Independent since 2002 Issue No. 1102 Week of November 7, 2026 Get the free email dispatch →

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

The White House Was Built by Slaves—Now It’s Being Rebuilt for a King

By Desi Cortez Columnist

So let’s stop pretending this is just a renovation. It’s desecration. The physical manifestation of a republic being hollowed out, brick by brick, truth by truth, right before our eyes.

America built its cathedral to liberty with shackled hands and broken backs. That’s not a metaphor - it’s the crime scene that started this country. The…

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Cover Story

The Republican Party Is Exactly “Who” and “What” We Knew Them To Be

By Desi Cortez Columnist

When you plant bigotry and water it with fear for fifty years, don’t act surprised when it grows teeth and types “I love Hitler.”

Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber. I’m ready to watch people burn now. When do we start bullying dude? Are you going…

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America’s Moral Majority Is Being Mugged by Reality — and the Left Is Still

By Desi Cortez Columnist

They believed the United States of America had matured past fascism, that education and empathy were vaccines against hate, that a few indictments could save democracy.

To the modern MAGA mind, the Left isn’t just a political ideology - it’s the enemy of White people. That’s the translation, no “JohnnyQuest” decoder ring…

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America Is Lost

By Desi Cortez Columnist

greatness isn’t a birthright but a practice.

America - the White man’s America, the stars-and-bars-in-the-garage America, the citizens who kneel before Trump like he’s Caesar at a NASCAR tailgate - you are lost.…

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A Five-Point Program To Save Democracy (and Maybe the Planet)

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Five words. Five points. Five reasons not to roll the dice on authoritarian cosplay.

If - and it’s a very shaky if - the United States of America is still recognizable as an actual country by the time the 2026/28…

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Eulogies with Erasers: Why I Won’t Lie at Charlie Kirk’s Funeral

By Desi Cortez Columnist

If you must eulogize, eulogize correctly: a skilled political entrepreneur, beloved by his base, slain in a nation where violence is too easy and certainty is cheap - who also spent his career punching down and selling hierarchies as hope.

As King Trump bangs the war drums on Americans of color, here’s the script I’m handed: hush my voice, cork my rage, pin a tasteful black…

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MAGA at the NFL Roundtable: The Scariest Huddle in America

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Together, they turn the NFL into a cultural superweapon: the ultimate crossover event between politics and sports.

The Giants have sold a piece of their pigskin soul to the soulless Koch family. It allowed them to buy into America’s #1 Sunday religion. One…

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How Democrats Keep Selling Us Out

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Will they replay the Compromise of 1877 and watch America slide back into White nationalist control?

The capitulation of White America is one for the Ripley’s file - believe it or don’t, but from backyard BBQs to sports bars to Saturday salons,…

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Trump and His Gang of Despicables Are Above the Law – They Are the Untouchables

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The Trump administration has turned ICE into a federally funded street gang with badges, hunting for melanin like it’s contraband.

Trump and his squad of swaggering sycophants aren’t just above the law - they’ve gentrified lawlessness, franchised it, slapped their names on the side, and sold…

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