Until this past week, Frank Borzellieri was a principal of Catholic elementary school in the Bronx,New York.\u00a0 Once word was released that Borzellieri was a \u201cwhite supremacist,\u201d however, he was swiftly terminated.<\/p>\n
As it turns out, Borzellieri was, at one time, at any rate, a bit friendlier with a certain organization\u2014American Renaissance (AR)\u2014than the self-appointed guardians of our politically correct orthodoxy believes he had a right to be.\u00a0 AR exists simply and solely for the unhindered promotion of the free exchange of ideas on matters pertaining to race.\u00a0\u00a0 For this, it has been branded a \u201chate group\u201d and purveyor of \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I am affiliated with neither AR nor Frank Borzellieri.\u00a0 But no affiliation with either is necessary in order to recognize that both have been done a great injustice.\u00a0 I am not affiliated in any way with Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage, yet this doesn\u2019t preclude me from appreciating the fact that both men have been treated most unfairly by the very same \u201canti-anti-racists\u201d that have set their sights on AR and Borzellieri: no sooner than he began his job as a football commentator on ESPN, many may recall, Limbaugh lost it for the allegedly \u201cracist\u201d remarks he made regarding Donavan McNabb, and in addition to being fired after a similarly short term career at MSNBC, Savage\u2019s \u201chatred\u201d also landed him on a list of disreputable types including terrorists and murderers that are prevented from entering England.<\/p>\n
The difference, though, between the Limbaughs and Savages of the world, on the one hand, and the Borzellieris, on the other, is that if they live hundreds of years more, the former will never spend another moment worrying about their livelihoods; such, however, is far from the case with the latter.\u00a0 Not unlike yours truly, Borzellieri invested considerable resources in the way of time and money acquiring an education in a field that isn\u2019t exactly known for being lucrative.\u00a0 Even less lucrative than the journalism career in which he evidently excelled in was the position of a Catholic school<\/em> principal that he ultimately chose to pursue.\u00a0<\/p>\n Yet now Borzellieri is out of a job for no other reason but that he dared, at one time<\/em>, to express politically incorrect beliefs concerning race while maintaining an affiliation of a sort with AR.<\/p>\n The more one learns of both AR and Borzellieri, the more this episode becomes at once interesting and disturbing, for you see, if Borzellieri is a \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d because of his<\/em> association with AR, then there is a whole lot of other popular media personalities and organizations that are guilty of \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d because of their <\/em>association with it.\u00a0 Some of these have a relationship with Borzellieri as well.\u00a0 This is interesting.\u00a0 <\/em>What is disturbing <\/em>is that thus far, not one of these personalities or outlets has so much as mentioned the travesty that Borzellieri had visited upon him, much less defended him.\u00a0<\/p>\n Let\u2019s begin with AR by focusing specifically on its founder, Jared Taylor.<\/p>\n This \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d has contributed articles and essays to such publications as the Wall Street Journal; <\/em>the Los Angeles Times; <\/em>the Chicago Tribune; <\/em>the Baltimore Sun; <\/em>the San Francisco Chronicle; <\/em>the Boston Globe; National Review; <\/em>and the Washington Post. <\/em>\u00a0He has also spoken at the University of Pennsylvania, George Mason University, Temple University Law School, Hillsdale College, Howard University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Texas.\u00a0 He has taught Japanese at Harvard University and is the author of several books, including a couple that were met with critical acclaim upon their release: Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the Japanese Miracle <\/em>and Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America. <\/em><\/p>\n Taylor made multiple appearances, not just on \u201cconservative\u201d talk radio, but as well in such left-leaning venues as Donahue, <\/em>Chris Mathews\u2019 Hard Ball, <\/em>Joe Scarborough\u2019s Scarborough Country, <\/em>and Queen Latifah\u2019s short lived daytime talk show.\u00a0 But there is more.\u00a0 As \u201cEdward Bernays\u201d notes in Vdare.com, \u201cC-SPAN broadcast at least two of AR\u2019s bi-annual conferences and also two press conferences where Taylor was a speaker.\u201d\u00a0 It is precisely just these bi-annual conferences, not incidentally, that Borzellieri participated in\u2014and it is his participation in them that supposedly establish his subscription to \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201d\u00a0 Bernays mentions that when \u201cAR\u2019s groundbreaking Color of Crime <\/em>report\u201d was released in 1999, it \u201cwas actually discussed on the Rush Limbaugh Show\u2026.