Frank Borzellieri

Frank Borzellieri
Frank Borzellieri on the Ann Liguori Show at the WFAN radio studio in New York, 2006
Born	1962 Ridgewood, Queens, New York
Occupation	Author

Frank Borzellieri (born 1962) is an American author, teacher, political columnist, former elected member of a New York City school board and a former school principal. Borzellieri was born in Ridgewood, Queens, New York and attended Catholic schools.

Borzellieri taught journalism at St. Barnabas High School, which is run by Sisters of Charity of New York, from 2006 to 2008.

He was principal at Our Lady Of Mt. Carmel School in The Bronx, which is run by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.

Borzellieri is employed by St. John’s University in New York City as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mass Communications.

Borzellieri was fired by the Archdiocese of New York for writings it deemed racist. However, The Archdiocese reviewed all of Borzelieri's writings before he was hired, and they were deemed suitable and compatible with the church at the time he was hired. What's not clear is why the Bronx Catholic School didn't simply Google Borzellieri, and find excerpts from his 1999 book, The Unspoken Truth: Race, Culture and Other Taboos, such as:

Blacks commit most of the violent crime in America today. This has always been the case. They are ten times as likely to commit a crime of violence as whites...So what these numbers actually reveal in addition to the obvious—that blacks are inveterately more violent than whites—is that there is actually more black on white crime than black on black crime. Borzellieri is currently suing the New York Daily News for a defamatory article that was published in 2011 which led to his dismissal.

Borzellieri was a Queens school board member from 1993 to 2002. Borzellieri was elected to the District 24 New York City School Board in 1993 and was re-elected in both 1996 and 1999. In his tenure on the board he described himself as the only "conservative" of the nine elected members, and battled frequently with liberals over hot-button issues such as multiculturalism and bilingual education, both of which he strongly opposed. Borzellieri also wanted to ban African American Vernacular English, also known as ebonics, from being taught in the school system.