Sunday, June 05, 2022

a Venn diagram in honour of Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee

 

Orange circle labelled "Very fashionable" has the name "Laverne Cox" inside of it. Blue circle labelled "Very high ranking official in unrepentant colonizing empire" has the name "Caesar Augustus" inside of it. The circles are positioned to overlap slightly, and in the overlap is the name "QE II" for Queen Elizabeth II. Image by Rob Goetze @robgoetze. June 2022




In the midst of many people celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee - 70 years of being in power as queen -- and celebrations that include Queen singing songs to the Queen -- this is what is floating around inside my head.

Why are we celebrating the long reigning leader of one of the world's greatest colonial powers that wreaked havoc on so many of God's children worldwide through enslavement, exploitation, extraction, actual genocide and cultural genocide?

It seems colonization is hard to kill and hard to repent of, but easy to hide and forget....

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