Hostin’s claim came in response to a Joy Behar story about her time doing standup in the UK, where she said jokes about the Queen didn’t go over well. Hostin said that, having lived in the UK, she herself became caught up in the “glitz and circumstance” surrounding the monarchy. He offered a more critical view today. “Because if you really think about what the monarchy was built on,” he continued, “it was built on the backs of black and brown people.” The View co-host held up the crown itself as an example. “She [the Queen] he wore a crown of looted stones from India and Africa,” Hostin said. “And now what you’re seeing, at least in the black communities that I belong to, they want reparations.” The debate comes after a controversial tweet by a Carnegie Mellon professor yesterday that wished Queen Elizabeth II excruciating pain in her final hours. “I heard that the arch-monarch of a thieving genocidal raping empire is finally dying. Let her pain be excruciating,” tweeted Uju Anya, whose parents were both from countries under British colonial rule. Looks like Twitter has deleted this tweet by Uju Anya for violating Twitter rules. pic.twitter.com/bjtW6RtodK — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 8, 2022 Jeff Bezos profiled her post questioning its purpose and tone. The tweet was later removed for violating Twitter’s content policies. Carnegie Mellon called the professor’s tweet “offensive and unacceptable” and said it did not “represent the values ​​of the institution, nor the standards of discourse we seek to promote.” But Hostin saw Anya’s tweet – apart from wishing the Queen pain – as a simple fact. “There is no lie in the rest of this tweet,” he replied. “It was a stealthy, hasty, genocidal empire.” Referring to (now) King Charles, Hostin continued: “It is time for him to modernize this monarchy and it is time for him to provide reparations to all these colonies.” He also suggested that Charles “could face accusations of racism from his son and Meghan Markle as well”. REFLECTING ON Queen Elizabeth’s 70-year reign: As the world bids farewell to Queen Elizabeth II, #TheView co-hosts look back at her life and discuss the monarchy’s complicated past, present and future under King Charles III. pic.twitter.com/QbJiBCl4wD — The View (@TheView) September 9, 2022