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By Nelson A. King
Even as he battles for this
life with bone cancer, an ailing,
prominent Caribbean-born
journalist in the United States,
renowned as a “freedom fighter”,
has strongly condemned the
policies of US President Donald
J. Trump that are often referred
to as “Trumpism.”
In addressing a fundraiser in
his honor, at the House of Lord
Church, downtown Brooklyn, to
help offset gigantic medical bills,
Vincentian-born Don Rojas,
press secretary for slain Grenadian
Prime Minister, Maurice
Bishop, said there is “a Titanic
struggle between those who are
ready to boldly step into the
future, to shape human society
into one where truly democratic
principles and practices prevail
and those, here in the Western
Hemisphere, who have been
duped by the lies and tricks of
a toxic social disease we call
‘Trumpism,’ a political and cultural
phenomenon rooted in a
sordid mix of white supremacist
ideologies, manufactured lies,
fake news and corrupt opportunism.”
Rojas, the director of communications
and international
relations for the New York-based
black group, Institute of the
Black World 21st Century (IBW),
said “this phenomenon is bent
on cowardly turning back the
hands of time to ‘Make America
Great Again’ through the exercise
of wanton dictatorial control
over all the organs of the
capitalist state.”
“Make America Great Again”
was Trump’s campaign slogan.
“Trump’s fixation with reversing
whatever legacy President
Barack Obama left a couple years
ago borders on the pathological
and is profoundly racist,” added
Rojas, the former senior advisor
for strategic communications
to Professor Sir Hilary Beckles,
Vice Chancellor of the University
of the West Indies (UWI).
Rojas – who developed,
launched and managed UWI-TV,
the university’s cable TV and
Internet channel, just before his
affliction with cancer – said that
while patrons support his own
fight against the deadly disease,
“there is a much more dangerous
social cancer that needs our
urgent collective attention.”
“This social cancer of Trumpism
has metastasized and has
infected every organ of the
American body politic,” he said.
“Trumpism is the great white
supremacy experiment of the
21st Century and its basic playbook
is the warped ideology of
fascism as was attempted in
the 20th Century by Hitler in
Germany, Mussolini in France,
Franco in Spain, Batista in
Cuba and other so-called ‘strong
men.’
“I’m not trying to be alarmist,
folks, but fascism is once
again on the march not only in
Europe but also throughout the
Americas – from Washington,
D.C. to Brazil, to Chile, to Argentina
and other Latin countries –
and making serious inroads into
respectable institutions inside
the U.S.A.,” he warned.