In New York City the battle against White dispossession was lost long ago but there are still a significant number of Whites who reside in the Rotten Apple. Like Whites in many areas of America, those in New York City must deal with hate crimes, common crime, high taxes, lack of government services and official discrimination in education and employment.
Unlike Whites in most of America, New Yorkers have someone publicly fighting for them.
Until very recently, Frank Borzellieri was a newspaper columnist for the Queens Ledger newspaper group, cable talk show host and elected school board member in the borough of Queens. His outspoken stands for conservative causes have earned him national television appearances on programs such as Fox Sunday Morning, Geraldo Rivera and Michael Moore's TV Nation.
Don't Take It Personally is Borzellieri's second book and is a collection of some of his favorite newspaper columns. Most of his articles deal with race, immigration, crime and the "culture wars." The book has an excellent introduction from Sam Francis, who praises the author for being perhaps the only pro-White columnist still writing for a mainstream newspaper.
Borzellieri, who often writes with a biting sense of humor, sets the stage for his book in the introduction. "The writings in this book received quite a reaction when they first appeared. Compiling them in a collection opens them up to a whole new audience (and to liberal reviewers who will cringe, yet again). I challenge them all not to take it personally, but to attempt to refute my arguments using intelligent reasoning - a quality liberals sorely lack."
The first section of Don't Take It Personally is on culture and includes essays titled, "O.J. Still Searching for Real Killer," "The Fallacy of Environmental Racism," and "AIDS: The Great White Plot." Perhaps the best column in this section is "Was Cleopatra Black?" After piling on the evidence that the ancient Egyptians were not black, Borzellieri observes, "When concocting the fable that some ancient people were Negroid, the Egyptians were probably the worst choice. Quite inconveniently, the Egyptians left mummies."
The second section is devoted to race and genetics.
Articles include, "For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls," "No Quotas Needed in Sports," and "The Biological Reality of Race." Of note is the column, "Why It Matters,"
which discusses the trials of New York City University professor Michael Levin, a philosopher and contributor to AR. Borzellieri writes, "The government makes, as its official rationale for discriminating against Whites and Asians through affirmative action, quotas, set-asides and favoritism, a policy which denies that there are racial differences in intelligence. That is, a policy which has no basis in fact and for which there is no evidence."
The politics and government section of the book is more wide ranging and covers several areas outside of race, including the problem with socialized health care, judicial activism and the coming social security meltdown. But even in this section the author manages to maintain his focus on racial issues. A column titled, "Race Commission Report a Farce," examines President Clinton's 1997 "Dialogue on Race."
Borzellieri notes the stacked panel never really intended a dialogue on race. If it did, it would consider such politically incorrect questions as, "Why is there so much Black crime? What really causes White flight? Why do Asians succeed where Blacks fail?"
The fourth section of the book is dedicated to crime and gun control. Of note here is the article, "Some Hate Crimes More Equal Than Others." In it, the author examines the national media attention given to attacks by Whites against homosexual Matthew Sheppard and a Black man, James Byrd. He compares this reaction with the total lack of attention given to hate crimes against Whites, which happened at the same time.
Borzellieri writes, "The instances of Black-on-White brutality are too many to enumerate. Yet media and politicians create a national din only when the politically correct victim groups are on the wrong side of the violence."
The final sections focus on personal profiles of people like New York's gun-grabbing Senator Chuck Schumer and the late Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. A column about the inept former Black mayor of New York City is titled, "Dinkins: Still a Loser."
It is columns like this that helped Borzellieri become a lightning rod for controversy. The author ends this collection of columns with some fairly standard right-wing commentary on immigration.