\u201d\u00a0 Interestingly, it wasn\u2019t Limbaugh himself who actually discussed the report but guest host Walter E. Williams, a black <\/em>economist who \u201csummarized the report favorably to Limbaugh\u2019s 20 million listeners.\u201d\u00a0 Taylor even managed to hold \u201ca press conference at the National Press Club to discuss the report\u201d that \u201cwas widely attended and resulted in a CSPAN broadcast and national print coverage.\u201d\u00a0 American Thinker\u2019s <\/em>Robert Weissberg and Pat Buchanan too are friendly with Taylor and AR. \u00a0<\/p>\n However, it isn\u2019t just the aforementioned figures and outlets that are guilty of \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d for lending legitimacy to Taylorand his ilk. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n In 1999, seven radio talk show hosts spoke to Taylor\u2019s American Renaissance <\/em>magazine about their views on race, IQ, immigration, white racial consciousness, and the prospects of whites being reduced to a minority within the decades to come.\u00a0 It may shock some readers to discover this, but among those hosts were Michael Reagan (son of President Ronald Reagan), Michael Medved, talk radio legend Bob Grant, and two black radio personalities, Larry Elder (the \u201cSage from South Central\u201d (Los Angeles)) and Ken Hamblin (\u201cThe Black Avenger\u201d).\u00a0<\/p>\n Time constraints prevent a fuller review of the exchanges that transpired between AR and these hosts.\u00a0 But suffice it to say, all seven of them had nothing but harsh words for the politically correct orthodoxy on these matters.\u00a0 Particularly surprising were Michael Medved\u2019s comments on these matters. Concerning the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act, he said that this issue demands that we make a choice as to whether we want to preserve \u201cAnglo-Saxon culture\u201d or dissolve it. Medved rhetorically asks: \u201cShould Anglo-Saxon be dissipated or should it be respected?\u201d \u00a0As to whether IQ differences between the races are genetically based, Medved did not <\/em>flat out reject this proposition but, rather, replied that the relationship between biology, IQ, and environment is \u201ctoo complex\u201d to speak given \u201cthe few lines\u201d from which he would be quoted.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Yet the point in alluding to this is not to endorse or refute either AR\u2019s or these radio personalities\u2019 position(s) on these topics.\u00a0 It is solely to show that if AR is really \u201cthe white supremacist\u201d organization that its critics make it out to be, and if Borzellieri is a \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d for having consorted with it, then Michael Reagan, Michael Medved, Bob Grant, Larry Elder, and Ken Hamblin must be \u201cwhite supremacists\u201d too.\u00a0<\/p>\n As for Borzellieri, if he is a \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d because of his association with an allegedly \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d organization, then presumably those who associate with him <\/em>must not be too terribly uncomfortable with \u201cwhite supremacy,\u201d if they don\u2019t embrace it altogether.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n This is relevant, for Borzellieri has contributed to, among other publications, Newsday, USA Today, <\/em>and the New York Daily News.\u00a0 <\/em>He has made appearances on Leeza Gibson\u2019s, Geraldo Rivera\u2019s, and Ricki Lake\u2019s shows, Good Morning America, Fox Sunday, The Sean Hannity Show, <\/em>and The Alan Colmes Show.\u00a0 <\/em>In fact he counts Colmes, an avowed \u201cliberal,\u201d as among his \u201cfriends.\u201d\u00a0 National Review <\/em>and Human Events <\/em>are among the \u201cconservative\u201d publications that have lavished praise upon Borzellieri.\u00a0<\/p>\n Frank Borzellieri has been subjected to rank injustice and no one in either \u201cthe mainstream\u201d or so-called \u201calternative\u201d media has lifted a finger to come to his aid.<\/p>\n Given that the shots to assassinate his character were fired in the pages of theNew Yorkpapers, the Fox News crowd especially must be aware of what he is being made to endure at this time.\u00a0 And yet there is silence.<\/p>\n If political correctness weakens as the \u201cconservative\u201d movement strengthens, then the abrupt reversal of fortunes that Borzellieri suffers and the refusal on the part of \u201cconservatives\u201d to defend him constitute a powerful commentary on the true condition of their movement.<\/p>\n Jack Kerwick, Ph.D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Until this past week, Frank Borzellieri was a principal of Catholic elementary school in the Bronx,New York.\u00a0 Once word was released that Borzellieri was a \u201cwhite supremacist,\u201d however, he was swiftly terminated. 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