Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and journalist Piers Morgan have joined many in criticising a Nigerian professor based in the United States Uju Anya who wished Queen Elizabeth II “excruciating pain” hours before her death on Thursday.
Anya called the Queen the head of a “thieving, raping, genocidal empire” on Twitter.
The world’s third-richest man then quoted Anya’s tweet and wrote: “This is someone supposedly working to make the world better?”
“I don’t think so,” Bezos added. “Wow.”
Journalist Piers Morgan wrote: “You vile disgusting moron.”
There have been previous calls for the associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to be fired from her job over her controversial remarks. The latest incident has seen more people add their voices to the call.
According to an interview with Anya that Carnegie Mellon published in January, the linguistics professor was born in Nigeria. She moved to the US when she was 10 and attended Dartmouth College, Brown University and the University of California, Los Angeles.
One time, the Foundational Black American organisation created a petition to get her removed from Carnegie Mellon University.
Anya was called out for using an ethnic slur, which means ‘cotton pickers’ or ‘wild animals.’
The petition to get her fired got nearly 800 signatures.
