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Actress Mindy Kaling's Brother: I Posed As Black Man to Get Into Med School
NBC News ^ | 04/06/2015 | MICHAEL D. NGUYEN

Posted on 04/07/2015 4:33:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Vijay Chokal-Ingam, the brother of writer and actress Mindy Kaling, has sparked controversy with his new book, in which he claims to have been admitted to medical school after posing as a black man.

In the book, titled "Almost Black," Chokal-Ingam claims that he pretended to be a black man after believing certain medical schools practiced affirmative action policies that gave black students an edge in the application process. Chokal-Ingam says he shaved his head, trimmed his "long Indian eyelashes," and used his middle name, Jojo, in an attempt to pass for black. His application also stressed his time spent in Africa, where he and his family lived before moving to the United States.

Chokal-Ingam applied to a number of U.S. medical schools including Harvard, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania in the 1998 application cycle. He claims on the book website that he "never lied about anything on my application, except my race." The website has significant documentation that Chokal-Ingam says proves his theory. With a grade point average of 3.1, Chokal-Ingamwas accepted into St. Louis University in 1999. He eventually dropped out of the school after deciding not to pursue medicine.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; college; medschool; mindykaling; searchandfind; searchmindy
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To: nesnah

Is that from the movie Soul Man?


21 posted on 04/07/2015 6:49:21 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Flick Lives

Yeah, sure. That’s why, when they find skeletal remains, a pathologist can determine the race of the person they belonged to in about 30 seconds. Because it’s all just a construct. /sarc


22 posted on 04/07/2015 6:56:13 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: cyborg
I get a douche vibe from him though

I can see that ... I still kind of like the principle, though.

23 posted on 04/07/2015 8:05:59 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Be afraid only of thoughtlessness and pusillanimity." ~ Pope John Paul II)
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To: SeekAndFind

Because of affirmative action I suspect and have doubts about any minority medical professional.


24 posted on 04/07/2015 8:57:04 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Boogieman
Yeah, sure. That’s why, when they find skeletal remains, a pathologist can determine the race of the person they belonged to in about 30 seconds. Because it’s all just a construct. /sarc

How black is Black? What is the measure?

Mark Twain exposed the artificiality of race in "Pudd'nhead Wilson". A good read, as are all of Twain's.

25 posted on 04/07/2015 9:40:30 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: Vendome

S okay.

We have a black president who posed as an Indonesian to get into college...


Worse. He had to BE AN INDONESIAN to go to college. He had no usa documentation, but he was an INDONESIAN citizen, so Indonesia most likely paid for his college.


26 posted on 04/07/2015 9:54:17 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Flick Lives

Right, because Mark Twain was a scientist. /sarc


27 posted on 04/07/2015 10:05:55 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: vetvetdoug

“Because of affirmative action I suspect and have doubts about any minority medical professional.”

Not Asians


28 posted on 04/07/2015 10:07:41 AM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: Boogieman
Right, because Mark Twain was a scientist. /sarc

Have you read "Pudd'nhead Wilson"? Do you even know the theme of the book?

Perhaps you could point me toward a scientific description of what constitutes being "Black".

29 posted on 04/07/2015 10:11:31 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: truth_seeker
Not Asians

True, however most Asians didn't have to use affirmative action to be selected and excel in professional schools. There are exceptions but overall, many blacks undeservedly were admitted into professional schools without the proper qualifications, ethics or aptitude (ie the Alan Bakke Case).

30 posted on 04/07/2015 10:34:24 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Flick Lives

“Have you read “Pudd’nhead Wilson”? Do you even know the theme of the book? “

No, but I think it is quite safe to assume it has nothing to do with science or biology.

“Perhaps you could point me toward a scientific description of what constitutes being “Black”.”

No, “black” was never a racial classification, so that literature doesn’t exist.


31 posted on 04/07/2015 10:48:26 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: vetvetdoug

“True, however most Asians didn’t have to use affirmative action to be selected and excel in professional schools. There are exceptions but overall, many blacks undeservedly were admitted into professional schools without the proper qualifications, ethics or aptitude (ie the Alan Bakke Case). “

You don’t need to inform me about Asians. I am in California where Asians and Hispanics both outnumber blacks. Fortunately.

I don’t believe “diversity” is a “compelling state interest.”

My niece just finished her bachelors in just 3 years, and is applying to medical schools. She readily knows she probably won’t get into any of the UC schools, since she is white, and rich.

(And the UC schools are among the very best; Davis, Berkeley, Irvine, UCLA etc.)


32 posted on 04/07/2015 11:18:37 AM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: Boogieman
No, “black” was never a racial classification, so that literature doesn’t exist.

OK. Let me rephrase the question in your terminology. Can you point me toward racial classification definitions in the scientific literature?

33 posted on 04/07/2015 11:56:04 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: SeekAndFind
Once upon a time there was a prestige that attached itself to those with an Ivy League education.
Affirmative Action alone has discredited that notion and taken much of the luster from the Ivy League brand.
As many of these graduates have gone into federal government wherein they have made spectacles of their ignorance, incompetence, and stupidity in the national spotlight they desperately crave, it is a wonder that there are still parents willing to pay the confiscatory tuition these institutions demand to produce such colossal ignoramuses.
34 posted on 04/07/2015 12:40:07 PM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Flick Lives

“Can you point me toward racial classification definitions in the scientific literature?”

Well, there are varying definitions depending on what classification system you are talking about. Here is a good summary about the different kinds of models and their limitations:

http://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/vary_2.htm


35 posted on 04/07/2015 12:55:44 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: truth_seeker

I don’t believe “diversity” is a “compelling state interest.”


I can prove that it is a compelling State interest.

1) The overarching goal of any State is to grow and sustain its power.
2) Christianity puts more value on the individual than on the collective, and especially more than on the State.
3) “Diversity” is really a code word. It doesn’t mean a collection of “diverse” people or ideas. It simply means LESS of the prevailing Christian culture, and fewer Christians (proxied as “white/european”).

Diversity has the goal of reducing Christian philosophy in the society, thereby eliminating values contrary to the growth of the State.


36 posted on 04/07/2015 1:00:05 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Boogieman
Well, there are varying definitions depending on what classification system you are talking about. Here is a good summary about the different kinds of models and their limitations: http://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/vary_2.htm

...from the reference:

Since the number of "races" can be so easily changed by the way they are defined, it is clear that they do not really exist as distinct biological groupings of people. Instead, they are arbitrary creations that reflect our ethnocentric views of ourselves and other people. They are mainly cultural rather than biological groupings.

It's a social construct, much as Twain wittily conveyed as only Twain can, in "Pudd'nhead Wilson". "Pudd'nhead Wilson" was published 1894 and it does a better job blowing up the absurdity of "race" than any other publication I can think of.

37 posted on 04/07/2015 1:58:26 PM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: Flick Lives

“It’s a social construct...”

Funny, then, that pathologists can divine what “social construct” a person belonged to by looking at their skeleton. How do you figure they can do that?


38 posted on 04/07/2015 2:50:33 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: SeekAndFind

bookmark


39 posted on 04/10/2015 9:53:46 AM PDT by Steve0113
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