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[quote=Anonymous][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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I think you are a fool.  Don't care if you are from a colonized nation.  I am Irish-American and I know a thing or two about the british.  Nonetheless it is wrong to lay any of this at the royal family.  Attack the UK all you want but understand that during almost the entire period of colonization the royal family had no power.  So go after the UK.  But on the death of the queen you are wrong in yourt attack.  Wait a couple of month but it should be directed at the british people as a whole.  Even then the british people are not the same as they were then.  That is why it is best left as a matter of history.  Making amends is worthless.  Will help no one.  You live and move on.  If you could go back in time and get the bastards that did things, great.  But you can't.  You live life from where you are today.  Is the UK creating colonies today?  No.  In fact they spend a lot to help former colonies.  Anyone that wants out can get it.  You are lost in the past so your future is uncertain.[/quote]

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