In Jamaica, in Antigua, the Prime Minister has said that they're setting a goal to be severed from the Queen within three years. Mark Whitaker: The Black Lives Matter protests in the U.S., which are directed at white police officers as a oppressive cultural force, translate in the Caribbean into anger at a white royal monarchy. He says this movement to cast off the Queen makes a lot of sense now, given the history you have just described.
The funeral of Queen Elizabeth today will be one of the most extraordinary public spectacles of the last several decades in Britain, accompanied by an outpouring of sadness, reverence and respect.
But the end of the queen’s 70-year reign has also prompted long-delayed conversations about the future of the Commonwealth and of the four nations that make up the United Kingdom.
Guest: Mark Landler, the London bureau chief for The New York Times.
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