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I've spent these last few days going from sadness to angry over Her Royal Highness The Queen Elizabeth death and the certain reactions and vile comments made about her. But I also see these comments for what they are, uneducated and they come from a place of hurt. I am aware of what the British Empire stands for to many people out there. And while there is many parts of my history (I'm scottish, not English but still considered british) I'm proud of, there is also a lot that sickens and shames me. And I think that to those people who have been hurt by the British Empire it is easy to blame the queen she is the only one that lived to this time to blame, and I'm not going to pretend that the monarchy didn't benefit from the colonisation, but the Queen was not a colonisers. So I would like to remind and or educate some to the accomplishments of My Queen, Britain's Queen, THE Royal Highness, Queen Elizabeth The Second.

Queen Elizabeth inherited the Crown in 1952, and by that time the Monarchy had very little power and authority. But she used what power and sway she had to do incredibly good things.

When in 1939 the Second World War broke out, Princess Elizabeth was only 13 years old. And when Buckingham Palace was Bombed, Her Father and Mother refused to leave their people and in doing so they choose to remain, but sent their two daughter away to safety. In 1944 Princess Elizabeth wanted to enlist and Help her people and country, when she came of age, of course her father was against that, as a father who didn't want his daughter in danger but also as the King who couldn't have his Heir in danger. Our Princess did not allow that to stop her and In 1945, when she was 18, Elizabeth was given permission to join the military effort. She joined the Women's Auxiliary Territory Service (ATS), and trained as an auto mechanic. And while that was not a combat role is was still an important and vital role, it also came with risks and danger, as at least 335 members of the ATS, were killed during the war.

A funny story, after the war in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth was 19 and her sister Princess Margaret was 14, they snuck into the streets of london and celebrated with their people, by dancing (Princess Margaret did the hokey pokey and took part in the chant of "we want the king" at the Palace railing. They both also took part and danced the conga through the ritz hotel . And shockingly none of the brits realised that it was their princesses among them)

In 1952 the British Empire was in rapid decline, with former colonies breaking away declaring themselves independent states, starting with India in 1947. And while the the process of the Commonwealth began in the late 19th century, it was really Queen Elizabeth that guided the country through a rapid acceleration of the process.

When in 1952 Queen Elizabeth was crowned, the Commonwealth has only eight member states, but today, there is 54 member states. Which means Queen Elizabeth seen to a process in which practically the entire British Empire transformed into a voluntary association of sovereign nations. Her own authority became largely ceremonial, and the British "empire" is down to just a few islands scattered around the globe, which I believe should have their choice of whether to stay or leave.

The Kingdom of England dates back thousand of years, and Elizabeth was one in a line of monarchs that dates back to 1066, when william the conqueror invaded the island. (That was Elizabeth line, not to be confused with the English and the Scottish Monarchy that truthed be told is really confusing to explain but basically the kingdom of England was created in the 10th century by the west saxon Kings when they extended their powers to Southern Britain. And the Scottish Monarchy was started by the first king of Scots Kenneth I MacAlpin ( Cınàed mac Ailpìn), who in 843 founded the Kingdom of Scotland. And then we had what was known as the union of the crown in 1603 when King John VI of Scotland was also crowned King of England due to Queen Elizabeth I of England dying without Heirs or husband so it was given the Scottish King John VI who was her Cousin and he basically became the last true king of Scotland. The unione of crowns also happened before england and scotland became the United Kingdom of britian and was still very much two separate and independent countries. Hope I explained it well but I thought it was important to explain exactly how old the monarchy is and not just The Queen Elizabeth II line in the monarchy.)

When King George VI, Elizabeth father took the throne, there was worry and uncertainty that the monarchy would survive. So while king George VI provided stability to His people, it really was our Queen Elizabeth II that saved the monarchy.

Her Majesty, stabilised the monarchy and modernised it, she was aware that her people wanted to see her so she appeared on television regularly, and spoke directly to the people, her people. She wasn't scared to embrace technology and infact in 2013 it was the Queen herself that sent the first royal tweet, she was also the first ever monarchy to record her Christmas message on film. And her Highness was a Christian, and while her belief caused her to hurt her loved ones (Princess Margaret and not allowing her to marry her love due to him being a divorcee, that she later came to regret deeply) she evolved and adjusted her approach to divorce, accepting that it was common and evening allowing and approving it to happen in her own family, her three out of four children are divorced. And allowing her grandson to marry a divorcee (harry and meghan). And in 2013 The Queen gave he approval of same sex marriage by signing the legislation Bill to allow same sex marriage. And When the Crown Act 2013 was passed it was known to be hugely due to her Majesty cooperation and influence. The Crown Act 2013 was important and symbolical as it, as it ended centuries of English history of the eldest son of a monarch being heir to the throne even if he had an older sister. So you know a great step on gender equality.

