This is probably my last post on the whole “Liz is dead” situation but I want to talk about my great grandmother, who is currently 92 years old. When I was growing up, hell even now, she’d tell me a lot about her own stories, mostly about how terrifying life was under both the British Raj and Nizam rule (her side of my family is from Hyderabad - Google the Nizams and the Razakars if you’ve never heard about them, that’s a whole other thing of its own).

Something I remember very clearly is her telling me about this one song she was forced to sing in her school - she went to a Christian convent school - and the song was about the greatness of “George Prabhu and Mary Rani,” aka George V, Elizabeth II’s grandfather. Recently my mom was able to film her singing this song so that we could listen to the lyrics, which are originally in Telugu, and roughly translated it means “we’re singing in honor of George and Mary, who are the rulers of India and have brought great fortune to India, and we see them as our father and mother.”

This is just a really difficult reminder that when we’re talking about why Elizabeth II and the royal family don’t deserve our respect or condolences, many of us have very personal stories that run deep through our families. “But she was a mother, a grandmother, a person” and I don’t care because she and her family were in the business of dehumanizing and erasing the identities of millions of other mothers, other grandmothers, other PEOPLE. Why else would my great grandmother be forced to sing a song in their honor? “But she wasn’t responsible for India” fair enough, her darling grandfather had a great time doing that, but how about you go and talk to Kenya? Or anyone in Africa? Or the Caribbean? I’m sick and tired of being told to “not speak ill of the dead” when REALLY I and millions of others should be getting an apology from anyone who wants to “praise her legacy” and talk about how “revolutionary” she was.

edit: i got the george’s mixed up before. george v is elizabeth ii’s grandfather. george vi is her father.

okay this is the best one of these

I just hope in the future, when teachers talk about the death of the queen, that they show this post to their students.

Just in case in case that happens: Hey y'all! I hope the monarchy and capitalism has been abolished by the time you're reading this, and good luck with the climate change we couldn't stop!

I can't wait for Ireland to throw a huge party celebrating that hag's death and invite everyone who's ever had a beef with the british

Honestly glad lizzie died.

Long live sir sausage fingers.

Tiocfaidh Ár MaLárky

Sometimes I think about how so so so many British ppl wish they were cowboys and wish they were Americans bc they have the fantasy of long road trips and standing in golden wheat fields and being a drifter like ok ya lil cunt I see you glaring at my cowboy boots you wish that you huh? Go cry in your sad grey little island bitch yee haw

Asking your boyfriend if they would still love you if you were a worm is OUT. Ask them if they would still love you if you were Br*tish instead !

i just read michael as "mi che ale" and ive been calling fries "chips" unironically for the past couple days to my absolute horror. it's always in such a shitbag tone too like "oh youre off to eat your *chips* now are you? hmmm yes i do say" like GRRR GET THE FUXK AWAY

if im turning british i might as well just cease to exist.

edit because i just realize the way i had it spelled was basically just michelle but it's actually supposed to be mii kh aele

being British should be illegal

Never

And i mean never

Trust the british with your books.

Live footage of The Crown writers right now

Y’all don’t talk to me… I just found out via ancestry that I am British… I’m gonna go cry brb

British people need therapy

That's it. That's the Tumblr manic episode.

The kennedy family is britain getting back at us for winning the revolution

Ain't nothing great about Britain smh