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Why Is the Entrenched American WASP Establishment Refusing to Re-Invest in the Bare Infrastructural Necessities This Nation Demands?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

We could address these issues, but the brain trust and the cats who hold the purse strings, the wallet, couldn’t give a you-know-what.

In this long disunited America, we are not our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers. How does the world’s self-proclaimed “most advanced” form of civilization get to the…

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The Irreconcilable Differences Between WASP America and Americans of Color

By Desi Cortez Columnist

When I see people of color all wrapped up in this nonsensical fairy tale, it speaks to our mis-education, our unawareness of global history, or just perhaps our self-hatred.

The irreconcilable differences between WASP/White Anglo-Saxon America and“Americans of Color” were never more evident and prominent as they were with the passing of Great Britain’s Queen…

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Does King Trump Have the Power To Unleash White America Upon…Everybody?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

How far are Trump’s troops willing to go to save America from true liberty and equality?

Semi Fascist…?” Good ol’ Joe Biden didn’t go nearly far enough when definingTrump’s cult. I think we all agree that you can take off the “Semi.”…

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Right Wing White America and Our Fragile Example of Democracy

By Desi Cortez Columnist

I’m gonna’ try to reignite my fire and rekindle my passion, but I just don’t have much faith in people.

My pops died years ago. I have a micro circle of friends, a pretty good list of acquaintances who I honestly don’t regard as friends -…

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The Vultures Are Coming Home To Roost

By Desi Cortez Columnist

the bad karma this nation has mass-produced around the globe and within its borders has come back to haunt the country.

1963 America, US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy nearly had his head blown off in Dallas, Texas, then a welcoming southwestern home to the Neo Confederacy: some…

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Brown v Board of Education, Plessy v Ferguson – On the Chopping Block! And of Course, Black America Is Shocked!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

soon they’ll want to rehang the “NO Negroes/No Mexicans/No Jews & No Dogs” signs over restaurants, hotels, grocery stores, malls, the whole gamut - and here sits my generation of assimilating and accommodating pawns befuddled, bewildered and dazed.

I have spent the last few decades trying to convince my friends and relatives, who are vastly Black folk, that “Mainstream USA,” i.e., “Mainstream” White America,…

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The Day They Arrest Donald Trump or the Day They Re-Elect Donald Trump

By Desi Cortez Columnist

With Trump in either the White House or the Big House, the potential for Mainstream USA to go Stone Age neanderthal is profound because their entrenched audacious White power and privilege will be at stake.

In light of the January 6th hearings, and what its repulsive revelations may bring about, there are two days I’m “worried” about. Ok, I’m concerned about…

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In America, Little White Boys Want To Be the Devil and Little Black Boys Want To Be Tony “Scarface” Montana … That’s the Voodoo Chili We’re Stirring

By Desi Cortez Columnist

toss into the voodoo chili the obvious - there’s just not enough love for each other in America.

America’s now home to a few generations who, for all intents and purposes, were raised by wolves…. “Traditional” families have been marginalized and trivialized and in…

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Crimes Against Humanity That Should Disgrace Any Nation

By Desi Cortez Columnist

There are vast insidious members, segments, and slices of the White race that haven’t grown, matured, progressed or evolved to the point of being “civilized.”

Embolden: give courage to, make brave/braver, encourage, hearten, strengthen, - stiffen the resolve of, lift the morale of, rouse, stir, stimulate, cheer, rally, give confidence, brace,…

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Democrats Had Better Get Unified

By Desi Cortez Columnist

We have a common political foe, a common exploiter and oppressor to confront and defeat.

America is unquestionably a politically divided nation, but the split doesn’t stop at Left and Right nor at Liberal versus Conservative. Instead, the divide is much…

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