Posted on 07/03/2025 4:48:13 PM PDT by CFW
South Asian socialist identitarian mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani identified as "Black or African American" as well as "Asian" on his college applications, The New York Times has learned via a hack of Columbia University's application data. Millions of records were leaked.
Mamdani, who was born to parents of Indian descent in Uganda, said he checked the box because the identity boxes on the application weren't enough to show the breadth and scope of his ethnic and racial composition.
He admitted to the Times that as a high school senior in 2009, he filled out all his forms the same way, including on his application to Columbia University, where his father taught then and is still on the faculty. The data hack was an effort to discover if Columbia still uses a race-based admissions program as they did at the time Mamdani was considering the school.
His Hollywood film director mother Mira Nair has said her son is "a total desi," a term for South Asians. "He is a total desi," she said in 2013, "We are not firangs at all. He is very much us. He is not an Uhmericcan (American) at all. He was born in Uganda, raised between India and America. He is at home in many places. He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian."
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On Thursday, he told the Times that he doesn't consider himself to be either of the things he checked off on that application back in 2009, instead saying he considers himself to be "an American who was born in Africa."
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Think Fauxcahontas.
A real chameleon isn’t he?
Kamala bobs her head in sincere understanding.
Maybe the people who believe in quotas will realize who is affected by ths kind of racial misappropriation
If they are going to ask that question, then they need to have categories that are are more exact and meaningful. There are Americans who are Africans, and there are African-Americans. Not the same thing at all. And exactly what is an Asian? Koreans, Afghanis, Saudi Arabians, Turks, and Israeli Jews have little in common except they occupy the same vast land mass.
My family originated in Olduvai Gorge, so I am of African descent.
I am now too old to demand a tenured position at Harvard, but I still want to know where to sign up for reparations.
What a privileged a-hole this commie is.
ISWYDT
Well he is more African American than most American blacks.
Lol. I was trying to be subtle.
Wasn’t he born in Africa?
“Wasn’t he born in Africa?”
That wouldn’t make him African American. He was born in Bombay though.
Well, at least he didn’t marry his sibling to gain entry into the USA.
He immigrated here from Africa. Specifically Uganda, which had a large Asian minority from British colonial times, until Idi Amin threw them out.
A regular Houdini Mamdani……an islamist prick masquerading as a commie who’s going to give everyone whatever they need to hook them…..then watch out cuz you’ll soon be a muslim slave or dead.
Can’t believe people voted for this piece of shiite.
The Dems' middle names.
Liar.
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