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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

What Have Black Folks Done to Evoke Such Blind-Hatred?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

there needs to be not necessarily an apology but a cultural "confession" leading to a much-needed "reformation." White bigotry and the resulting discrimination isn’t a figment of the imagination of the nation’s non-White population.

I’ve a honest legitimate question to lay on the table, and I submit it to apparently millions of White Americans: “Why do you so hate Black…

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How Long Before The Trees Begin To Bear Strange Fruit Again?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

tomorrow looks bleak my friend. We are headed the way of Native Americans. 50 years from now 75% of Blacks will be housed on urban reservations.

How would White policemen treat Blacks, Latinos, Indians, Asians and Arabs, i.e., fellow Americans-Of-Color if they could, say . . . do as they please? I’d…

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Does White America Have A Conscience?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Both the CIA and the American police forces are predominated by para-militaristic White males who openly describe and proudly define themselves as political Conservatives.

Both the CIA and the American police forces are predominated by para-militaristic White males who openly describe and proudly define themselves as political Conservatives.

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Don’t Forget to Set Your Clocks Back 50 Years When You Go to Sleep Tonight

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Like cavemen dragging their women across the ground by their hair... the Republican TEA Party is deliberately hauling America back, back, back all the way into the middle of the last century, to a Black n’ White polarized place where they - White men, and only White men - had complete, absolute control over people-of-color and women in this nation.

“Don’t forget to set your clocks back 50 years when you go to sleep tonight”. Consider this, if you will - this President’s two-terms have created…

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George Zimmerman Has a Home in Colorado

By Desi Cortez Columnist

the population will willingly welcome and embrace you.

With the conclusion of the Trayvon Martin public lynching, George Zimmerman has little reason to go into hiding; he has no reason to exile himself all…

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How Can a Black Man Love a Nation That Defends George Zimmerman

By Desi Cortez Columnist

How do black people set-aside the harsh reality that is America to praise a system that does not work for us on so many different levels?

Let me see if I’ve got this whole “Love America” thing straight. As George Zimmerman smugly sits in a Land-Of-Dixie courtroom, perhaps but only moments away…

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George Zimmerman and all America Sits on Pins n’ Needles

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Martin’s bereaved parents are saying, before the trial even begins, “we want justice, and we want everyone to remain calm.”

A town, a state , a region, an entire nation... sitting on “pins n’ needles.” Good God... Paint if you will, a picture, a polarized-picture, in…

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“Patriotism is the Last Final Refuge of Scoundrels…” and Republicans!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The “Right” has successfully anointed themselves the lone, last Red, White n’ Blue bastion of true, genuine, authentic frontier patriots who love their country.

There’s little, if any, surprise that America’s aging, withering, nonetheless entrenched, WASP establishment is looking for a “Trojan Horse” - some form of camouflage in which…

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Rush Limbaugh . . .President Of White America

By Desi Cortez Columnist

White Wall Street, White Main Street don’t give a damn about the boulevards of broken American Dreams.

Who Really Speaks for “White America?” Well wait, before we determine “who” - there’re those White folks who’ll hysterically contend there’s but “one America... indivisible, with…

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