She was also the first ever monarch to address the Congress, it was in 1991 and by the THREE standing ovations it was a success.

The relationship between the Republic of Ireland and The British is a hard one to speak about. The conflict between the Irish and the brits was bloody and bitter. The English dominated the Irish for centuries and was the cause of the rift between the southern and northern island causing death, blood and war. Southern Ireland broke away and because the Republic of Ireland. (And if any Irish are reading this I would like say im sorry for scotlands part in it. As a scot I love Ireland, its country, its people, its language and scenery basically everything about it, and I hate to be one of those people, but my grandfather on my mother's side is a direct desendents of Irish parents who immigrated to Scotland, and my grandmother of my mother side grandparents immigrated to Scotland from Ireland,tho my father's side is completely scotland for hundreds of generations, so I'm not claiming to be Irish, I'm just proud of that fact)

The relation between the Republic of Ireland and britian, their previous imperial master, were marked by violence and death for decades and it resulted in a war between both sides of Ireland cause so much pain that is still felt to this day.

Which made Queen Elizabeth II's state visit to Ireland in 2011 an incredible achievement. She was the first monarch to make an official visit to the island since its independence.

her somber appearance at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin was a sensation in Ireland. She placed a wreath at the monument to those who died fighting the U.K. for Irish freedom and bowed her head respectfully. Many Irish took this as a subtle signal that the Queen acknowledged her own country's misdeeds.

According to The Guardian, the trip and the gesture made Queen Elizabeth II incredibly popular in a country that typically despised the monarchy as a former oppressor. The trip was an incredible achievement, especially considering that the queen had no true political power and somehow reset relations between the two countries simply by showing respect.

One of Queen Elizabeth's greatest achievements was a cumulative one: the sheer amount of effort she put into supporting various charities. She arguably did more for charity than any other monarch in history.

Queen Elizabeth was credited with being one of the greatest supporters of charity work in the world. According to Borgen Magazine, she supported more than 600 charities in Britain (the royal family as a whole officially supports nearly 3,000 charities around the world). The queen was responsible at least in part for raising an eye-popping £1.4 billion (close to $2 billion). The queen made it a special focus of her life to help reduce poverty.

While many don't like how expensive it is to uphold the monarchy and how the people have to pay for them, the Queen herself after a traditional waiver was lifted in the 1990s, moved quickly to pay taxes on royal income that had been exempt for years, according to Town and Country Magazine. And British Heritage notes that by getting rid of expensive things like the royal yacht, she was able to reduce the cost of the royal family by several million pounds annually.

one of the great and severy overlooked and just plain ignored achievements of the queen was the quiet work she did over the years to support racial equality and advancement in the world.

Queen Elizabeth's work began in her early years. In 1961, she danced with the president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, a Black man. This outraged many racists both in her own kingdom and the larger Commonwealth, but the queen was resolute in her support of equality. And she worked behind the scenes to get the Commonwealth to condemn South Africa's apartheid system, only to be stymied by her own prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, who opposed the statement for reasons both personal and political.

And Margaret Thatcher was a grade A bitch who no one liked and when she died all of britian had street party's and bon fires, the song "ding dong the witch is dead" was number one, so that tells you all you need to know about her.

the queen also supported the Black Lives Matter movement.

Queen Elizabeth has been credited with using her influence to pressure the South African government over its institutionalized racist segregation. Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, for instance, has described her as a "behind-the-scenes force" in helping to bring an end to South African apartheid. She worked behind the scene in the case of South Africa to offer encouragement to Nelson Mandela.

"When Queen Elizabeth gave Royal Assent to The Race Relations Act 1968, an Act of the Parliament making it illegal to refuse housing, employment, or public services to a person on the grounds of colour, race, ethnic or national origins in Great Britain; Queen Elizabeth wrote into the Commonwealth Charter that racial equality is a cornerstone of membership. A cornerstone she respected by backing African Leaders in the expulsion and sanctioning of Apartheid South Africa, that almost toppled the British Government, as HMTQ was in direct conflict with Margaret Thatcher, who wanted South Africa’s natural resources.

