Posted on 04/03/2015 5:25:52 PM PDT by lowbridge
In 1998, Vijay Chokal-Ingam was “determined to become a doctor,” but his 3.1 GPA significantly reduced his chances. When he realized his application wouldn’t cut it, he came up with a back-up plan — he pretended to be black.
Chokal-Ingam, brother of famous actress Mindy Kaling, said he “knew that admission standards for certain minorities under affirmative action were, let’s say… less stringent.”
In a blog post, Chokal-Ingam explains how he ended up getting into the St. Louis University School of Medicine despite his low GPA and MCAT score:
So, I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied to medical school as a black man. My change in appearance was so startling that my own fraternity brother didn’t recognize me at first. I even joined the Organization of Black Students and started using my embarrassing middle name that I had hidden from all of my friends since I was a 9 years old.
Vijay the Indian-American frat boy become Jojo the African American Affirmative Action applicant to medical school.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
I too, recall the book and the movie from the 60s - I’m sure millineals probably think the whole thing was weird
Sort of like claiming to be an injun squaw to get ahead?
Huh?
Nationwide Automobile Insurance. She discovers she is not, in fact, invisible. Because Nationwide cares so much about her. Or guys on a basketball court do. One or the other.
I have a virtual machine running just for this purpose. If I have time, I play the game. I had one on the phone for almost 30 minutes once before he got PO’d and hung up on me. Its funny they start digging through event logs and stuff. I have like 10 different malware and root kits running on it, it gives them all sorts of fits. it’s hilarious. The most fun part is sitting there giving them erroneous credit card numbers over and over. some catch on faster than others though
Never heard of her ..... A nobody really....not worth mentioning in the article
That actor wasn't even an Indian.
Wow, I remember reading this as a very young boy.
Heh; I do the same thing with “Ian”, “Phil”, “Bruce” etc, all of whom have heavy Indian accents and are probably calling from mom’s basement in Calcutta on Bombay.
Obama is not of the ‘black’ coloration as is used for public purposes. Obama’s ‘dark’ skin is typical of SE Asians where his true sperm daddy headed up a Muslim cult and mama Stanley Ann played around in her late teens. Brown skin is common in SE Asia. As a GI during WWII I was often taken as a person with south Asia skin/heritage. It is very easy to claim ‘black’ heritage with dark skin.
James Whitmore does NOT look "black" at all. In fact it looks like he's in blackface makeup.
In the book, the author shaved his head and actually "passed" as black.
O/T, but Mindy Kaling is hilarious.
She's obviously Indian, but she has an almost "valley girl" accent.
I don't know if she does it for "character", but the effect is rather humorous.
How about “I’m Gonna Get You Sucka” or “Don’t Be A Menace To South Central When Drinking Your Juice In the Hood”?
Somehow I don’t see Hollywood making movies today like the former (where the neighborhood Olympics involve stripping cars in record time and running with a TV on your shoulder) or the latter (where the main character’s biological father is a couple of years younger than him). Two of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen...
I do the same thing; my wife was born in South America.
The black “doctor” at the center of a famous affirmative action case (Bakke?) was later found to have all kinds of malpractice issues; he was given the seat of a better-qualified white student.
I once met with people from a big bank that wanted to do business with my company; there were two older white men flanking a younger black man who would be working with our accounts. As I described our needs and current configuration, any questions I asked the black man (our future rep) were answered by the white guys/”mentors”.
We didn’t follow up with them; I’m not going to have some inexperienced/unqualified token managing our banking affairs.
The mystery continues.
Hollywood has already done a movie about this, it was called Soul Man. It was more about getting a minority scholarship than getting admitted.
I don’t require the services of medical professionals very often but, when I do, I make sure they’re White.
I howled at Fisher Stevens portrayal of that guy as it reminded me of some of those I had worked with. They were always coming up with hilarious ways they butchered the English language. That being said, they spoke better English than I spoke Urdu or Hindi.
The Army guy looks cool but I don’t recognize him or the movie.
> “Hello, this is Phil from Microsoft’s Technical Department . . .
Yeah, that used to break me up when his brother “Randy” would come on line at the help desk. eBay has gotten better as they apparently have moved to the Philippines and have some cute-sounding chicks at the other end.
If Elizabeth Warren is "Native American", my kids are Hispanic.
Because I say so.
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