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Internal Data from a Hack of Columbia University Reveals Muslim Communist Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Identified as ‘Black’ on College Application
Gateway Pundit, ^ | Jul. 3, 2025 | Cristina Laila

Posted on 07/04/2025 4:44:57 AM PDT by george76

Muslim Communist NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani identified as “Asian” and “Black or African American” on his college application for Columbia University.

The New York Times obtained this internal data from a hack of Columbia University.

Columbia University used an affirmative action admissions program, so Mamdani, an Indian born in Uganda, checked ‘Black’ and ‘Asian’ to give himself an advantage over other applicants.

When confronted about his Columbia University application, Zohran Mamdani told The New York Times that he checked those boxes to ‘capture the fullness” of his background.

“Most college applications don’t have a box for Indian-Ugandans, so I checked multiple boxes trying to capture the fullness of my background,” Mamdani told the Times.

Zohran Mamdani was ultimately not accepted to Columbia University.

The New York Times reported:

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.

Columbia, like many elite universities, used a race-conscious affirmative action admissions program at the time. Reporting that his race was Black or African American in addition to Asian could have given an advantage to Mr. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and spent his earliest years there.

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.)


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; columbia; columbiauniversity; communist; indian; mamdani; moslem; muslim; muslimcommunist; nyc; uganda; university; zohran; zohranmamdani
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1 posted on 07/04/2025 4:44:57 AM PDT by george76
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BTTT


2 posted on 07/04/2025 4:46:18 AM PDT by nopardons
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“Most college applications don’t have a box for Indian-Ugandans, so I checked multiple
boxes trying to capture the fullness of my background,” Mamdani told the Times.


Why didnt he write it in?


3 posted on 07/04/2025 4:48:01 AM PDT by Liz (Thisongress” that gleefully t then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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To: george76

The lesson here is not so much that he cheated the system, but that the system of race-based admissions is wrong.


4 posted on 07/04/2025 4:50:11 AM PDT by jonatron (My pronoun is "garbage.")
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To: nopardons

Elizabeth Warren claimed to a Native American
AOC claimed to be a working-class Brooklynite
Richard Blumenthal claimed to a Vietnam Vet
Tim Walz claimed to a lot of things that were lies

The Democrats claiming to be a victim or a member of a protected class group seems to be a rite of passage.


5 posted on 07/04/2025 4:51:02 AM PDT by srmanuel
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Obama approved of a press release when it said he was born in Kenya and didn’t challenge it because it was advantageous to him at the time. Later it was questioned if he was born in the US and the narrative changed. This is SOP for Democrats.


6 posted on 07/04/2025 4:54:59 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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Hey...it worked for Liz Warren (aka: Liawatha).


7 posted on 07/04/2025 4:55:01 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: srmanuel

This is just further evidence that Democrats are indeed DEMONRATS.


8 posted on 07/04/2025 4:55:49 AM PDT by Machavelli (True God)
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To: george76

Just wait until the reverend Al gets a load of THIS!


9 posted on 07/04/2025 5:04:49 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: george76

We would have less racism if it were illegal to collect information about race. Who cares?


10 posted on 07/04/2025 5:05:08 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: george76

Will this hack show Obama never went to Columbia?


11 posted on 07/04/2025 5:08:39 AM PDT by STJPII ( )
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To: george76

Just provides some “cred” with Dem voters.


12 posted on 07/04/2025 5:12:40 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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“Who cares”? The race baiters, that’s who! HOW, Exactly, would the race-baiters be able to operate, profit and thrive without identity politics? Without knowing identities and successfully pitting one race against another their power would DIE. DEI must D I E! simple.


13 posted on 07/04/2025 5:17:17 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: george76
The bigger story here is that this dude represented himself as a “person of color” and was the child of a Columbia faculty member … and he STILL wasn’t accepted for admission.

I suspect he is a lazy, entitled moron.

14 posted on 07/04/2025 5:18:27 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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To: srmanuel
The Democrats claiming to be a victim or a member of a protected class group seems to be a rite of passage.

And a lot of their men claim to be women. It really is a thing, isn't it?

15 posted on 07/04/2025 5:36:53 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: vetvetdoug

The thing about Democrats is it’s a full-on assault on America 24/7/365 it never stops.

I hear people on our side getting impatient with the Trump Administration on things like releasing the Epstein Files or investigating Russiagate and other issue from the Biden and Obama Administrations.

The difficult part is you would need 20-25 special prosecutors to investigate everything the Democrats have done and continue to do, meanwhile Trump has an economy to look after not to mention multiple wars or potential wars to keep him busy.


16 posted on 07/04/2025 6:05:12 AM PDT by srmanuel
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you would need 20-25 special prosecutors to investigate everything the Democrats have done and continue to do

I'd like to see SOMETHING.

Someone should be arrested. Someone should go to jail. For something. I agree, solving all the world's problems is difficult or impossible. But we're not doing ANYTHING about Deep State crimes.

17 posted on 07/04/2025 6:08:25 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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IMO, if and it’s a big IF you see anyone arrested it will be later in the Trump administration when most of his objectives have been accomplished, getting the economy moving, negotiating the trade deals, deal with the potential wars, etc.

IMO, the most likely thing is you will see NOTHING, no one will get arrested, and no one will be going to jail.

I believe the reason you will see nothing is a lot of Republicans are caught up in the scandals, it would make no sense to wipe out a lot of Republicans right now which would totally derail your agenda.

It’s one of the reasons I think people like Thom Tillis are getting out of the Senate.


18 posted on 07/04/2025 6:26:55 AM PDT by srmanuel
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“The New York Times obtained this internal data from a hack of Columbia University.“

Hmmm, you’d think this guy qualified for the NYTimes political protection program…


19 posted on 07/04/2025 6:57:52 AM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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Good Deal!

Now Hack Obama's /Barry Soetero's records! (Columbia College rather than Columbia U?)

20 posted on 07/04/2025 7:00:55 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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