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Columnist

Desi Cortez

BlackCommentator.com Columnist, DesiCortez: Born in Alabama’s contradictions, forged in South-Central L.A., rooted in Denver at fifteen—Desi Cortez cuts with a blunt edge: columnist (BlackCommentator, BlackAthlete, NegusWhoRead), KOA firebrand, Rocky Mountain News board voice, 24-year public-school realist. He writes like he lives—through the noise with razor truths on race, politics, and sport. Contact Mr. Cortez and BC.

369 pieces

Sharp n’ Blunt

To What Sinister Depths Will MAGA Go?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

They want to be able to purchase, online from Sam’s Club, personal tanks for home protection.

Today it’s arming teachers in Tennessee and banning abortions, nationwide; only God knows what’s next, or how far their meanness will go. Black people to the…

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OJ and Trump… The Enemy of My Enemy… Is My Friend

By Desi Cortez Columnist

It is so graphically and dramatically illustrated, in stark black and white - that we see the world around us in extremely contrasting ways.

Mainstream White America loves Trump, and still hates OJ - both those two facts speak World Book Encyclopedia volumes about this empire. The love for Trump…

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US Civil War II – Unfinished Business

By Desi Cortez Columnist

In the darkest recesses of American history, these ideas have lingered like malevolent ghosts, haunting the very soul of America.

John C Calhoun, Andrew Jackson’s vice president, once argued that enslaved people benefited from the institution “physically, morally, and intellectually.” He stated that “Liberty” was “a…

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Shame on Diabolical Turncoats

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Black people, have an abundance, a treasure trove of evidence to convict these sellouts of “treason” - in the first degree.

“Hello, is this MAGA headquarters? Someone has stolen the Clarence the Lawn Jockey statue from the Devil’s palatial Lake of Fire Estate and he wants his…

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“Bloodbath” – Latest Trash Coming out of Trump’s Mouth

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Far too many White men struggle with the notion that people of color and women are their human equivalents, they just simply do not believe it.

This threat/promise emerged from a dark speech the wanna be Hitler, Donald Trump, gave in which he warned he would place high tariffs on automotive imports…

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Salvaging America

By Desi Cortez Columnist

I’ve been hoping and praying that the Democratic Party’s brain trust, that roundtable of liberals, wilting Flower Children, Hippies with hip replacements, Progressives, Revolutionaries, and Dixiecrats wake up and realize the clocks are about to strike midnight.

No gallant 7th cavalry charges forth to rescue American Democracy, no grand commission, no exhaustive report, not the Supreme Court – not even the iconic Captain…

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The Orange King on Day One

By Desi Cortez Columnist

If, by some twist of fate, Trump claims the Oval Office, God bless us all. Yet, if he is denied, God help us. Either way, he’ll unleash a legion of fervent White hate, primed for a diabolical uprising.

I hate to interrupt Black History Month, but Satan called; he wants his brother Donald back! Straight from that jackass’ Trump’s mouth: “Your victory will be…

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Black History Month – The Super Bowl and Black History

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The pigskin extravaganza encompasses everything MAGA fears; Racial and cultural diversity, racial and gender inclusion, open competition, played on a fair and balanced playing field.

Black History Month is the appropriate time to showcase the impact and influence of Black people on American culture. Here in February, Patrick Mahomes may win…

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The MAGA Crowd Longs for a Strong Powerful White Man To Rule the Country With an Iron Fist

By Desi Cortez Columnist

MAGA yearns to reclaim their nation and its cherished pastimes and make them both Alpine snow White again.

America’s national pastimes, “Sports,” reflect and embody all of America’s broad societal ills and woes. With that noted, It’s “interesting” to observe Trump’s cult, which is…

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