WHY THE HELL IS FRANK BORZELLIERI RUNNING A LARGELY BLACK AND LATINO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?

You know how conservatives cry about black racists being allowed to do whatever while white racists are kept down? If you ever hear this guy say that laugh in his face. It will help keep you from punching him in it. Frank Borzellieri, who is so bad he was being followed by the OPP founders years BEFORE OPP started, has gotten more passes than a little bit from New York City’s conservatives. They tried to pretend there was nothing wrong with an open white supremacist being on a Queens school board for twelve years, and said absolutely nothing when he tried to get books on Martin Luther King, Jr. banned. He since went on to be a professor at St. John’s University and a teacher at a local Catholic school, despite warnings from the faculty that students expressed concerns and straight-up anger about the man. The pastor running the parish he teached in didn’t care. In fact, two years ago when that pastor moved to another parish, he made Borzellieri principal of a school with a predominately Black and Latino student body. It is only now that this is coming to light, and folks are asking how is this being allowed. We aren’t asking that. We are saying not only does Borzellieri need to be removed, but this stupid, stupid STUPID, pastor that hired him needs to pack his bags too. We include with our article an interesting video. If you find the writeup from American Reniassance about their 2000 Conference you would read that “A New Jersey cable station taped parts of the conference, but C-Span, which has covered AR conferences in the past, did not appear.” Ummm… this has never been said before, but that “New Jersey cable station” was actualy a public access program produced by DLJ a few months before One People’s Project started. There is some interesting video from that conference that we have never released before of interviews with some of the attendees, which include David Duke, anti-immigration activist Wayne Lutton and Frankie here, whose interview we now provide.

One People’s Project

A newspaper article has revealed that a well-known and prominent white supremacist, who gained noteriety for his 12-year tenure on a New York City school board by railing against multiculturalism and homosexuality, has served for two years as a principal for a Catholic elemantary school in the Bronx with a predominately Black and Latino student population – despite his belief expressed in one of his books that “rising black and Hispanic populations in America will lead to the ‘New Dark Age'”.

According to a July 31 article in the New York Daily News, Frank Borzellieri, who has contributed to Jared Taylor’s American Renaissance (AmRen) and has spoken at AmRen conferences in the past, was quietly installed by Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Fordham, Bronx  by the Mount Carmel pastor, Rev. Eric Rapaglia in 2009, once he became pastor there. Rev. Rapaglia says he knew Borzellieri from his old parish, St. Barnabas School in Woodlawn, Bronx, where Borzellieri taught English from 2006 to 2009. Teachers warned Rev. Rapagilia about Borzellieri at that time as well, but according to Annemarie Zagaglia, principal of St. Barnabas School, he “dismissed the whole thing, and that was the end of that.”

Asked about hiring Borzellieri given his past, Rev. Rapaglia is still dismissive about the concerns. “Do I agree with all of it? No. But I think much of it is valuable and logical and reasonable,” he said. “A lot of his ideas would actually benefit minorities.”

Borzellieri’s history would suggest otherwise. He has written several articles for American Renaissance, including “My Battle Against Multiculturalism” and “The Bernard Goetz Affair: More Proof of why Multi-Racialism Does Not Work” (in a well known story from 1985, Goetz shot and wounded four black men in a New York City subway believing they were going to rob him). He has also spoken at American Renaissance Conferences, had his books published by Taylor’s New Century Foundation, which also publishes American Renaissance, and when he ran for office, Taylor personally endorsed one of those campaigns, writing that he “isn’t afraid to say that whites had better wake up before they lose their country.”

To that end, Borzellieri’s tenure on the school board included a campaign to ban literature he deemed “anti-American” from school libraries, which particularly included books on different races and culture, and a biography of King. He also worked unsuccessfully to remove an openly gay teacher and gay-rights activist from the classroom at Public School 199 in Sunnyside, and ban school employees from making any references to homosexuality.

After the New York City Board of Education was restructured to give control of the school system was given to the mayor and the community school boards were abolished Borzellieri went on to work as a professor at St. John’s university and as a teacher at St. Barnabas. The article notes that one of the teachers at St. Barnabas notified the Archdiocese of New York in 2007 that the students had complained Borzellieri was using them as “research” for his books, but the teacher never got a response, and Archdiocese spokesman Joe Zwilling said there is no record of a complaint against Borzellieri, but said the matter is under review. In 2009, Borzellieri published “Lynched: A Conservative’s Life on a New York City School Board”.