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Mamdani Identified as Asian and Black on College Application

VySky

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We have another Pocahontas Sen Warren striker on our hands. Mamdani lied on his college application. Reminds me of the woman who was head of the NAACP who claimed to be black but is white as snow.

Or Senator Warren claiming to be American Indian

How come no one ever lies on their college application pretending to be white?

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Mamdani Identified as Asian and Black on College Application

4 min readDemocratic socialist New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim immigrant, identified as both Asian and African American on his Columbia University application, a report claims. The 33-year-old checked both “Asian” and “Black or African American” on his application to...
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And this news is not going over with........ well........ real black folk in New York.


Black New Yorkers slam Zohran Mamdani over race claims on his college application​



 
ElChupacabra said:
Oh, you mean Adams whose running against him decided to make this a thing?
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Adams who is a black man.

Black New Yorkers rage over Zohran Mamdani’s ‘African American’ claim: ‘He’s a fraud’​


A slew of black Big Apple residents fumed Friday over mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani’s claim on an Ivy League college application that he is African American — with them raging the socialist pol is a “fraud” and “trickster.”

“He’s just trying to get over,” an 86-year-old Harlem resident, identifying herself only as Marjorie, said of Mamdani, a socialist of Asian Indian descent.

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Zohran Mamdani checked off “African American” as well as “Asian” on his Columbia University application in 2009, leading to controversy.AFP via Getty Images
“You can look at him and see he’s not” black, she said. “Absolutely not.

Black New Yorkers rage over Zohran Mamdani’s ‘African American’ claim: ‘He’s a fraud’

A slew of black Big Apple residents fumed Friday over mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani’s claim on an Ivy League college application that he is African American.
nypost.com
 
VySky said:
Adams who is a black man.
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He is indeed, and is also running against Mamdani. The answer Mamdani provided made it clear what his thought process was, and he is an African in much the same way white South Africans are Africans too. Or do you think only black people are Africans?
 
Adams is just one voice. But you hold onto that.
 
NatMorton said:
In the spirit of enlightened progressivism, can't we just let the poor man identify as black?

Mamdani, in the 'hood.
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That's not what he was trying to do, per his response. He was born and lived in Africa (Uganda and S.Africa) until he was 7. Granted, his selection was a clumsy way of trying to add his African heritage to his application, but there's nothing indicating he was trying to identify as black.
 
Considering his cratering support already among blacks, this wont help.

Not only did he claim to support them that they utterly rejected. He also claimed to be black.

Zohran Mamdani Rejected by the Black and Poor Voters He Claims to Represent​


"Although he was the socialist, anti-Zionist candidate for mayor of America’s financial capital and the most Jewish city in the country, Zohran Mamdani didn’t really campaign on those issues. Sure, he’d let the mask slip on occasion -- blaming the Jews for their slaughter on October 7, for example, or allowing himself to ponder the penumbra of innocuous meaning within the phrase “Globalize the Intifada.” But for the most part, he styled himself as champion of two underserved groups of New Yorkers: black residents and the poor."


Zohran Mamdani Rejected by the Black and Poor Voters He Claims to Represent | National Review

The people who believe they will experience the full brunt of Mamdani’s policies aren’t buying it. That should tell us something.
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Go ahead and believe that. He was trying to get over on the system.
 

Another thread that belongs in the "bias in media" category. While the title claims people are complaining, and quotes a few people doing that, the article also includes people who are fine with it.
 
ElChupacabra said:
I will, thanks, and along with the other numpties who are trying to make this a thing; it's quite comical.
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From the link I left from the Hill.

Like I said, he was trying to get over on the system.

"This matters, of course, because at the time he applied to Columbia, the university practiced race-conscious admissions, which is a politically correct way of saying that they actively discriminated against certain applicants on the basis of race and in favor of others: Hispanic people, Black people, Native Americans, and so on."
 
He's not black. The question is not one of nationality. It's about ethnicity. If it were nationality, 98% of black Americans today would need to classify themselves differently since they too were not born in Africa.
 
j brown's body said:
Another thread that belongs in the "bias in media" category. While the title claims people are complaining, and quotes a few people doing that, the article also includes people who are fine with it.
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People who want to climb on the backs of what blacks suffered through so they could get over. Yes, says a lot about those who are "fine with it".
 
NatMorton said:
He's not black. The question is not one of nationality. It's about ethnicity. If it were nationality, 98% of black Americans today would need to classify themselves differently since they too were not born in Africa.
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He is not, which is why I stated his selection was a clumsy way for him to address his nationality. Perhaps we need a "African (Black)/African (non Black)" category.
 
I think if this is the type of thing his opponents are focusing on, then Mamdani's campaign is probably loving it.

Even if he did it intentionally and maliciously and did not even have the explanation of having lived in Africa, is this really something that anybody should care about when it comes to voting for a person for office, especially post primary? Ask yourself, if Trump, or any other candidate you did support intentionally checked the wrong box at age 18 in a similar form, would that cause you to not vote for him or instead to vote for someone with completely different positions? Would you really even care?

I'm somewhat burnt out on electoral politics at the moment and have not followed this race particularly closely, but my understanding is that there are plenty of positions that Mamdani has that could be focused on instead by his opponents.
 
ElChupacabra said:
He is not, which is why I stated his selection was a clumsy way for him to address his nationality. Perhaps we need a "African (Black)/African (non Black)" category.
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"Clumsy" reads like a euphemism.

Would you be okay with "dishonest" or "hypocritical?"
 

"The revelation is likely to have reverberations that affect Mamdani's chances at winning in a general election."

"In the Democratic primary, main challenger Andrew Cuomo did far better in black and Hispanic sections of the city, while Mamdani tended to do better in white areas."


 
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