(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Sonny Hostin, co-host of The View, couldn’t help herself from turning the death of Queen Elizabeth II into an opportunity to push a divisive agenda, accusing the Queen of being a racist colonizer.
According to Daily Mail, Hostin slammed her Majesty on The View a day after her passing, decrying the monarch for wearing a crown with jewels “pillaged from India and Africa.”
Hostin, who lived and studied in London, said she believes it is okay to “mourn the Queen,” but “not the empire.”
“Because if you really think about what the monarchy was built on, it was built on the backs of black and brown people,” Hostin declared.
Not to be outdone, View co-host Ana Navarro weighed in with a slap at Catholics.
“The Catholic Church was built on the backs of black and brown people who were forced to convert to Catholicism,” Navarro said.
Along with taking a swipe at the Queen and taking issue with the past of the British Empire, Hostin defended a truly vile tweet by Uju Anya, a professor at Carnegie Mellon, who wished the Queen’s final moments to be “excruciating.”
“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating,” she posted.
Hostin defended Anya, proclaiming her agreement that, “It was a thieving, raping genocidal empire.” She also announced that people of color want and deserve reparations for the British Empire’s actions.
“She wore a crown with pillaged stones from India and Africa,” Hostin huffed of the Queen. “And now what you’re seeing, at least in the black communities that I’m a part of, they want reparation.”
The Koh-i-noor diamond from India sits at the top of the crown made for the Queen’s mother in 1937, and a gem known as the Great Star of Africa is embedded in her scepter.
