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Retribution From the Nation’s New KKK

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Based on what we’re witnessing, they’ll vote for a man who the Klan endorses - if that’s what it takes to maintain their stranglehold on security, prosperity, affluence, and personal contentment.

Racism, sexism, classism, and xenophobia have a new name, it’s Trumpism, and it’s neither here nor there if Ron DeSantis is the 2024 Grand Pooh-Bah nominee…

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What’s Wrong With Black American Baby Boomers?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

racist White folks hail from all corners and quarters of White America, of the world.

Is Black America tone-deaf, particularly the milk-soaked, soggy-behind aging like an 8-track player Coco Buff Baby Boomers? I believe the most accurate and descriptive term is…

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Mahomes and Hurts Are the Real Reasons Why White Folks Cling to Their Assault Rifles

By Desi Cortez Columnist

All categories of White America are alarmed at the insistence of Black folks not to accept some inferior, secondary support role in the story of America.

Mahomes and Hurts are among the real reasons why White Folks cling to their assault rifles. Both alpha-male gridiron “Signal Callers” represent and embody the cultural…

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Something Wicked This Way Comes… It’s Ron DeSantis

By Desi Cortez Columnist

a significant percentage, a weighty portion of the American population that supports him, is too racist, sexist, elitist, and xenophobic.

Let me tell you how it really is; Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is a racist, and he is playing to his racist base. That’s my educated…

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Mahomes, Hurts and Tyre Nichols; One Step Forward, Six and a Half Steps Backward

By Desi Cortez Columnist

If you follow this country’s national pastime, the male soap opera called the NFL, then you understand that two Black men as the starting “Signal Callers” is a monumental achievement in Black people’s struggle against White superiority and dominance in all matters, both large and small.

As an endangered breed, Black men have just experienced a long-time-coming moment in our story. ...and one giant step forward, six n' a half steps backward,…

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The Confederacy Lives On at Splash Mountain

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The ride and, to a lesser extent, the surrounding “Land of Dixie,” in essence, promoted the stereotypical glamorization of the American South post-civil war/“War of Northern Aggression” and sabotaged Reconstruction years as a place where “happiness” and contentment rule the land.

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah’... Say it loud, I’m Black, and I’m Proud! Disney, and no I don’t need to attach “Walt,” “land” or “world” to it because Disney is…

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The Greatest Miscalculation Black Folks Have Made: Placing Our Children’s Education in the Hands of White Folks

By Desi Cortez Columnist

my daughter is considering Black Colleges, and I have the hesitation and reservations I believe I ought to have: The social scene will be wonderful, and she’ll be in an environment crafted and molded for young Black people.

Wordsmith, verbal architect, expressionist, writer, people tell me that’s what I am. I try to articulate my viewpoint and express my opinion on a vast array…

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The Rigged Supreme Court

By Desi Cortez Columnist

America’s xenophobic 4th Reich will not concede to tolerance, logic, or decency. What they desire is absolute domination and control of all society.

As we breathe, the Supreme Court’s contrived and concocted conservative bloc sits unquestionably sympathetic to a Colorado graphic designer who argues a state law prohibiting discrimination…

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White Men Would Rather Be Feared Than Either Loved or Respected and That’s the Problem

By Desi Cortez Columnist

They believed Americans of color would go quietly into the good night - punked, scared, and intimidated by their bully moves. But we didn’t, we showed up!

We’re not even a month removed from the midterm elections, and it’s undeniable the Republican Party of the 21st century is a clear and present danger…

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Countdown to Doomsday

By Desi Cortez Columnist

I go to bed on the eve of the end of America with that vision of a chaotic America on the horizon and on my mind. Good God.

Monday evening, November 7th, “Countdown to Doomsday.” Perhaps the last “full day” in the life of America as we’ve come to know it. I’m left to…

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