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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

Where Will You Be on November 5th?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

where are you and your family going to be when the racist tidal wave strikes,

Do you have an exit strategy for you and your family? Underground urban bunker? Remote mountain cabin, or, at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, Phantom…

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Open Season On Black Americans Has Been Declared

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Only you can prevent democracy from going extinct.

Harvard President, Claudia Gay, out; Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, maybe next! They wanted Deion Sanders fired before he was hired; they wanted Whoppie silenced and…

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How Can Any American of Color Vote for Hitler Wannabe Donald Trump?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

This means people of color are going to have to step up and vote in unprecedented numbers.

Here we are, mid-week, and MSNBC and CNN are parroting my column from last week. Trump is a die-hard fan of Adolph Hitler, wants to be…

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Trump Visually Embodies Both the Hatred and the Arrogance of His MAGA Cult!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

He personifies what they want - audacious “you’re fired” authority. His attitude, his pompous personality, is White America.

Little Lord Donald Trump, being horribly “forced” to sit in a courtroom and answer probing questions he deems himself above answering. This must-see spectacle represents “unhinged”…

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The Toxic Glue That Holds White Supremacy Together

By Desi Cortez Columnist

This audacious power they seek to maintain is the primary motivating factor explaining why they won’t even entertain the notion of legitimate gun control.

Before you read further, keep in mind, that some of my dearest friends are Caucasians. Yet it’s my assertion that “White supremacy,” in the pursuit of…

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CU Is Black America’s Team, and It’s Surrounded by Contradictions

By Desi Cortez Columnist

it’s a disgraceful story of hypocrisy and racism at the heart of academia.

Conflicting thoughts can be true at the same time: the University of Colorado’s gridiron gladiators can be “Black America’s” team, even as their games are broadcast…

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Black America Will “Fiercely” Rally Behind Coach Prime Because We Know What Time It Is!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The colors of our diversity have faded into shades of anger and resentment, as we struggle to find merely “common” ground in a society that is tearing itself apart.

Black America will “fiercely” rally behind Coach Prime, for we are all too familiar with the harsh realities of “where” we are and “who” we are…

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Donald Trump Is a Flight Risk

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Look around - Lady Justice is a Black woman.

Donald Trump is absolutely a flight risk, a runaway hustler, in waiting. Donald Trump is a suspected flight risk and an imminent runaway, leaving in his…

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