New York Times Responds After Zohran Mamdani Story Stirs Liberal Backlash

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10. However there is an apparent attempt to "spin it"

as if he was "falsifying" the record and reporting himself as being "black" because of the selection of "African American".

And as I noted in the OP comments, it underscores the idiocy of the classification system that was put in place here in the U.S. where at different points in this country's history, there were continually-changing criteria including the "One drop rule", as well as whatever the Census Bureau decided to do during each decennial census, with constantly-changing racial criteria depending on "the era".

I.e., you had this kind of nonsense going on (example from 1930 taken from here - https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2015/06/11/chapter-1-race-and-multiracial-americans-in-the-u-s-census/) -



From the same source, the one in 1860 -



The famous "Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)", where the plaintiff Homer Plessy was an "octoroon" (1/8th black), but was still considered "black", became the epitome of highlighting the insanity while imposing "separate but equal" as "the law of the land" (through the Supreme Court).

The RW loons have been attempting to "erase" all of this history and claim that we need to "start from scratch". Well, 249 years of this has done its damage and it can't suddenly be "erased" and disregarded as if it didn't happen, because it has been "culturally" (and "legally" ) absorbed into the very fabric of this nation's identity. It has impacted those who have been here for many generations and established their status in the nation's economic and social "hierarchy".

The newer immigrants have little or no idea about this history in this country, but are finding out real quick how things "change".