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Sharp n’ Blunt

Does Republican TEA Party Presidential Nominee, Mitt Romney, Know the Price of a Loaf of Bread?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Wheat, white or dark rye…? For Romney, it’s truly “Wonder Bread.” I’ll wager you Romney’s customary bet; ten thousand bucks, no less, that honestly speaking – and not merely for the dramatics of the moment – this 65-year-old “Ken” doll has no legitimate clue what a “Happy Meal” costs. He has no inkling what it…

Wheat, white or dark rye...? For Romney, it’s truly “Wonder Bread.” I’ll wager you Romney’s customary bet; ten thousand bucks, no less, that honestly speaking -…

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Dirty, Nasty and Very, Very Funky

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Hang-on, because those words best describe and summarize the �situation� into which we find the American political arena regressing: �King of the Birthers,� Donald, the Trump and Mitt Romney pitted against the President of these alleged United States Of America – Barry �the half-breeded Manchurian boy who would dare be king� Obama and Reverend Jeremiah…

Hang-on, because those words best describe and summarize the �situation� into which we find the American political arena regressing: �King of the Birthers,� Donald, the Trump…

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Help! Help! Save Us! Help! The Black people are going to eat us!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The American landscape is starting to horrifically resemble a 1958 black n� white Godzilla flick…with Black folks filling the lead role of the prehistoric monster come-to-life, and TEA Partying White folks playing to the over-the-top hilt, the victimized role of the Japanese folks…running around in absolute terror as the tyrannical creature is about to devour…

The American landscape is starting to horrifically resemble a 1958 black n� white Godzilla flick...with Black folks filling the lead role of the prehistoric monster come-to-life,…

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Tulsa, 2012 – When Push Came to Shove

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Might it be horrifically appropriate that Tulsa, Oklahoma be the time n� place where White folks went �retro,� reverting back to the vicious and cowardly cold-blooded barbarians US history can�t help but paint n� taint them as… The Killing Season may be upon us. I could use this opportunity here at BlackCommentator.com to discuss a…

Might it be horrifically appropriate that Tulsa, Oklahoma be the time n� place where White folks went �retro,� reverting back to the vicious and cowardly cold-blooded…

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Open Season on Ni**ers

By Desi Cortez Columnist

No one, not even angry White folks, can tell me there�s no effort by Black folks to halt the murders of Black boys by Black men, nonetheless we face millions of Black boys who were born into a contrived, make-believe world where they�ve been painted n� tainted by the White majority as inherently inferior, as…

No one, not even angry White folks, can tell me there�s no effort by Black folks to halt the murders of Black boys by Black men,…

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If Black Folks Leave Tomorrow, White America Won’t Shead A Tear

By Desi Cortez Columnist

I�ve been Black all my life, so with that in mind, I can say to you with all the confidence and conviction in this here world that I know, deep down in my heart, my bat-senses, my spider senses tell me – if ever Oprah, Bill Cosby, Jay-Z concoct any collection of �hi n� all-so-very…

I�ve been Black all my life, so with that in mind, I can say to you with all the confidence and conviction in this here world…

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Limbaugh Must Go Down

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Need I say more? Probably not, but I do need a few white folks to �interpret� exactly what these remarks are. Clean it up a little… tell me what the fat hooded-one really meant. Better yet, I�ll need Clarence Thomas, Michael Steel or Allen West – all who obviously speak fluent �Redneck� to decipher these…

Need I say more? Probably not, but I do need a few white folks to �interpret� exactly what these remarks are. Clean it up a little...…

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Black is Beautiful, Despite What White Folks Say

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Yesterday, my late grandmother and mother had to live with it, today my wife and sisters – all Afro-American women – still must endure the disrespectful, scornfully abusive, and need I say, so very contemptible as to be offensive comments which endlessly seem to �percolate� out of many White people�s mouths. Over a century of…

Yesterday, my late grandmother and mother had to live with it, today my wife and sisters - all Afro-American women - still must endure the disrespectful,…

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A Divided Black America Cannot Stand

By Desi Cortez Columnist

You may not dig this, but dig this – in Malcolm�s words: I�m not here tonight to discuss my religion. I�m not here to try and change your religion. I�m not here to argue or discuss anything that we differ about, because it�s time for us to submerge our differences and realize that it is…

You may not dig this, but dig this - in Malcolm�s words: I�m not here tonight to discuss my religion. I�m not here to try and…

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Driving Governor Brewer

By Desi Cortez Columnist

There was a time in this country when, had OJ Simpson been found guilty of murdering his White ex-wife, despite White society branding her as a tarnished women, an i.e., Nigger Love, OJ would�ve been dragged out of his jail cell, castrated, and hanged at sunset. And I don�t believe that�s an exaggeration, hanged by…

There was a time in this country when, had OJ Simpson been found guilty of murdering his White ex-wife, despite White society branding her as a…

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