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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.
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Sharp n’ Blunt
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Prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry have been rebranded as patriotic values.
Donald Trump’s elevation to the gilded throne of the Lord Emperor was no accident. His rise isn’t the result of happenstance, coincidence, or even the chaotic…
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Agenda 47 and Project 2025 aren’t just plans - they’re the nefarious blueprints of a Bond villain aiming to reshape America into some dystopian nightmare.
Why do we both fear and loath Trump? America isn’t just pregnant - it’s in the back seat of Uber-ride full-blown labor, screaming bloody murder as…
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he had the audacity to serve as Vice President to Obama. That’s a sin that simply can’t be washed away, not even with the blood, sweat, and tears of American democracy.
You tell me, but sometimes the MAGA Majority, i.e., “mainstream” White America, pathetically the majority of the rank and file WASP population, is so aggressive, so…
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what we have is a choice between democracy and a tyrannical dictatorship, between multiculturalism and blatant White supremacy.
Lord Trump is now, thanks in great part to Supreme Court Judge Alito and his “boy” Uncle Thomas, officially “untouchable” and “above the law” of this…
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Maddow’s right to worry, and so should every single one of us. This isn’t just about her safety - it’s about all of us facing a terrifying future where freedom is a distant memory.
America Needs a Drink…! Pour yourself a stiff one, my fellow Americans, because these no longer seriously deemed to be the “United” States are in desperate…
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It’s like standing in front of a burning cross and denying the flames are hot.
Ah, “Denial” - a river not just gently winding its way through the heart of Mother Africa, but raging with white-water rapids through the tumultuous territories…
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The nation tunes in as Air Force One is temporarily rebranded “Inmate One,” touching down at JFK, before the motorcade takes him to Rikers Island.
Donald Trump was weighed, measured and pounded, and in the end he was found to be guilty of 34 felonies. Within minutes of the verdict being…
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It’s impossible to separate symbols of the Confederacy from the values of White supremacy.
Do you dig that baby? Let’s just start with this cocktail conversation tidbit of US history: the traitorous Confederacy was composed of 11 states, yet, still,…
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Their stranglehold on power, fueled by bigotry and nostalgia for a whitewashed past, serves as a chilling reminder of the depths to which our nation can sink.
Once again, America finds itself engulfed in the suffocating fog of yet another “Great White Hopes” era, another grim resurgence of privilege and prejudice that routinely…
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