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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

White Nationalism, Global Wasp Supremacy and Cold-Cash “Trump” Good Ol’ Fashioned American Patriotism

By Desi Cortez Columnist

most White folks believe the Founding Fathers never had any intentions of creating this land for “you people” and today in 2017 they still concur with that primitive, colonial mentality.

2017 is going to be the year of “stand-up, or be rolled-over” for black Americans, and for that matter most Americans of color. We’re about to…

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Rise n’ Shine Negroes, It’s An Older, Whiter, Bleaker Day in America

By Desi Cortez Columnist

All the “live Facebooking,” “tweets” and “retweets” damning and condemning their barbaric actions as deplorable is not going to stop them. They want their country back, and all the horrendous acts and despicable deeds they employed to construct this empire . . . they’re willing to use them again to get it back, and keep it.

Sinclair Lewis said something along the lines of “When fascism comes to America, it’ll be wrapped in “Ol glory” and dragging Jesus’ cross . . .”…

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This land is your land – this land is my land . . . . BS

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The whimsical idea that the good ol’ USofA is a “shining city on the hill,” welcoming all exiles from around the globe , that we are good, decent, progressive-minded people is wrong and inaccurate; America is now today none of those things.

As an Afro-American, raised mostly in a large diverse city, Los Angeles, but moved to suburban Denver in the late 1970's at age 14, thus immersed…

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Standoff at Standing Rock: Trump Speaks with Forked Tongue

By Desi Cortez Columnist

They’re “elitists” who are trying to ram this pipeline down the throats of a proud and noble people who have fought European genocide efforts for half a millennium.

It’s no shock most Americans of color find the hallowed words of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights to be mighty,…

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We Don’t Know White People Very Well, Do We?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Trump and Vice President Mike Pence tactically refused to distance themselves from the robed good ol’ boys and that loyalty endeared them to the . . . millions and millions . . . and millions of Rednecks and Crackers tired of hiding in plain sight.

What time is it?! Over the next 175 days, commencing circa “right now” on through to inauguration day and beyond - the initial 100 day run…

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The “Colored Only” and “No Dogs/Mexicans Or Jews Allowed” Signs Are Being Dusted Off!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Donald Trump has succeeded in 'making America White again,' now exactly what that means, what all that entails . . . who the hell knows. What we do know is; the angry White backlash has slapped the Black out of the White House . . . pun intended.

As much as I knew this sobering Presidential outcome was inevitable . . . I’m at an unprecedented loss of words, because just as I saw…

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Dear Lord, Deliver Us From Evil (Donald Trump)

By Desi Cortez Columnist

I submit, for Donald Trump to be rejected, denounced and shunned by “most” of White America, they’d have to have a collective conscience, and I’d argue even half-a-century later - they’ve no conscience.

Evil . . . profoundly immoral and malevolent - additional synonyms: wicked, bad, wrong, immoral, sinful, foul, vile, dishonorable, corrupt, iniquitous, depraved, reprobate, villainous, nefarious, vicious,…

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How Can Americans of Color Ever “Trust” White Folks Again?”

By Desi Cortez Columnist

There’s a justifiable fear as-to what deplorable depths the angry WASP population will drag this nation down into. What is America, the land of the free, home of the brave going to transform/regress into?

I’m asking all Americans of color, be you Black, Brown, Red or Yellow, along with American Muslims of all colors and even independent minded, enlightened White…

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Trump’s Black Political Hoes Need Their Weaves Yanked Off

By Desi Cortez Columnist

We, as Black-Americans must hold ourselves to some measure of righteousness, by holding these more-than-willing political pawns be held to some measure of accountability, answer ability and liability for the treasonous act of offering Trump shelter from incoming truths and providing . . . for a price, shade, cover and camouflage.

And here I thought “Condi” Rice, Armstrong Williams, Reverend Jesse Peters and Herman Cain were the personifications of ONGP (Official Negro Governmental Prostitutes.”) I believed Condi…

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