Cambridge city council candidate drops out after white nationalist posts discovered
“I feel that every race and ethnicity should be pure,’’ John Sanzone wrote.
A candidate for Cambridge city council withdrew from the race after the Cambridge Chronicle & Tab discovered he had posted numerous racist and homophobic messages under his own name on the white nationalist site Stormfront.
John Sanzone, now 27, posted about 100 times under sanzonejjr1115 ten years ago. His chosen topics included his hatred of Jews, gays, and blacks, his support of the Swastika, and his historic fondness for Adolf Hitler.
“I feel that every race and ethnicity should be pure, and have their own nations to themselves,’’ he wrote in one post.
“[T]here are many great reasons to be in opposition to the jews. [T]he attack of [S]eptember 11th is a great reason,’’ he wrote in another.
Sanzone told the Chronicle that he wrote the posts when he was about 16 or 17, secretly gay, and going through personal issues.
On his Facebook, Sanzone said he was “withdrawing completely from Cambridge public life,’’ he wrote.
“This is painful. There is much in my life that I wish I could undo, but alas even the pointless, terrible, and obscure can come back and wrench your very purpose of being. Over the last few years, I made Cambridge my everything, and whatever I was in my younger days has nothing to do with who I am today. I’m sorry I was not a better person.’’
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