God Save the Queen

God save the Queen! What does that even mean? No one knows what it means, but it’s provocative. It gets the people going. My educated bet of this beautiful song and phrase’s origin is in the opening line(s) of the Psalms of Dawid Chapter 71(72):

እግዚኦ ኵነኔከ ሀቦ ለንጉሥ (igzeeo kwnenéke habo le’nigus)

o lord, your judgment, grant to the king

or

give the king thy judgments, elohym, and thy righteousness unto the son of the king. he shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

This is the ultimate responsibility of any Christian or Jewish monarch. I have my own personal grievances with the Queen. She just returned us a lock of Emperor Téwodros’ hair, and the crown inconceivably still has a dead man’s grip on the remains of Prince Alemayehu Téwodros; my second-cousin, thrice removed (via my great-grandfather right (flank) campaign-commander welde’silasé reta)…

Nevertheless, from what I hear from everyone, except the anti-colonial homies with deep-seated and instinctual distrust of and displeasure with anyone and anything royal and monarchical, she’s aight. Even Elizabeth II, who Uncle Yarvin reminds us frequently ain’t no Elizabeth I; from whom we get Elizabethan England and Elizabethan sonnets. And this feeling is fine in a ferenj, or an Ethiopian totally uninterested in Ethiopia. But it has nothing to do with being an Ethiopian or an Ethiopianist. Which I assure you is even more cerebral than Being John Malkovich. And the starting point and end point of my Pan-Africanism.

Be they ceremonial, or even better functional, an Ethiopian is a stan of the monarch. An Ethiopian, worth their weight in salt, is not a Marxist-Leninist. An Ethiopian is not a Federal-Democrat. An Ethiopian is a monarchist. And monarchists are friends with monarchists, as oligarchs are friends with oligarchs, and democrats are friends with democrats. I repeat myself.

The alliance of Emperor Hayle’Silasé with the Anglo-American empire can be critiqued as the very thing that undid our well-known 3,000 year history. Indoctrinating our youth with the contagion of democracy, in foreign occupied domestically located schools. See Aleqa Asres. Abandoning our indigenous Justice of Kings, for constitutions written with our arm getting twisted from the rear by foreign rulers. I’m open to this line of argumentation. Lij Eeyasu may have aligned us with explicitly absolute monarchs (‘oriental despots’) instead of a ceremonial one. But these are arguments from the right.

Unless you are making these arguments, please remember the recently reposed Queen Elizabeth II of Britannia, in your holy prayers. Long live King Charles III. Perhaps the Americas will get a Stuart. And perhaps the Horn of Africa will get a Solominid…

Pray ye.