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Intentionally Mean, Cruel and Nasty

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Same relative demented mindset, just a different “time n’ place.”

“Time travel” is still, sadly, considered far-fetched in the 21st century, however if you ever have a twisted, morbid desire to “see,” to “feel” to “witness”…

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Reparations for Both Black and Native Americans Are Long Overdue

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Unquestionably settlers, pioneers, and cowboys were the “bad” guys, while American Indians were the “good” guys – homeland security, the “little people” who got “shafted,” “screwed,” “used” and “left to die” by the diabolical forces of European Colonialism, so-called American Exceptionalism and the contrived notion of Manifest Destiny

We Americans-of-color need to have an epiphany, an edification, alas enlightenment. The 50,000 watt light needs to come on and “we” need to realize and agree…

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Those Who Have No Shame

By Desi Cortez Columnist

As this judicial circus continues it will become crystal clear that too many White Americans will jump-in-line supporting some contrived and pathetic company line that will attempt to rationalize, minimize and normalize via some quasi-intellectual gibberish the tortuous murder caught on video.

Behind those Smiling faces, ….no conscience. Somebody, somebody please go get The Undisputed Truths 45’ ”Smiling Faces” and play it loud, and play it a few…

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Republicans Will Never Put Down Their Guns Because of Their Paranoia

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Look, just based on US History 101, most White folks are, I believe justified to feel like “gee, golly winkers, if I had been treated like Black people - enslaved, and then for another 100 plus years treated as 4th class semi-citizens, I might be a little pissed and disgusted.”

Ponder this point if you will. What if you knew you, as an individual, the skin-color you just happened to be born with is obviously and…

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Progress, Is It Really Progress if a Cannibal Uses a Knife n’ Fork?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

they wanted your gold, oil and diamonds – but they don’t want you as a voting member of their society.

I’m sorry, but I’m not the least bit shocked, amazed nor blind-sided by Britain’s Royal family and their deep, twisted racism, fears and phobias surrounding skin-color,…

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The Republican Party Desperately Needs an Old Fashioned Exorcism

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The fact that seventy-four million people witnessed four years of overt racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, attacks on immigrants, corruption, and incompetence, but nevertheless voted for it to continue, indicates how deeply embedded the ideology of white supremacy is.

“What we got here is... a failure to communicate.” Today, Republicans speak in a form of genuine, authentic, frontier gibberish, to mask and camouflage their intolerable…

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Look in the Mirror America!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Well-seasoned 50-year-old Black coaches can’t get a head coaching job, yet White, unqualified 32-year-old boy geniuses are hired every year.

Sports, the games we play, the national pastimes, mirror our greater polarized society and offer a selfie of who and what we are – our “isms”…

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What Do Trump’s Supporters Really Want?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

If we’re not going to have noble and high-minded 21st century Obama-era racial inclusion and diversity... then what do they want instead?

What do the rank n’ file, the leadership and figureheads of Trump’s treasonous movement want? From Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, Confederate…

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What Would Make Trump’s America Happy?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

I suggest that when people tell and show you who and what they are, what they are made of and what they believe, well, then believe them.

I can only ponder what Trump’s people would do if they could wave a magic wand, twinkle their noses and have the country turn into the…

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Joker’s Wild! Joker’s Wild! Jack’s Outta’ the Box!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Trump isn’t going to prison or the poor house without kickin’ n’ screamin’... he’s more than willing to burn this divided house down, to stay in the White House and out of the “Big House.”

Lord Trump, as I pen this, is purging the Department of Defense and the FBI of men and women with any loyalty to anyone or anything…

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