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“Patriotism is the Last Final Refuge of Scoundrels…” and Republicans!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The “Right” has successfully anointed themselves the lone, last Red, White n’ Blue bastion of true, genuine, authentic frontier patriots who love their country.

There’s little, if any, surprise that America’s aging, withering, nonetheless entrenched, WASP establishment is looking for a “Trojan Horse” - some form of camouflage in which…

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Rush Limbaugh . . .President Of White America

By Desi Cortez Columnist

White Wall Street, White Main Street don’t give a damn about the boulevards of broken American Dreams.

Who Really Speaks for “White America?” Well wait, before we determine “who” - there’re those White folks who’ll hysterically contend there’s but “one America... indivisible, with…

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The Dangerous Ghetto Hustler

By Desi Cortez Columnist

And because I had been a hustler, I knew better than all whites knew, and better than nearly all of the black 'leaders' knew, that actually the most dangerous black man in America was the ghetto hustler.

All My life, all my entire life I’ve heard this phrase recited over and over and over again in regards to the critical condition, predicament, whatever-in-the-hell…

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Angry White Folks Need Guns to Protect Themselves from Americans of Color

By Desi Cortez Columnist

the rank n’ file Republican TEA Party “Patriots” have maintained a healthy fear of the US government turning on them so that they will need their weapons to protect themselves from their own government, specifically Federal Troops.

The gun argument is based on a few simple premises... let’s put these “gun nuts” in a nutshell, shall we? The “Patriot” wing of the GOP…

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This is What Black Power Looks Like

By Desi Cortez Columnist

the highly exalted position of US President, for even a once but no longer United States of America, and the position of “NFL Quarterback” are two of the most prominent positions within American society and culture.

A picture, but especially this Kodak Moment is worth thousands-upon-thousands of words, yet the two words I think of are... “Black Power.” Forgive me... by no…

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For Republican TEA Party House Negroes the Kitchen is Gettin’ Kinda’ Hot

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Here’s the question: with the hallowed 1965 Voting Rights Act on this Supreme Court’s chopping block. Hangman Antonin Scalia spits on the graves of heroes such as Dr. King, Fannie Lou, Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner… Will these attempts to “go back in time” serve as a 3:37-in-the-AM-wake-your-ass-up-call for Americans of color? Now please note, that’s…

Here’s the question: with the hallowed 1965 Voting Rights Act on this Supreme Court’s chopping block. Hangman Antonin Scalia spits on the graves of heroes such…

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Chris Brown and Rihanna… Their Ultra-Dysfunctional “Relationship” is Precisely What’s Wrong with Black America

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Yes, I know there’s dysfunctionalism across White America, however that’s irrelevant and meaningless to the plight of Black folks; if White folks, collectively, have got a cold or some perhaps even the flu, we Black folks must have Cancer, Tuberculosis, Polio, Leprosy. I know, I know, I know, the poster boy n’ girl are “Black…

Yes, I know there’s dysfunctionalism across White America, however that’s irrelevant and meaningless to the plight of Black folks; if White folks, collectively, have got a…

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Just Ask That Elephant with Lipstick a Few Questions

By Desi Cortez Columnist

There are those few combustible topics within society which, in all actuality are Litmus tests, inquiries which determine “who and what” we are. So when I say “Republican,” most people envision a somewhat racist, sexist and elitist White guy, no? The everyday, run-of-the-mill, rank n’ file Republican despises President Obama, believes his “little lady” is…

There are those few combustible topics within society which, in all actuality are Litmus tests, inquiries which determine “who and what” we are. So when I…

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Tyranny and Thugs

By Desi Cortez Columnist

What’s the “color,” and who’s the face of both tyrannical tyranny and treacherous thuggery in America? A Black man. Believe it. Despite the extreme contrast, yes, Black men sit, simultaneously at both ends of the spectrum Interesting indeed. President Obama, according to the reactionary Rednecks, is little more than a power hungry Commie/Pinko/Marxist/militant Black Nationalist…

What’s the “color,” and who’s the face of both tyrannical tyranny and treacherous thuggery in America? A Black man. Believe it. Despite the extreme contrast, yes,…

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Django Unchained: A Look At Yesteryear To Better Understand Today?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Django Unchained will both entertain and enlightenDjango Unchained… despite what the Blacker-than-Black “Black Puritans” are moaning about, is a movie that elicits the wrath of Rednecks like Sean Hannity, AM Hate Radio and the FOX News pundits… and any movie that achieves that alone is a “cinematic masterpiece” in my e-book. Like Spike’s joint Malcolm…

Django Unchained will both entertain and enlightenDjango Unchained... despite what the Blacker-than-Black “Black Puritans” are moaning about, is a movie that elicits the wrath of Rednecks…

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