Desi Cortez

There was a time in this country when, had OJ Simpson been found guilty of murdering his White ex-wife, despite White society branding her as a tarnished women, an i.e., Nigger Love, OJ would�ve been dragged out of his jail cell, castrated, and hanged at sunset. And I don�t believe that�s an exaggeration, hanged by…

Black Bird-men… That was the term-of-respect the flying Nazi�s used to describe the Tuskegee Airman�s skills and dogged tenacity. Those who respected them, wished to imitate and emulate them called them, Colored Flyers while far too many of their military peers, US politicians and American Citizens of that era referred to them as merely…Flyin� Niggers.…

BlackCommentator.com Columnist, Desi Cortez, was hatched in the heart of Dixie, circa 1961, at the dawning of the age of Aquarius, the by-product of four dynamic individuals, Raised in South-Central LA, the 213, at age 14 transplanted to the base of the Rockies, Denver. Still a Mile-Hi. Sat at the feet of scholars for many,…

I’ve always understood their was a distinct, inherent bond between racism, sexism and classism, that being exploitation, pimping thoseamong us with the least. It has always seemed evident to me that I lived in a nation, the US of A, which proudly proclaims itself to have the most advanced form of modernized civilization ever constructed…

As this nation’s first Black President pontificates from the highest podium in all-the-world, issuing, not idle threats – but rather swear-on-my-momma’s grave type promises to not permit Iraq to light their Nuclear candle, while at the same time he’s tellin’ the Chinese to “grow up,” one can only ponder if this president is writing checks…

The liberal, progressive White folks who dot the political landscape of the Left are, in my – an nearly half-century old Black man’s honest, humble opinion…simply better people, far-better human beings, more advanced, civilized creatures – then the conservative (racist/sexist & elitist) White people who populate the political Right in American life. You may not…

Give the people what they want. America’s streets are, at long-last, being invaded, seized, alas occupied – by, can you believe it… White folks – who’ve just had that 2:37 in the AM wake-your-ass-up call; yes, either we all stand together… or we’ll all swing together. Believe it, this country’s “Everyday people” who sing-a-simple-ass song…

If Black America fears with whom Obama may be burning the mid-night oil, up-plottin’, break’in bread behind closed Black House doors with Dixie-crat disciples of Reagen … betraying the best interest of Black Americans, then good lord, Mary, sweet mother of Jesus…we’re going to be scared as Hell who TEA Bagger Herman Cain might be…

Please keep in mind I’m not a religious fanatic, people who’ve two-way conversations with the baby Jesus or chit-chat with harp totin’ Angels named Jerome . . . these people frighten me. I abide by the simple Thomas Paine adage; The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is…