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Hakeem Jeffries dodges MSNBC question about Zohran Mamdani identifying as African American on Columbia application
NY Post ^ | 7/06/25 | Ryan King

Posted on 07/07/2025 2:38:41 AM PDT by Libloather

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries refused to delve into the controversy surrounding socialist New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani’s description of himself as “black or African American” on his application for Columbia University in 2009.

Jeffries (D-NY), the highest-ranking black elected official in the US, contorted live on air to dodge the controversy and changed the topic to affordability concerns that have been top of mind for voters.

“The issue that we have to deal with in New York City, which our Democratic nominee did talk about extensively during the primary campaign, is affordability,” Jeffries told Rev. Al Sharpton’s “PoliticsNation” Saturday.

“Whoever’s going to be the next mayor of the city of New York really needs to articulate a concrete plan for making sure that working-class communities, including working-class neighborhoods of color, can still have a place in our great city,” the Brooklyn Democrat went on.

Last week, a bombshell New York Times report based on hacked data revealed that Mamdani identified as “black or African American” and “Asian” on his 2009 Columbia application.

Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and immigrated to the US when he was 7, had campaigned as a Muslim of South Asian descent.

A recently resurfaced video from ambush interviewer “Crackhead Barney” shows the Assemblyman from Queens describing himself as “an Indian, Ugandan, New Yorker.” In that video, he was asked if he’d consider himself African American, and he insisted: “No, I would not.”

The self-described democratic socialist has since explained that he views himself as “an American who was born in Africa.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
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Hakeem can't find the words. Could be a first.
1 posted on 07/07/2025 2:38:41 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

BTTT


2 posted on 07/07/2025 2:45:25 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Libloather

He has no official gesticulation for a question like that.


3 posted on 07/07/2025 3:10:18 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: Libloather; dfwgator

[Hakeem Jeffries dodges MSNBC question about Zohran Mamdani identifying as African American on Columbia application]

Maybe ZM is just pulling an OJ

OJ was in a SNL skit where he said he didn’t want to be black anymore

Around 45-50 years ago


4 posted on 07/07/2025 3:13:30 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in thays of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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What a rank opportunist.......Mamdami will say or do anything to make himself look good.

Fooling nyc voters has him in a quandry......
will be fun to watch him invent ways to benefit himself while he goes after votes........

When he hears there’s 10 Eskimo votes out there he’ll be campaigning in ear muffs.


5 posted on 07/07/2025 3:50:30 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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To: Libloather

Not exactly a pertinent question for Jeffries.


6 posted on 07/07/2025 4:09:03 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Are you now, or have you ever been, a Democrat?)
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To: SaveFerris

Charlize Theron is African American. Elon Musk is African American. So….
Did ZM check “black” on the application?
Anytime you can make Dollat Tree Obama sweat is entertaining.


7 posted on 07/07/2025 4:13:38 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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Irish Nationalists BLOCK Islamic Parade in Dublin.
YouTube ^ | July 4, 2025
Posted on 7/6/2025, 8:53:52 PM by 11th_VA

DUBLIN - Irish Nationalists hold a counterprotest on the same day and time as the Islamic Muharram procession outside the GPO in Dublin.

Victoria Byrne of the Irish Freedom Party also gave a speech. This was a peaceful protest and took place along O’Connell Street in Dublin, Ireland. (Excerpt) Read more at m.youtube.com ...


8 posted on 07/07/2025 4:21:52 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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To: griswold3
Dont forget the first African Astronaut!:


9 posted on 07/07/2025 4:33:04 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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To: griswold3

Hehehehehe


10 posted on 07/07/2025 4:33:37 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in thays of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Libloather

The guy always has the appearance of someone who just woke up. He has a brain dead look about him. Then he speaks and confirms it.


11 posted on 07/07/2025 4:37:20 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Libloather
He's positively infatuated with the sound of his own voice. People like that are tedious.

The DNC is exclusively populated with people like this who have NO depth . This idiocy is, by now, the standardized feature of their policies and rhetoric.

The DNC has a running history of cumulative failures, all of which have originated from these losers and the political culture they inhabit.

To make things worse, they routinely turn their failures against everyone else. If only, just once, a ‘journalist’ would ask, ”Please explain what you just said.”

12 posted on 07/07/2025 6:16:02 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

13 posted on 07/07/2025 7:44:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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