From 1953 to 1968 Queen Elizabeth dismantled the Imperial Court of the United Kingdom, ending its practices of refusing to employ people of colour in household positions. The Duke of Edinburgh was instrumental to these changes, famously penning a letter describing his disgust at the way the Maori people were being treated by New Zealand. A disgust he made very clear on his many visits to both Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, where he made many enemies by championing the lives of indigenous peoples. Something still celebrated today in the Pacific Islands, for instance on the visit to the Pacific islands by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who were given a traditional greeting of being carried on thrones as a mark of respect. The Duke and Duchess, despite appearing uncomfortable, respected these local traditions so as not to be insensitive and dismissive of a different culture.

The Commonwealth is Queen Elizabeth’s most cherished organisation due to its ability to navigate the political landscape, ensuring the flow of the most precious resource, knowledge. This ability of course is a reflection of Queen Elizabeth’s ability to ride over petty politics and enormous egos of politicians. Her leadership in fighting discrimination and racism in real terms through the Commonwealth Charter set her apart from other world leaders in the West, who would take another 20-30 years to catch up and in the case of the United States it took until 2022 to decide lynching is a Federal crime! "

(The last two paragraphs in quote marks, is not my own word but one I got from Duke Pantalaimon’s Blog, the links not working but it's a lovely blog and full of interesting articles.)

And to finish my post I would like to share a story I've just learned about the queen.

There is a man called michael fagan, and if anyone is reading this you should definitely google him. He broke in to Buckingham Palace twice. The first time, he wandered about eating cheese and crackers, got bored and left. But the second time happend, same year 1982, he simmed up a drain pipe and broke into the queen bedroom, where she was laying in her bed. He was going to cut his wrists In front of her, but she thankfully managed to get security.

There has been three known assassination attempts made on the queen. Once in a train, involving putting a log on the tracks, once on horse when a man fired six shot at her and she managed to keep her seat on the horse while police sorted the man and once at a public appearance overseas, where thankfully then was to far away.

Princess Ann also had a kidnapping attempt which led to 5 people being shot. She managed to keep her calm and have a reasonable conversation with the man and calmly telling him she wasn't going with him, she speaks out that on a interview, if you YouTube it.

Her Majesty the Queen, has served britian with devotion, faith and strength and we thank her for that. Not everyone has to like her, but a bit on human decency wouldn't go amis.

Thank you, your Highness, for all that you did, for all that you were and all that you stood for. God bless you, you promised to serve us until you died and you did. I will be forever thankful for you devotion to our country. Be at rest with your dear Philip, we will carry on.

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was talking with somebody about kentucky tourism and they mentioned that a lot of english folk come for horseracing and then just dropped the qoty out of nowhere

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By: Neirin Gray Desai

Published: Feb 23, 2023

Black Panther communist Angela Davis - who teaches that U.S. was built by racist colonizers - faces calls to pay reparations after genealogy show reveals her white puritan ancestor arrived in America on the Mayflower

• Angela Davis, 79, learned that her ancestor came to the US on the Mayflower • The former Black Panther also discovered she had two white grandparents • She appeared on PBS's Finding Your Roots in an episode that aired on Tuesday

A famed Black Panther who's also a communist has faced calls to pay reparations after discovering her ancestors were white puritans who arrived in the US on the Mayflower.

Angela Davis, 79, was flabbergasted to discover both sides of her family were white, and that her mom's ancestors were slave owners, on PBS show Finding Your Roots.

And the stunning revelations sparked calls for the famously woke Marxist University of California professor to herself pay reparations, having previously called on whites to pony-up in the past.

Sharing a tweet about the show, conservative pundit Matt Walsh wrote: 'It gets better. She's also descended from a slave owner. On her father's side is a pilgrim. On her mother's side is a slave owner. Looks like Angela Davis owes some reparations.'

Another Twitter user called AK Kamara wrote: 'Angela Davis, the radical Marxist and former black panther, recently discovered she is also the ancestor of colonizers and slave owners. I guess she owes herself reparations. This timeline is hilarious.'

Davis became nationally known in 1970 when guns she owned were used in the holding up of a Marin County courtroom in California which left four dead, including the judge.

After the FBI issued a warrant for her arrest she went on the run and became listed as one of the department's 10 Most Wanted. After her eventual arrest she spent 16 months in jail before being found not guilty.

Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1944 during an era of segregation and violent racial division in the South.

While studying in West Germany in her youth she was drawn to far-left politics and upon returning to the US became involved with the Black Panthers and the Communist Party USA.

She appeared shocked during the TV interview that aired this week in which Finding Your Roots host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. told her of her ancestry.

