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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

The Greatest Miscalculation Black Folks Have Made: Placing Our Children’s Education in the Hands of White Folks

By Desi Cortez Columnist

my daughter is considering Black Colleges, and I have the hesitation and reservations I believe I ought to have: The social scene will be wonderful, and she’ll be in an environment crafted and molded for young Black people.

Wordsmith, verbal architect, expressionist, writer, people tell me that’s what I am. I try to articulate my viewpoint and express my opinion on a vast array…

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The Rigged Supreme Court

By Desi Cortez Columnist

America’s xenophobic 4th Reich will not concede to tolerance, logic, or decency. What they desire is absolute domination and control of all society.

As we breathe, the Supreme Court’s contrived and concocted conservative bloc sits unquestionably sympathetic to a Colorado graphic designer who argues a state law prohibiting discrimination…

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White Men Would Rather Be Feared Than Either Loved or Respected and That’s the Problem

By Desi Cortez Columnist

They believed Americans of color would go quietly into the good night - punked, scared, and intimidated by their bully moves. But we didn’t, we showed up!

We’re not even a month removed from the midterm elections, and it’s undeniable the Republican Party of the 21st century is a clear and present danger…

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Countdown to Doomsday

By Desi Cortez Columnist

I go to bed on the eve of the end of America with that vision of a chaotic America on the horizon and on my mind. Good God.

Monday evening, November 7th, “Countdown to Doomsday.” Perhaps the last “full day” in the life of America as we’ve come to know it. I’m left to…

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Why Is the Entrenched American WASP Establishment Refusing to Re-Invest in the Bare Infrastructural Necessities This Nation Demands?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

We could address these issues, but the brain trust and the cats who hold the purse strings, the wallet, couldn’t give a you-know-what.

In this long disunited America, we are not our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers. How does the world’s self-proclaimed “most advanced” form of civilization get to the…

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The Irreconcilable Differences Between WASP America and Americans of Color

By Desi Cortez Columnist

When I see people of color all wrapped up in this nonsensical fairy tale, it speaks to our mis-education, our unawareness of global history, or just perhaps our self-hatred.

The irreconcilable differences between WASP/White Anglo-Saxon America and“Americans of Color” were never more evident and prominent as they were with the passing of Great Britain’s Queen…

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Does King Trump Have the Power To Unleash White America Upon…Everybody?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

How far are Trump’s troops willing to go to save America from true liberty and equality?

Semi Fascist…?” Good ol’ Joe Biden didn’t go nearly far enough when definingTrump’s cult. I think we all agree that you can take off the “Semi.”…

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Right Wing White America and Our Fragile Example of Democracy

By Desi Cortez Columnist

I’m gonna’ try to reignite my fire and rekindle my passion, but I just don’t have much faith in people.

My pops died years ago. I have a micro circle of friends, a pretty good list of acquaintances who I honestly don’t regard as friends -…

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The Vultures Are Coming Home To Roost

By Desi Cortez Columnist

the bad karma this nation has mass-produced around the globe and within its borders has come back to haunt the country.

1963 America, US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy nearly had his head blown off in Dallas, Texas, then a welcoming southwestern home to the Neo Confederacy: some…

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