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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

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Clarence Thomas: A Product of the Republican Plantation

By Desi Cortez Columnist

the Confederacy isn’t a long past geographical location. No, it’s a heartfelt and deeply embraced uncivilized value system and way of life which is alive and well across America.

To my people: Don’t be afraid to raise your fist and yell out “Black Power!” There’s just something inspiring about seeing a Black person, with a…

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Did They Snatch Trump’s Passport?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Overt rejection has left Trump a wounded creature; that appears obvious. My grade-school question is: did the judge yank his Passport?

Overt rejection has left Trump a wounded creature; that appears obvious. My grade-school question is: did the judge yank his Passport? Look, let’s be honest here,…

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Eating Ice Cream in the Middle of a Cultural Battlefield: Disneyland

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Despite the characters being animals, the racial connections, innuendos, and slights were embedded, if you were hip to the racist jive hidden in plain sight.

This Spring Break, I’ll be smack, dab in the middle of one of America’s most combustible cultural battlegrounds, Disneyland. Now check this out; it’s going to…

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Retribution From the Nation’s New KKK

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Based on what we’re witnessing, they’ll vote for a man who the Klan endorses - if that’s what it takes to maintain their stranglehold on security, prosperity, affluence, and personal contentment.

Racism, sexism, classism, and xenophobia have a new name, it’s Trumpism, and it’s neither here nor there if Ron DeSantis is the 2024 Grand Pooh-Bah nominee…

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What’s Wrong With Black American Baby Boomers?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

racist White folks hail from all corners and quarters of White America, of the world.

Is Black America tone-deaf, particularly the milk-soaked, soggy-behind aging like an 8-track player Coco Buff Baby Boomers? I believe the most accurate and descriptive term is…

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Mahomes and Hurts Are the Real Reasons Why White Folks Cling to Their Assault Rifles

By Desi Cortez Columnist

All categories of White America are alarmed at the insistence of Black folks not to accept some inferior, secondary support role in the story of America.

Mahomes and Hurts are among the real reasons why White Folks cling to their assault rifles. Both alpha-male gridiron “Signal Callers” represent and embody the cultural…

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Something Wicked This Way Comes… It’s Ron DeSantis

By Desi Cortez Columnist

a significant percentage, a weighty portion of the American population that supports him, is too racist, sexist, elitist, and xenophobic.

Let me tell you how it really is; Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is a racist, and he is playing to his racist base. That’s my educated…

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Mahomes, Hurts and Tyre Nichols; One Step Forward, Six and a Half Steps Backward

By Desi Cortez Columnist

If you follow this country’s national pastime, the male soap opera called the NFL, then you understand that two Black men as the starting “Signal Callers” is a monumental achievement in Black people’s struggle against White superiority and dominance in all matters, both large and small.

As an endangered breed, Black men have just experienced a long-time-coming moment in our story. ...and one giant step forward, six n' a half steps backward,…

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The Confederacy Lives On at Splash Mountain

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The ride and, to a lesser extent, the surrounding “Land of Dixie,” in essence, promoted the stereotypical glamorization of the American South post-civil war/“War of Northern Aggression” and sabotaged Reconstruction years as a place where “happiness” and contentment rule the land.

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah’... Say it loud, I’m Black, and I’m Proud! Disney, and no I don’t need to attach “Walt,” “land” or “world” to it because Disney is…

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