This is the person Roosevelt Skerrit chose to associate with.
A so-called world leader who promoted content portraying a former President of the United States and the First Lady as apes in a racist music video. A man who depicted members of Congress and the Senate as zoo animals, and former White House staff as pigs. This is not accidental. This is a long, documented pattern of racist behavior.
This is the individual Roosevelt Skerrit decided to do business with, ignoring decades of racist remarks about Black people and so- called “shithole countries.” Ignoring the harm these words and images have caused to Black communities around the world.
This is the man Roosevelt Skerrit chose to bow to, to show loyalty to, while armed forces in America continue to kill innocent people in the streets. This is the man Roosevelt Skerrit thought was worth protecting, worth defending, worth standing beside.
And yes – by his silence and obedience, Roosevelt Skerrit made his choice clear.
You should be ashamed. Ashamed to be a Black man in power who chose comfort over courage. Ashamed to sit quietly at the feet of someone who openly disrespects Black people, while pretending this is leadership.
Unlike you,I will be damned before I bow to anyone – not out of fear, not out of greed, not out of shame. I am a strong, fearless Black woman, and I will not sell my dignity or my people for political survival.
You are embarrassing your children and the future they must carry with your name. History will remember who stood up, and who stayed silent to protect themselves. That silence will follow your legacy here in Dominica long after politics is over.
Dominica deserves better than leaders who kneel when they should stand.
And shame on the fake party leaders Thomson Fontaine, Bernard Hurtault, Joshua Francis who stay quiet. Shame on those who looked the other way while Roosevelt Skerrit tried to distance himself publicly from Donald Trump, yet continued to accept Trump’s deportees without question – while our own people are refused legal entry into the United States.
You cannot pretend neutrality while benefiting from association behind closed doors. You cannot deny the connection while accepting the consequences of it. Decades of CBI fraud have damaged Dominica’s credibility, and it is our people who pay the price, humiliated, restricted, and treated with suspicion abroad.
Your silence is not neutrality. It is complicity. You stayed quiet to protect your positions, your access, your political comfort, while our country’s reputation was sold off piece by piece.
History will not forget who spoke up, and it will not excuse those who stayed quiet when it mattered most.
