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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

Donald Trump . . . Merely White Trash With Money

By Desi Cortez Columnist

How can people of color be “blindsided” by what is quickly becoming a nation-wide “White backlash” for which Trump is the people’s champion. That’s White people’s champion. For everyone else who isn’t White - this is the beginning of a national nightmare.

“President Trump . . . .” It seems a multitude of Black Americans are “shocked” this hospitality and lodging hustler, who occasionally lives above a saloon/gambling…

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Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, not yours!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Ali was man of defiant action. By not going to Vietnam, to “strike” on demand, by not doing this bloody empire’s dirty work. Ali made it clear he wasn’t that quiet, humble, docile, mindless killing machine which attacks only when his massa instructs him to. Ali defiantly lived, demonstrated, and endured, as did Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, and Angela Davis - because he made a stand, a stand which has forever endeared Muhammad Ali to millions, and millions all around the world, to the four-corners of the globe.

Black folks owe this man, Muhammad Ali so much . . . never was so very much owed by so very many … to merely one…

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How Could Black Folks Abdicate Educating Our Children to White Missionaires?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

“If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself.

I’ve spent years in an urban “Black n’ Brown” school district, arguably the worst between LA and KC. Of course the schools are economically segregated and…

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You Black Folks Voting For Hillary, You’re Making A Monumental Mistake

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The Ol’ School Black “establishment” falling in-line behind HRC is because so-many, if not all are beholding-to the Clinton machine, and they want to stay-in the good favor of the entrenched political power structure. However their alignment with her doesn’t benefit us, the little Black n’ Brown people.

My folks raised-me-up to “tell the truth,” they didn’t say to worry too-much about folk’s soft Michael Jackson/Melissa Harris Perry type “cashmere” feelings in that pursuit…

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On the Behalf Of all Americans of Color,Thank you Mr Trump

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Trump's told the burning bush truth, at least the Euro-American’s version of current affairs, and I thank him for that honesty, be it based in arrogance or ignorance.

On the behalf of all Americans of color, every single one of us . . . I’d like to tender to Donald J. Trump a sincere…

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Trump has the Support of the Police, the Army and the Klan . . .Oh Why Can’t the Blind See?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

I’d venture to say, this angry WASP backlash is hyper-escalating at scary-ass pace. The Johnny Reb’s coming back-to-life in front of our eyes, like Frankenstein.

Lord Trump has the backing and support of the US military veterans, local police departments across the land, and he’s garnered the endorsement of the Klan.…

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Justice Antonin Scalia Is Dead; It’s a New Dawn, It’s a New Day, It’s a New Life for Millions

By Desi Cortez Columnist

if you’re asking me to go beyond a respectful, courteous nod to the family, a customary tip-of-the-hat, don’t hold your breath. Forgive me please, but anything more would be a form of deceit, hypocrisy, and dishonesty. . . masquerading as admiration if not honor, and I’ve neither for the man.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died. I feel exactly as I'm sure the "Munchkins" felt when Dorothy's house landed on the Wicked Witch of the…

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How Long Before Trump Calls Somebody A Nigger, And His Poll Numbers Skyrocket!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

their Great White Hope has arrived and it doesn’t trouble nor pain Conservatives/Confederates, i.e., Trump’s Stormtroopers that the Klan, yes the Klan has found a man, the hi’ n’ all-so mighty Trump, with whom they share common lower-ground.

Donald Trump’s going through a quasi/neo-Confederate coronation of-sorts, the platinum paved trailer park jamboree which is the Republican TEA Party is currently in the process of…

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For Trump’s Black Preachers – It’s a Thin Line between Preaching and Pimpining

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Trump claims he “saw love in the room.” I’d argue those Black ministers in the room saw thousands of dollar bills. Enough cold-cash to upgrade their Caddies and take a 14-day Eastern Caribbean cruise.

Donald Trump’s willing to out-right purchase as much clout and influence within Black America as he’s calculated he’ll need in-order to pull-off a victory in the…

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