Desi Cortez

Wheat, white or dark rye…? For Romney, it’s truly “Wonder Bread.” I’ll wager you Romney’s customary bet; ten thousand bucks, no less, that honestly speaking – and not merely for the dramatics of the moment – this 65-year-old “Ken” doll has no legitimate clue what a “Happy Meal” costs. He has no inkling what it…

Hang-on, because those words best describe and summarize the �situation� into which we find the American political arena regressing: �King of the Birthers,� Donald, the Trump and Mitt Romney pitted against the President of these alleged United States Of America – Barry �the half-breeded Manchurian boy who would dare be king� Obama and Reverend Jeremiah…

The American landscape is starting to horrifically resemble a 1958 black n� white Godzilla flick…with Black folks filling the lead role of the prehistoric monster come-to-life, and TEA Partying White folks playing to the over-the-top hilt, the victimized role of the Japanese folks…running around in absolute terror as the tyrannical creature is about to devour…

Might it be horrifically appropriate that Tulsa, Oklahoma be the time n� place where White folks went �retro,� reverting back to the vicious and cowardly cold-blooded barbarians US history can�t help but paint n� taint them as… The Killing Season may be upon us. I could use this opportunity here at BlackCommentator.com to discuss a…

No one, not even angry White folks, can tell me there�s no effort by Black folks to halt the murders of Black boys by Black men, nonetheless we face millions of Black boys who were born into a contrived, make-believe world where they�ve been painted n� tainted by the White majority as inherently inferior, as…

I�ve been Black all my life, so with that in mind, I can say to you with all the confidence and conviction in this here world that I know, deep down in my heart, my bat-senses, my spider senses tell me – if ever Oprah, Bill Cosby, Jay-Z concoct any collection of �hi n� all-so-very…

Need I say more? Probably not, but I do need a few white folks to �interpret� exactly what these remarks are. Clean it up a little… tell me what the fat hooded-one really meant. Better yet, I�ll need Clarence Thomas, Michael Steel or Allen West – all who obviously speak fluent �Redneck� to decipher these…

Yesterday, my late grandmother and mother had to live with it, today my wife and sisters – all Afro-American women – still must endure the disrespectful, scornfully abusive, and need I say, so very contemptible as to be offensive comments which endlessly seem to �percolate� out of many White people�s mouths. Over a century of…

You may not dig this, but dig this – in Malcolm�s words: I�m not here tonight to discuss my religion. I�m not here to try and change your religion. I�m not here to argue or discuss anything that we differ about, because it�s time for us to submerge our differences and realize that it is…