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Putin, Trump, and Will Smith: Power Corrupts; Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Individuals, and the organizations we build, and the nations we comprise, the institutions we construct which maintain our civilization are one and all “corruptible.” Thus, when power is accumulated, massed, and stockpiled - it tends to corrupt.

Ok, let’s walk n’ talk. Everything and everyone is “connected,” interwoven into the fabric of life. “Connections” and “relations” are everywhere, all around us. “Power” is…

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The Problems of 45 Million Little People

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Black America should place our internal and historical conflicts within this imperfect empire on the back burner and focus on voter turnout in the upcoming election season.

“The problems of 3 little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world…” Hollywood’s 1942 classic, Casablanca is my indisputable favorite movie,…

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In the Name of Democracy

By Desi Cortez Columnist

if Black Americans don’t make a united stand in the face of a racist, sexist, elitist, and overtly xenophobic White Nationalist movement, we’re going to find ourselves, our children, and unquestionably our children’s children facing a harder, crueler, meaner white-male-governed world.

If not for America’s half-hearted attempt at “democracy,” where would Black Americans be? Honestly, if not for Frederick Douglass, Booker T Washington, Mary Mcleod Bethune, A.…

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The NFL’s Brian Flores Just Committed Occupational Suicide

By Desi Cortez Columnist

sports seem to personify and illustrate, in vivid black and white, how extremely dysfunctional this nation is.

I’m one who believes the wildly popular Wide World of Sports we millions of sports fans follow tragically reflects our greater society by embodying virtually all…

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The “Good” White People Are Going To Fail Black America, Pathetically So…

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Kyrstan Sinema, supposedly from out west… will, along with allegedly another good white person, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, from kinda up North - will knowingly facilitate the fall of democracy by allowing the hard-earned “right” of voting to be strong armed away, stollen from millions.

The “good” white people, alas the NPR “Liberals” and the MSNBC “Progressives” are going to fail Black America, pathetically so. American Democracy is going past tense.…

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Peyton Manning Could Drag the NFL Out of the Stone Age and Into the 21st Century

By Desi Cortez Columnist

At some point in the story of the National Football League, the ebony gladiators who are the on-field product and labor force must be allowed to own at least some of a franchise.

Peyton Manning is the National Football League. He is the face, heart, mind, and soul of America’s national pastime, I’d submit, our national religion. Manning is…

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