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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

Brown v Board of Education, Plessy v Ferguson – On the Chopping Block! And of Course, Black America Is Shocked!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

soon they’ll want to rehang the “NO Negroes/No Mexicans/No Jews & No Dogs” signs over restaurants, hotels, grocery stores, malls, the whole gamut - and here sits my generation of assimilating and accommodating pawns befuddled, bewildered and dazed.

I have spent the last few decades trying to convince my friends and relatives, who are vastly Black folk, that “Mainstream USA,” i.e., “Mainstream” White America,…

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The Day They Arrest Donald Trump or the Day They Re-Elect Donald Trump

By Desi Cortez Columnist

With Trump in either the White House or the Big House, the potential for Mainstream USA to go Stone Age neanderthal is profound because their entrenched audacious White power and privilege will be at stake.

In light of the January 6th hearings, and what its repulsive revelations may bring about, there are two days I’m “worried” about. Ok, I’m concerned about…

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In America, Little White Boys Want To Be the Devil and Little Black Boys Want To Be Tony “Scarface” Montana … That’s the Voodoo Chili We’re Stirring

By Desi Cortez Columnist

toss into the voodoo chili the obvious - there’s just not enough love for each other in America.

America’s now home to a few generations who, for all intents and purposes, were raised by wolves…. “Traditional” families have been marginalized and trivialized and in…

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Crimes Against Humanity That Should Disgrace Any Nation

By Desi Cortez Columnist

There are vast insidious members, segments, and slices of the White race that haven’t grown, matured, progressed or evolved to the point of being “civilized.”

Embolden: give courage to, make brave/braver, encourage, hearten, strengthen, - stiffen the resolve of, lift the morale of, rouse, stir, stimulate, cheer, rally, give confidence, brace,…

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Democrats Had Better Get Unified

By Desi Cortez Columnist

We have a common political foe, a common exploiter and oppressor to confront and defeat.

America is unquestionably a politically divided nation, but the split doesn’t stop at Left and Right nor at Liberal versus Conservative. Instead, the divide is much…

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Putin, Trump, and Will Smith: Power Corrupts; Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Individuals, and the organizations we build, and the nations we comprise, the institutions we construct which maintain our civilization are one and all “corruptible.” Thus, when power is accumulated, massed, and stockpiled - it tends to corrupt.

Ok, let’s walk n’ talk. Everything and everyone is “connected,” interwoven into the fabric of life. “Connections” and “relations” are everywhere, all around us. “Power” is…

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