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Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application
NY Times ^ | 7/3/25 | Benjamin Ryan

Posted on 07/03/2025 3:58:39 PM PDT by CaptainK

As he runs for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani has made his identity as a Muslim immigrant of South Asian descent a key part of his appeal.

But as a high school senior in 2009, Mr. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, claimed another label when he applied to Columbia University. Asked to identify his race, he checked a box that he was “Asian” but also Black or African American,” according to internal data derived from a hack of Columbia University that was shared with The New York Times.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: african; american; appropriation; columbiau; columbiauniversity; fraud; fraudster; hamas
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In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Mamdani, 33, said he did not consider himself either Black or African American, but rather “an American who was born in Africa.” He said his answers on the college application were an attempt to represent his complex background given the limited choices before him, not to gain an upper hand in the admissions process. (He was not accepted at Columbia.)
1 posted on 07/03/2025 3:58:39 PM PDT by CaptainK
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To: CaptainK

African like Elon Musk.


2 posted on 07/03/2025 3:59:06 PM PDT by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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To: CaptainK

he’s white


3 posted on 07/03/2025 4:00:47 PM PDT by sopo
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To: sopo

A little fib on a form brings a lot of privileges.

https://www.google.com/search?q=images+soul+man+movie&sca_esv=cd9ebedd7c5ebb4f&udm=2&biw=1052&bih=506&ei=6QtnaNneA6zFp84P0_yv8A8&ved=0ahUKEwiZ9_Pr5aGOAxWs4skDHVP-C_4Q4dUDCBE&oq=images+soul+man+mo


4 posted on 07/03/2025 4:03:47 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: CaptainK

Maybe he’s genealogy fluid.


5 posted on 07/03/2025 4:03:52 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: CaptainK

In all the things I hate about this POS, I honestly dont care what he identifies as, he could identity as a bucket of chicken doesnt take away the fact that he is a pro hamas, open border, full blown communist who wants to take people’s private health insurance and their private homes


6 posted on 07/03/2025 4:04:06 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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“Mr. Mamdani’s father was a professor at Columbia at the time his son applied to college and remains so now.”

Just like Elizabeth Warren whose husband worked at Harvard, the relative told them what boxes to check to increase their odds of getting into the Ivy.

7 posted on 07/03/2025 4:04:43 PM PDT by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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Mamdani and his woke, post-British empire parents who magically wind-up in elite circles at Columbia and Hollywood - stink of some kind of MI6 cut-out.


8 posted on 07/03/2025 4:07:01 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Texas Eagle

With high cheek bones and a pic on the mantle to boot.


9 posted on 07/03/2025 4:07:38 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: sopo

More on Soul Man.

In a conversation the director recounted having with President Barack Obama when he revealed to Spike Lee that the first movie he took Michelle Obama to was his own “Do the Right Thing.”
“Thank God … otherwise you would have taken her to ‘Soul Man,’” he recalled saying.
(Lee trashed the film Soul Man.)


10 posted on 07/03/2025 4:09:35 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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when will his “Native African cook book” come out?


11 posted on 07/03/2025 4:10:12 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: CaptainK

If we had a real press, they would ask him if he’s African American like Elon Musk.


12 posted on 07/03/2025 4:10:13 PM PDT by Vesuvian
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To: FirstFlaBn

Not to mention the family lore told around the campfire as they roasted human beings over the coals.


13 posted on 07/03/2025 4:10:45 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: CaptainK

Like Obama, or Warren. A lying shack of sit.


14 posted on 07/03/2025 4:12:43 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: CaptainK

What are you supposed to check when “America hating Communist” is not an option?


15 posted on 07/03/2025 4:13:51 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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I think it’s a given when applying to Columbia.


16 posted on 07/03/2025 4:15:52 PM PDT by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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Fair enough.


17 posted on 07/03/2025 4:16:42 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: CaptainK

RE: he did not consider himself either Black or African American,

Malcolm X said: “you and I, 22 million African-Americans — that’s what we are — Africans who are in America. You’re nothing but Africans. Nothing but Africans. In fact, you’d get farther calling yourself African instead of Negro.”

Later, sounding a lot like 2025 speeches by Dems:
“I’m not a politician, not even a student of politics. In fact, I’m not a student of much of anything. I’m not a Democrat, I’m not a Republican, and I don’t even consider myself an American. If you and I were Americans, there’d be no problem. Those Honkies that just got off the boat, they’re already Americans. Polacks are already Americans. The Italian refugees are already Americans. Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American, and as long as you and I have been over here, we aren’t Americans yet.”

In the same speech he continued, “No, I am not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism; one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy.

“So, I’m not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver. No, not I. I am speaking as a victim of this American system, and I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.”
Speech quoted by writer Kalonda Mulamba on Medium.com “Malcolm X Speaks: I Am Not An American. We are all Africans.”


18 posted on 07/03/2025 4:19:22 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Surely this guy knows they will dissect him piece by piece.


19 posted on 07/03/2025 4:26:52 PM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: sopo

Elon is from Africa. Race has nothing to do with it.


20 posted on 07/03/2025 4:31:29 PM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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