even close to making any amends to indigenous people or to the descendants of slaves. 
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