'No. I can't believe this. My ancestors did not come here on the Mayflower,' she said - only to be later told that they did indeed arrive in the US aboard the famed pilgrim ship.

The Mayflower was an English boat that brought white English families, known as the Pilgrims, to the American continent to permanently establish the New England colony in 1620.

'You are descended from the 101 people who sailed on the Mayflower,' reiterated Gates Jr., who is the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

The one-hour show, in which public figures learn about their ancestry, outlined how William Brewster, who traveled aboard the boat with his wife Mary Wentworth Brewster, was Davis's 10th great-grandfather.

Mary was one of only five adult women from the Mayflower to have survived the first winter after arriving in the US and one of only four such to survive until the 'first Thanksgiving' in 1621, which she was said to have helped cook.

The revelation caused many to point out the complexity of ancestry and on social media some suggested that by some logic Davis should pay black reparations.

The concept of reparations - an idea she has endorsed in the past - is that people with ancestors who were enslaved should be financially reimbursed by those whose ancestors enslaved them.

'This vividly illustrates the absurdity of reparations as a concept, among other things,' said one person on Twitter, in response to a clip of the revelation.

'Before any talk about reparations everybody needs to take the ancestry DNA test. I think a lot of people would be shocked to to discover who they were descended from,' said another.

Davis also made discoveries about her mother, Sallye Bell, who was found to be the daughter of a successful white Alabama lawyer who himself descended from a slave owner.

Bell was a school teacher and grew up in a foster home, never knowing either of her biological parents. Her mother had genetics that traced back to Africa but her father was John Austin Darden, who was also involved in politics, and was born in Rockford Coosa, Alabama, in 1879.

'He has my mother's lips,' Davis said as she was presented a photo of her grandfather. 'I can't get used to the fact this is my mother's father.'

A clipping from an old Alabama newspaper shone light on who Darden had been.

'The former publisher of the Goodwater Enterprise, who served as both a representative and a senator at various times from 1914 to 1933, had practiced law here 40 years.'

'Was he a member of the Ku Klux Klan or the white citizens council?' Davis asked. 'That's something I would also want to know. Because in those days in order to achieve that power one had to thoroughly embrace white supremacy.

'I'm both glad and I'm angry. I'm really, really angry,' she added.

As Gates went back further in time things got murkier still. Stephen Darden, her fourth great grandfather, was born in colonial Virginia around 1750.

He was a patriot who played the drums during the Revolutionary War, according to a muster roll. Afterwards he moved from Virginia to Georgia, where he owned a farm and at least six slaves.

'I always imagine my ancestors as the people who were enslaved. My mind and my heart are swirling with all of these contradictory emotions,' said Davis.

'I'm glad on the one hand we've begun to solve this mystery, we have something we didn't have before, but at the same time I think it makes me even more committed to struggling for a better world.

'This world that could give rise to such a beautiful person as my mother was not the world I want to see in the future,' she added.

Davis's father Benjamin Frank Davis grew in up in Lyndon, Alabama. His mother was Mollie Spencer butm similarly, nothing was known about his father.

Alabama Census records indicated that for at least ten years Mollie lived next door to a white man named Murphy Jones. Records stated that he sold her two acres of land for two hundred dollars and that the two were likely relatively close.

Using genetic profiles of Murphy's known living relatives, researchers found multiple matches to Angela, indicating that Jones was her grandfather.

Mollie Spencer's father was named Isom Spencer and was listed as collateral on a loan document filed by a slave owner named William K. Pauling, who owned a plantation in Marengo, Alabama.

'I assume that my ancestors lived on plantations as slaves, but of course I didn't know who they were and I didn't know who the slave owners were,' she said.

It transpired that Isom was a remarkable figure who marked the transition of her family from enslaved to free. Court records uncovered by PBS showed he even brought a complaint against the slaver over his nephews, who were being held in the plantation under 'apprenticeships'.

'I'm happy to find there's a motif of resistance there because that is what I feel I've been trying to do since I was a teenager,' said Davis, reflecting on her grandfather's struggle.

Couldn't happen to a better bigger race-baiter. It's even better than the time Henry Rogers blew up his entire schtick with one tweet. It's kind of like David Duke finding out he's the descendant of African slaves. They should do Nikole Hannah-Jones next.

It will be interesting to see how much - or, more likely, how little - integrity she has in the face of this information. Will she reconsider the fraudulent scholarship she's injected into her bogus academic domain, of which she's now on the other side? Or will she adhere to it and admit to the same inherited complicity, benefit and guilt in colonialism and slavery, not to mention the racism her ideology (and historical revisionism) claims is the founding principle and primary inheritance of the USA?

