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.

Columbia, like many elite universities, used a race-conscious affirmative action admissions program at the time. Reporting that his race was Black or African American in addition to Asian could have given an advantage to Mr. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and spent his earliest years there.

In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Mamdani, 33, said he did not consider himself either Black or African American, but rather “an American who was born in Africa.” He said his answers on the college application were an attempt to represent his complex background given the limited choices before him, not to gain an upper hand in the admissions process. (He was not accepted at Columbia.)

“Most college applications don’t have a box for Indian-Ugandans, so I checked multiple boxes trying to capture the fullness of my background,” said Mr. Mamdani, a state lawmaker from Queens.

The application allowed students to provide “more specific information where relevant,” and Mr. Mamdani said that he wrote in, “Ugandan.”

NY Times Gets Attacked by the Left for Publishing Story About Zohran Mamdani Claiming He Was Black on Columbia University Application

Quote:As you may have noticed, the activist left gets very angry when the media goes after a Democrat that they like. The left simply isn’t used to it, because it almost never happens.

This week, the liberal New York Times dropped a bombshell on NYC communist and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, exposing the fact that he described himself as black on his application to Columbia University.

This outraged a number of people on the left. How dare the New York Times perform an act of journalism that negatively affects their side?!

FOX News reports:

NY Times addresses backlash over report on NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani’s college application

The New York Times seems to be in damage control after the paper’s story about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani identifying as Asian and African American on his college application upset some of its readers, leading to an editor from the outlet attempting to clear up the controversy on social media on Friday.

The article claimed that Mamdani, when asked his race on his 2009 college application to Columbia University, checked the boxes for “Asian” but also “Black or African American,” in their article published on Thursday.

The Times’ assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, Patrick Healy, put out a lengthy statement on X the following day after receiving “reader feedback” on the article…

Mamdani’s application was made available to The Times after a cyberattack on Columbia University in late June led to some of the school’s sensitive information being exposed to the hackers.

Look at the groveling:

The left thinks it has found its new Obama, but Zohran Mamdani would destroy New York City and even the activist reporters at the New York Times know this.

And Elizabeth Warren is a native American.

Prog filth lie. Whats new

Which tells me he's pretty comfortable lying. He can't honestly think he's black.

Profiles in Courage: Hakeem Jeffries Completely Avoids Question on Mamdani's Dubious College Application

Quote:House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is having a rough go of it these days. Since taking over the role in 2023, he has witnessed the loss of the House and the Oval Office and the failure to flip the Senate. He tried to protest against Republicans on the steps of the Capitol in April with his buddy Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), but no one cared and virtually no one showed up. On Thursday, he delivered a mind-numbing eight-hour speech to delay the vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill, only to watch the measure pass soon after he was done droning.

His leadership has many Dems wishing ol' Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) would come back and take the job.

Jeffries’ latest dilemma is how to deal with socialist darling and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who beat former disgraced Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a June primary. Not only has Mamdani exhibited antisemitic tendencies and offered up downright Marxist policy ideas, but he admits that he identified as “Black or African American” and “Asian” on his college app for Columbia University.

Asked directly what he thought of that, the brave minority leader… ducked. He just completely changed the subject. This is what passes as leadership in today’s Democrat party, folks:

Rather than condemn the apparently dishonest act or criticize Mamdani for his earlier refusal to decry the phrase “globalize the intifada,” Jeffries apparently just pulled a section from his eight-hour marathon House speech. MSNBC Host Rev. Al Sharpton asked him, “Is this a real issue to you? Jeffries just brushed right past:

Rather than answering whether it is an issue or commenting on the substance of the story or the criticisms, or even on the publishing of an article based on material obtained by a politically motivated hacker, Jeffries instead offered essentially the same generic response he’s leaned on for most of the controversies surrounding Mamdani.

“I think to me, you know, the issue that we have to deal with in New York City, which our Democratic nominee did talk about extensively during the primary campaign, is affordability,” he said, before going on at length on broad political issues he’s focused on in the city.

Sharpton did not follow-up on the lack of response.

“Sharpton did not follow-up on the lack of response.” Now there’s a stunner for you.

While I heavily criticized "Speaker Emerita" Pelosi in the past, it’s hard not to admit that she was at least good at the job (for Democrats). My guess is that, if she had been asked the same question, she would have appealed to the base and ripped anyone who criticized Mamdani as a racist, and a good portion of her voters would have bought it hook, line, and sinker. I doubt she would have just sidestepped the issue in such an awkward, obvious fashion.

Jeffries is just not up to the job. That being said, conservatives are perfectly happy to see him stay in it for as long as he can and continue to lose on issue after issue.

