The New York Times dropped a bombshell on New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani yesterday, reporting that the far left socialist identified as black on his application to Columbia University.
Lots of people on Twitter/X were immediately reminded of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who famously identified as a Native American for years, to advance her academic career.
FOX News has details:
NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani identified as Black, Asian on Columbia application: reportZohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, identified as “Black or African American” on his 2009 Columbia University application even though he now says he does not consider himself Black, The New York Times reported Thursday.According to The Times, the internal data came from a leaked database of past Columbia applications which was part of a recent hack targeting the Ivy League school.Mamdani, then a high school senior, also checked “Asian” and reportedly wrote in “Ugandan” in the space for additional background. He was ultimately not accepted to Columbia even though his father is a professor at the elite school.Now 33, Mamdani told The Times he identifies as “an American who was born in Africa,” and said checking multiple boxes was an effort to reflect his “complex background,” not to gain an edge in the competitive admissions process.But at the time, Columbia, like many elite universities, used race-conscious admissions, a system the Supreme Court struck down in 2023.”Even though these boxes are constraining,” Mamdani said, “I wanted my college application to reflect who I was.”Mamdani told The Times that aside from those college forms, he doesn’t recall ever identifying as Black or African American.
This is all just too perfect.
Incumbent NYC Mayor Eric Adams, who is black, has already responded.
The New York Post reports:
Adams demands Columbia release Mamdani’s admission records in which he ID’d himself as Asian and African American: ‘Deeply offensive’Incumbent Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams demanded Columbia University release Zohran Mamdani’s admission records in which the Democratic socialist candidate identified as Asian and African American — before he became a US citizen…Adams was appalled by Mamdani’s actions, especially for skirting around the system in “an insult to every student who got into college the right way.”“The African American identity is not a checkbox of convenience. It’s a history, a struggle and a lived experience. For someone to exploit that for personal gain is deeply offensive,” Hizzoner, who is black, said in a statement.His campaign went a step further, accusing Mamdani of possibly having taken away an admission offer from a true African American applicant.“It’s now clear that Zohran Mamdani misrepresented his racial identity to gain admission to Columbia University, and at the time, he wasn’t even a US citizen. This is not just dishonest — it’s possibly fraudulent. It may have taken a place away from a qualified African American applicant and misused a process designed to correct real, systemic inequities,” campaign spokesperson Todd Shapiro charged in the statement.
In terms of Mamdani’s politics, I’ll leave you with this clip of Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist, appearing on the Ingraham Angle:
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