A Carnegie Mellon professor who wished the Queen an ‘excruciatingly painful’ death on Twitter is continuing to lash out while calling the dead monarch a ‘representative of the cult of white womanhood.’
Uju Anya, 46, added that ‘half of (her) family was slaughtered with guns and bombs that this Queen sent to kill us’ in an interview with The Cut.
Anya, an applied-linguistics professor at the Pittsburgh university, is the daughter of a mother from Trinidad and a father from Nigeria. She told NBC News that she is ‘a child of colonization,’ and that her perspective was shaped by Britain’s role in the Nigerian Civil War.
‘My earliest memories were from living in a war-torn area, and rebuilding still hasn’t finished even today,’ she said.
She defended her remarks opposing the monarchy and added that the Queen was not exempt from the decisions made by the British government ‘she supervised.’
‘Queen Elizabeth was representative of the cult of white womanhood,’ Anya said.
‘There’s this notion that she was this little-old-lady grandma type with her little hats and her purses and little dogs and everything, as if she inhabited this place or this space in the imaginary, this public image, as someone who didn’t have a hand in the bloodshed of her Crown.’
New York Magazine’s The Cut on August 29 published a bombshell interview with Meghan Markle where she launched a new attack on the Royal Family – saying she and Harry were happy to leave Britain and were ‘upsetting the dynamic of the hierarchy… just by existing’.
The woke Carnegie Mellon professor who put out a tweet so acidic in response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II that Twitter took it down has continued to double-down on her anti-monarchy statements
Her Majesty, Queen of the United Kingdom, died on September 8, 2022
Carnegie Mellon University has distanced itself from Anya, telling DailyMail.com that it does ‘not condone the offensive and objectionable messages’
Anya’s initial tweet about Queen Elizabeth was deleted by Twitter
The Cut on August 29 published a bombshell interview with Meghan Markle where she launched a new attack on the Royal Family – saying she and Harry were happy to leave Britain and were ‘upsetting the dynamic of the hierarchy… just by existing’
The interview with Markle was released after it was claimed Harry and Meghan would not visit the Queen at Balmoral on their visit to the UK.
After the Queen’s death last week, Meghan postponed her Archetypes podcast and both she and Harry have remained in the UK. They are expected to stay until after the funeral on September 29.
On Saturday, Harry and Meghan joined the Prince and Princess of Wales outside the gates of Windsor Castle for a walkabout to greet the crowd.
In the latest attack against the Royal Family in The Cut, Anya defended her vile message about the Queen and said she will continue to stand by and defend it.
‘In my tweet, I did not wish her dead,’ Anya said. ‘I did not tell anyone to kill her. I said nothing except wishing her the pain in death that she caused for millions of people. There’s not going to be any apology from me. I stand by what I said.
”Speak no ill of the dead’ is a weapon that’s leveled against the oppressed to silence them, to lionize oppressors, and to sanitize their history. What respect am I supposed to have for her, for her family?
”Oh, well, her family is mourning her.’ My family is mourning as well.’
In her defense of her tweet, Anya also called out Jeff Bezos, who sub-tweeted Anya and said: ‘This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow.’
‘Jeff Bezos incited violence against me,’ Anya said. ‘He rarely tweets in his own voice, but he took the time to single me out when literally half the planet rejoiced over the news.’
Anya claimed that as a result of his tweet, she received racist and misogynistic emails.
She called Bezos a ‘small and petty man’ and added that his response was directly correlated with her connection with Chris Smalls, who led union efforts against Amazon.
‘I recently met Chris Smalls, the young Black man who unionized at Amazon, at an event,’ she continued.
‘I took a picture with him and tweeted it, praising him and saying, ‘Extraordinary brilliant and powerful young man who unionized Amazon.”
Hundreds of people slammed the crude professor for her comments about the Queen’s final hours, including Jeff Bezos (pictured)
Anya cited Bezos’ response to her tweet in her defense and said it ‘incited violence’ against her
Carnegie Mellon University responded that Anya’s views do not represent their school but also refused to allow her to face consequences so far and have not fired her
Carnegie Mellon University has distanced itself from Anya, telling DailyMail.com that it does ‘not condone the offensive and objectionable messages.’
‘Free expression is core to the mission of higher education, however, the views she shared absolutely do not represent the values of the institution, nor the standards of discourse we seek to foster,’ a spokesperson said.
The school however has not taken any action against her, and she remains employed.
Students at the university wrote a letter in support of Anya while criticizing the university’s response. It was signed by hundreds of current and former students, according to Newsweek.
Anya has continued to double-down on her comments against the Queen, and has repeatedly said she will not apologize for them
The Imperial State Crown, along with a sceptre, serves as the principal crown for the British monarch. The Queen was pictured at her coronation in 1953 with the sceptre and bejeweled crown
‘We recognize her immensely impactful role on campus and believe firmly in her right to free speech and safety,’ the letter said.
‘Public condemnation of her tweet provides no institutional protection from violence and places her in a precarious position, ignoring a long history of institutional racism and colonialism.
‘Rejecting calls for ‘civility’ that are frequently leveraged against the marginalized to silence dissent, we express our solidarity with Dr. Anya and reject the tone-policing of those with legitimate grievances.’
Anya’s doubling-down of her comments follow another tweet stating she will not apologize.
She tweeted: ‘If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star.’
Anya (right) pictured with Chris Smalls (left), whom Anya says her connection with is the reasoning behind Bezos responding to her tweet
Smalls, 34, is known for his leading of the unionization of Amazon workers in Staten Island
The ‘anti-racist’ professor has faced allegations of racism in the past for the words she has used online – and in one instance, Foundational Black Americans created a petition to get her removed from Carnegie Mellon University.
Anya, who claims to be an expert in ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion,’ was called out for using an ethnic slur, which means ‘cotton pickers’ or ‘wild animals.’
The petition to get her fired garnered nearly 800 signatures.
It read: ‘Dr. Uju Anya can not be allowed to use the platform of Carnegie Mellon University Department of Modern Languages to further promote systemic racism through her blatant use of ethnic slurs on social media when referring to Foundational Black Americans.
‘This is a step backward in our fight to destroy systemic racism and discrimination for all people if institutions allow professors to become comfortable with using language as a weapon against people of color by people of color.
‘Society MUST hold all people accountable equally and we call on Carnegie Mellon University to take action against this type of egregious behavior to protect the reputation and integrity of the Higher Learning Institution.’
One person who signed the petition said that the professor can’t be trusted with children.
They added: ‘I’m concerned for the children. She can’t be trusted with kids. I wouldn’t want racist of any color teaching my children.’
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