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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

Money Isn’t God, and God Isn’t Money

By Desi Cortez Columnist

If your version of God is reduced to a walking, talking Wall Street banker, that says far more about you than the Almighty.

Well, here we be — the timeless blasphemy of equating paper and coins, cold cash to divinity. Money has become the planet’s favorite deity-by-default. It answers…

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Trump’s Devil’s Island: A Warden in Chief and the Cellblock Called America

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Yep, it’s so quiet, so, so quiet, you can hear America tiptoeing away from democracy.

Donald Trump isn’t just King again. He’s the warden, the judge, the jury - and let’s be honest, the guy smuggling contraband into the prison yard.…

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Oh My God, a Black Pope? The World Would Lose Its Preconceived Mind!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Their predictable reaction would be a mix of horror, confusion, and rage, all wrapped up in a shiny, “we need to protect tradition” package. Translation, save White dominance.

After Pope Francis’ death, debates begin over his successor. And yes, oh my God, a Black Pope? This world would lose its little small, simple, preconceived…

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Only a Fool Would Let His Enemy Teach His Children

By Desi Cortez Columnist

far too many white teachers — especially the MAGA-flavored, culture war crusaders hiding behind an apple and a flag pin — don’t respect Black children.

And yet here we are — generation after generation — dropping our babies off at the feet of an institution that, more often than not, doesn’t…

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The Emperor Is Naked, Sunburned, and Carrying a Flamethrower

By Desi Cortez Columnist

He’s back on the world stage, rumblin’, stumblin’, bumblin’ through summits and trade talks like a chainsaw juggler on a unicycle,

You can call it “International Deal Making” or, you can call it what it is — Global Gaslighting! As the world he’s helped drag to the…

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Stephen A. Smith Is Using His “Black Power” To Challenge MAGA Mad-Men—I Wish More Would

By Desi Cortez Columnist

ESPN’s resident thunderstorm has thrown down the gauntlet, calling out Donald Trump and his Vice Presidential hand puppet, J.D. Vance, for their latest pet project: scrubbing Black heroes from America’s history books.

Un….blanking-believable! So we’re just deleting history now? Just casually erasing the blood, sweat, and tears, from over the last 400 years of Black people, kind of…

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When the Obamas, Clintons, Bidens and Harrises Are Imprisoned, What Will the “Left” Do?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Will it be so eerily still, from coast to coast, Alaska to Nebraska, Fargo to Key Largo, that you can hear the rust flaking off America’s moral compass?

King Trump has decreed that all pardons issued by Joe Biden are “void” due to the alleged use of an autopen for signatures. He’s warned House…

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White Men Gone Mad: The Great Backlash of the 21st Century

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Make no mistake: This isn’t just about nostalgia for a mythical past - it’s a full-fledged effort to reshape the future.

Ladies, gentlemen, all of us completely exhausted by history’s relentless reruns, welcome to America’s latest, most unhinged saga: The Revenge of White Men. Yep, without question,…

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