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John Guy set sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland on July 5, 1610.

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Fort Mose Historic State Park | Florida State Parks

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Mutual provocation was inevitable. So was bloodshed. No one was to blame.

In the early days of the occupation of each district, Colonists are frequently obliged to associate together, for self-defence against the blacks . . . For many obvious reasons, it seems highly desirable that this border warfare, when absolutely unavoidable, should be carried on under some control on the part of the Government. The establishment of the Native Police has contributed much towards this end.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

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Thanksgiving Day

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Thanksgiving Day, History, Celebration, Food and Quotes Thanksgiving Day is an annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. Similarly named festival holidays occur in Germany and Japan. Americans generally believe that their Thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the English colonists (Pilgrims) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag people. The American holiday is particularly rich in legend and symbolism, and the traditional fare of the Thanksgiving meal typically includes turkey, bread stuffing, potatoes, cranberries, and pumpkin pie. With respect to vehicular travel, the holiday is often the busiest of the year, as family members gather with one another. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated as a secular holiday as well. In the English tradition, days of thanksgiving and special thanksgiving religious services became important during the English Reformation in the reign of Henry VIII and in reaction to the large number of religious holidays on the Catholic calendar. Before 1536 there were 95 Church holidays, plus 52 Sundays, when people were required to attend church and forego work and sometimes pay for expensive celebrations. The 1536 reforms reduced the number of Church holidays to 27, but some Puritans wished to completely eliminate all Church holidays, including Christmas and Easter. The holidays were to be replaced by specially called Days of Fasting or Days of Thanksgiving, in response to events that the Puritans viewed as acts of special providence. Unexpected disasters or threats of judgement from on high called for Days of Fasting. Special blessings, viewed as coming from God, called for Days of Thanksgiving. For example, Days of Fasting were called on account of drought in 1611, floods in 1613, and plagues in 1604 and 1622. Days of Thanksgiving were called following the victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588 and following the deliverance of Queen Anne in 1705. An unusual annual Day of Thanksgiving began in 1606 following the failure of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 and developed into Guy Fawkes Day on November 5. Plymouth’s Thanksgiving began with a few colonists going out “fowling,” possibly for turkeys but more probably for the easier prey of geese and ducks, since they “in one day killed as much as…served the company almost a week. The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating “Thanksgivings,” days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought. The U.S. Continental Congress proclaimed a national Thanksgiving upon the enactment of the Constitution, for example.

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Thanksgiving Day Celebration In Canada the origins of Thanksgiving are sometimes traced to the French settlers who came to New France in the 17th century, who celebrated their successful harvests. The French settlers in the area typically had feasts at the end of the harvest season and continued throughout the winter season, even sharing food with the indigenous peoples of the area. In 1879 Parliament established a national Thanksgiving Day on November 6; the date has varied over the years. Since 1957 Thanksgiving Day has been celebrated in Canada on the second Monday in October. Thanksgiving is generally not celebrated in Australia. However, on the Australian external territory of Norfolk Island, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the last Wednesday of November, similar to the pre-World War II American observance on the last Thursday of the month. This means the Norfolk Island observance is the day before or six days after the United States' observance. The holiday was brought to the island by visiting American whaling ships. As millions in the US engage in the annual Thanksgiving day traditions of eating and shopping, it's worth remembering that not everyone celebrates the event. Back in 2015 a group of Native Americans revealed how they feel about the holiday in a series of powerful videos. Among the words they used were “sadness”, “slaughter” and “lies”. Asked about Columbus, people were invariably negative and dismissive. Most of the reactions were negative, with some referring to Thanksgiving as "a slaughter", and most saying the term redskin was racist. Some of those who took part cursed or raised a finger in anger. One termed the explorer “the first terrorist in America”. “It always was weird to me to have that day off in celebration of somebody, like, we don't have a day for Hitler, but it’s the same thing,” said one participant. Others said they were bewildered that he was even considered an important figure in history, given he “didn’t discover anything, and instead got lost”. “As indigenous people, we’ve been taught by our elders to give thanks every day,” she said. “We are a people who have survived genocide. People able to gather with our families is very important to us.” The turkey is the symbol for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner for American families. When the Pilgrim Fathers left Europe to settle in the colonies, they landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 and found their new home there. Persecution in the old continent had been harsh, but neither the long journey on board of the Mayflower to cross the Atlantic Ocean, nor the cold winter helped the new settlers, whose life, at the beginning was more than a struggle.

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