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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 Problems of 45 Million Little People

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Black America should place our internal and historical conflicts within this imperfect empire on the back burner and focus on voter turnout in the upcoming election season.

“The problems of 3 little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world…” Hollywood’s 1942 classic, Casablanca is my indisputable favorite movie,…

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In the Name of Democracy

By Desi Cortez Columnist

if Black Americans don’t make a united stand in the face of a racist, sexist, elitist, and overtly xenophobic White Nationalist movement, we’re going to find ourselves, our children, and unquestionably our children’s children facing a harder, crueler, meaner white-male-governed world.

If not for America’s half-hearted attempt at “democracy,” where would Black Americans be? Honestly, if not for Frederick Douglass, Booker T Washington, Mary Mcleod Bethune, A.…

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The NFL’s Brian Flores Just Committed Occupational Suicide

By Desi Cortez Columnist

sports seem to personify and illustrate, in vivid black and white, how extremely dysfunctional this nation is.

I’m one who believes the wildly popular Wide World of Sports we millions of sports fans follow tragically reflects our greater society by embodying virtually all…

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The “Good” White People Are Going To Fail Black America, Pathetically So…

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Kyrstan Sinema, supposedly from out west… will, along with allegedly another good white person, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, from kinda up North - will knowingly facilitate the fall of democracy by allowing the hard-earned “right” of voting to be strong armed away, stollen from millions.

The “good” white people, alas the NPR “Liberals” and the MSNBC “Progressives” are going to fail Black America, pathetically so. American Democracy is going past tense.…

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Peyton Manning Could Drag the NFL Out of the Stone Age and Into the 21st Century

By Desi Cortez Columnist

At some point in the story of the National Football League, the ebony gladiators who are the on-field product and labor force must be allowed to own at least some of a franchise.

Peyton Manning is the National Football League. He is the face, heart, mind, and soul of America’s national pastime, I’d submit, our national religion. Manning is…

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Black Women, White Men Are Coming for You. Next, It’ll Be Black Folk’s Freedom

By Desi Cortez Columnist

I wholeheartedly believe we are living in what will be the prelude to America’s second civil war.

After White men come for Black women, it’ll be Black folk’s hearts, souls, and freedom. Why? Because they want to! Controlling and dominating via cruel, nasty,…

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2022 the Year of the Ballot or the Bullet

By Desi Cortez Columnist

We’re living atop an absolute ball of confusion, in a totally fragmented land of open hostility and division.

I’d like to ask - what could be more motivation for Black, Latino, Asian, Native Americans, Women, mixed-race, liberal-minded Democracy appreciating people to vote than the…

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No Rights Which the White Man Is Bound To Respect

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The Confederacy isn’t a long-dead historical geo-location but a present-day contemporary coast-to-coast heartfelt mindset and mentality based on white supremacy and nationalism - and it is entrenched in the very fabric of European American culture.

Kyle Rittenhouse for President…?! It’s an awfully scary thought, imagining the “America '' that Trump’s 100 million-plus cult members most European Americans are wishing for. The…

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