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A Pennsylvania school recently discovered the true identity of an ex-Bronx principal fired two years ago for racist writings. 

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Borzellieri pictured on the cover of his book, "The Unspoken Truth: Race, Culture and Other Taboos."

A Pennsylvania school recently discovered the true identity of an ex-Bronx principal fired two years ago for racist writings. The former principal had legally changed his name to be hired at DuBois Area Catholic School in the Diocese of Erie, the Associated Press reported. 

In 2011, Frank Borzellieri was fired from his job as a Catholic school principal in the Bronx due to the white supremacist views expressed in his book, "The Unspoken Truth: Race, Culture and Other Taboos." 

After legally changing his name to Mario Bella, Borzellieri was hired in Pennsylvania at the end of last year. The new hire didn't last long when the diocese uncovered his past.

During his two years at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School in the Bronx, Borzellieri served as principal to a primarily Black and Latino student body before the Archdiocese of New York found his writings.

In his book, Borzellieri wrote that Black and Latinos, "spend most of their lives with massive chips on their shoulders, searching for, flailing at, and whining about every perceived slight."

He perpetuated racial stereotypes with made-up assertions such as, "at the Olympics, the 100 meter dash is simply a competition between blacks. Not one white, Asian, Arab or Hispanic even qualified for the final."

Borzellieri also inaccurately cited arrest rates to argue that all Latino individuals were violent, writing, "Hispanics commit violence at approximately three times the white race," and ignoring the fact that Latinos are targeted at higher rates than whites because of stereotypes prolonged by people like himself. 

Borzellieri also wrote a book in the 1990s called, "Lynched: A Conservative's Life on a New York City School Board." In the same decade, he tried to ban a Martin Luther King Jr. biography in his district, claiming that the national hero was a "leftist hoodlum with significant Communist ties."

And yet for two years in New York and a month in Pennsylvania, the bigoted "Bella" was allowed to make decisions that affected children's educations. 

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