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Related: About this forumMamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application
Posting in the African American forum.July 3, 2025
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.. . . When asked if any of his family had intermarried while in East Africa, he said in the interview on Thursday, Theyre all of Indian origin, from Gujarat.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/nyregion/mamdani-columbia-black-application.html
There's no complexity in a college applications asking for racial identity. Their not asking about geographic birth places. We wouldn't accept white people claiming their part of a tribe because a state they were born in was tribal land.
I'm really tired of having to take theses insults. Same as Musk calling himself African American. Mamdani needs to apologize as he's on his way to lose the black vote in the general like he lost it in the primary.
From this crap to black face. I don't see how these politicians run with this BS in their past. I'm sure it'll be excused.

Lovie777
(19,320 posts)India is part of Asia, Uganda is part of Africa.
rogue emissary
(3,289 posts)rogue emissary
(3,289 posts)SSJVegeta
(1,117 posts)...on anything. Which it clearly doesnt.
SSJVegeta
(1,117 posts)
He is Indian heritage from Uganda (which is Africa)
rogue emissary
(3,289 posts)SSJVegeta
(1,117 posts)AA is an ethnicity not a race. Black is a race.
rogue emissary
(3,289 posts)SSJVegeta
(1,117 posts)He did not say he is black
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SSJVegeta
(1,117 posts)If they were interchangeable, both words wouldn't be a selection
JustAnotherGen
(35,625 posts)The Black American identification is critical.
Elon Musk could claim African American and take things from us. So could Peter Thiel.
They both are garbage and need to be run out of America by Black Americans.
serbbral
(328 posts)Rogue Emissary, I agree with you that it is somewhat deceptive. If I am not mistaken, the application inquired about his race or ethnicity, not his country of origin. Why would he add Black/African American? If I were Indian or Southeast Asian, that would have been the only thing I would have checked.
IbogaProject
(4,634 posts)If one was born in Florida they could claim they were American, and if they were born on a Seminole reservation in Florida they could say "they were from Florida". This is a smear campaign being waged by the media who are in the pockets of big financial firms and in the print media Big landlords.
DarthDem
(5,402 posts)His parents were each born in India and he was born in Africa. For checking an ambiguous box as a young person, it sounds like he did just fine.
rogue emissary
(3,289 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(25,288 posts)Crémieux is Jordan Lasker, a eugenicist "race scientist" who argues that race determine IQ.
rogue emissary
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WhiskeyGrinder
(25,288 posts)JustAnotherGen
(35,625 posts)Black is Black in America.
If I had my way - as a group host - this would be name the Black American Group.
Full Stop - It is a RACE and a CULTURE. It is an EXPERIENCE. He might very well have taken Financial Aid or a placement from the Descendants of Jim Crow and the Enslaved.
Is that fair? Nope.
Will be addressing in another post.
OP - I've removed the poster from this Group. I won't tolerate bullshit 'semantics' from folks who are not aware of this Massive Shift in Black American Consciousness. The same ones who don't understand why we are the FASTEST growing group of Gun Owners in America, and the overwhelming increase in Black Gun Clubs across the USA.