Twitter Deletes Tweet by Nigerian Professor, Uju Anya, Wishing the Queen ‘an Excruciating Death’

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Twitter has removed a series of tweets written by Nigerian-born critical race theory professor, Uju Anya, mocking Queen Elizabeth II just hours before her death.

Anya is an “anti racist” teacher and associate professor at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and she sparked outrage after calling the ailing Queen the head of a “thieving, raping, genocidal empire”.

Writing shortly before the Queen’s death was announced, Anya said she hoped the Monarch’s final hours of pain “be excruciating.”

The tweet, now deleted by Twitter, modern language teacher Anya wrote, “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.

“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.

“That wretched woman and her bloodthirsty throne have f***** generations of my ancestors on both sides of the family, and she supervised a government that sponsored the genocide my parents and siblings survived. May she die in agony.” 

Twitter later removed the posts for violating their rules. 

Queen Elizabeth died today at the age of 96. She passed away surrounded by members of the Royal Family at Balmoral Castle, Scotland. 

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