Zohran Mamdani Caught in a Race Admissions Scandal After Claiming to Be 'Black'
By Bonchie | 9:33 AM on July 04, 2025
New York City may be too blue for it to matter, but the hits keep on coming for Zohran Mamdani. The self-avowed communist who stated that the "end goal is seizing the means of production" is now caught up in a race admissions scandal stretching back to when he applied for Columbia University.
Mamdani, a 33-year-old from a wealthy background who has never held a real job, is currently the frontrunner to become mayor of America's largest city after he defeated Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic Party primary. But while he's clearly of Asian descent, he once marked his race as "Black or African-American" on a college admissions form in what was likely a bid to up his chances of entry.
Perhaps he learned that trick from Elizabeth Warren?
Democratic 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 the Ivy League university — which was ultimately rejected — when he was a high school senior in 2009, the New York Times reported Thursday.
That was originally reported by The New York Times, which predictably tried to gloss over the controversy by claiming Mamdani's background includes "complexities" because he was born in Uganda. Does that make sense, though? For example, the checkboxes were for race, not place of birth. How many Asians who were born in Africa do you know who claim their race as African-American? Claiming that culturally would be a different matter, but again, that wasn't the question being asked.
There's also one huge flaw in the defenses being offered for Mamdani: When he marked he was African-American, he wasn't...an American.
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