I disagree here with the mainstream of thought. Dude was from Uganda, and happened to have Indian blood. I know many white South Africans that also would call themselves Africans, vice Europeans, due to their time in the South of Africa,

This Communist clown has enough warts to mar his image, but this should not be one of them. The donks are massive hypocrites when it comes to purely racial identification, and there are some (not many) that can rightfully claim to be Africans and are not black. N. Africa and the descendants of the Boers exactly fit that description.

Defeat this scum on his bad ideas, not his continental identification.

Hakeem Jeffries: The Dial-up Democrat

If you focus really hard you can see the little buffering circle cycle above his head whenever he speaks.

ODUsmitty for the win.

Mamdani is a disaster for NYC in ten thousand different ways. This isn’t one of them.

On the other hand, entirely legit to bash Columbia Univ. (and the academic community overall) for the way it classifies everyone and everything by racial/ethnic categories.

I’m torn about Mamdani.

Part of me wants to see him get elected so every American can see firsthand how quickly socialism, the gateway to communism, can screw up New York City to the point of collapse.

The other part doesn’t want to see NYC destroyed any further than the Leftists have managed to the last few years.

(07-07-2025 09:51 AM)CardinalJim Wrote:  I’m torn about Mamdani.

Part of me wants to see him get elected so every American can see firsthand how quickly socialism, the gateway to communism, can screw up New York City to the point of collapse.

The other part doesn’t want to see NYC destroyed any further than the Leftists have managed to the last few years.

I say destroy NYC. Only way to get through to morons. Better that than the entire country.

Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani: From Stealth Socialism to Open Socialism

Quote:Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani may represent different generations and political climates, but their ideological similarities are striking. Obama embraced a strategy of stealth socialism, while Mamdani champions open socialism. Understanding their trajectories reveals the transformation of American politics over the past two decades.

Those familiar with Barack Obama’s background recognize his ideological roots in radical socialism and Marxist thought. In my 2012 film Dreams from My Real Father, I presented evidence that Obama was radicalized and likely fathered by Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party USA member who raised Obama during his formative years in Hawaii.

WATCH:





When Obama emerged on the national stage in 2007, he masked his socialist ideology. Aware that open socialism would doom his presidential ambitions, he ran as a mainstream candidate.

Obama pledged to uphold the Constitution, supported traditional marriage, and claimed solidarity with Israel.

Yet, Obama’s true convictions would occasionally surface spontaneously, most notably when he spoke of “spreading the wealth around,” proposed a “civilian national security force,” and declared “we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America”.

Once in office, Obama threw his voters under to bus to pursue his socialist agenda that no one voted for.

Enter Zohran Mamdani, a result of a Democrat party political era shaped for years by Barack Obama. At the 2021 Young Democratic Socialists of America conference, he stated, “The purpose of this entire project is not simply to raise class consciousness, but to win socialism… and elect leaders who are unapologetic about our socialism.” Today, unlike Obama, Mamdani feels no need to conceal his socialist ideology.

Let’s look at the many parallels shared by Obama and Mamdani.

Names: Both Obama and Mamdani bear foreign-sounding names unfamiliar to most Americans, symbolizing their outsider identities in U.S. politics. Incidentally, both have first names with two syllables and last names with three.

Early Childhoods: Both Obama and Mamdani experienced cross-cultural childhoods in the Global South. Their early childhoods were shaped by transnational identities that would later influence their radical politics.

Barack Obama’s early childhood was in Indonesia. At age 9 he moved to Hawaii. Mamdani’s early years in Uganda occurred in a postcolonial Africa and were shaped by an Indian diaspora identity. At age five, Mamdani’s family moved to South Africa, and then to the United States at age seven.

Accordingly, both Obama and Mamdani lacked exposure to American civics or free-market principles in their formative years.

Ties to Islam: Obama’s school records in Indonesia list Islam as his religion. Obama’s stepfather was Muslim, and he studied in Pakistan during his junior year in college (later obscured by Obama in his memoir). When running for president in 2007, Obama told the New York Times that the Muslim call to prayer was “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth.” Mamdani’s heritage is rooted in the Indian Muslim diaspora in East Africa. Though he rarely speaks publicly about Islam, his support for radical Islamic causes is evident.

Black Identity: Obama, who did not grow up in a black American community, and had no common experience with Black Americans. Seeking political support, Obama invented racial incidences in his memoir to try to impress Black voters who were skeptical about his Black authenticity.

Mamdani similarly sought to benefit from racial identity politics, checking both “Black or African American” and “Asian” on his Columbia University application.

Radical Party Affiliations: Obama was affiliated in the 1990s with the New Party in Chicago, a progressive coalition founded by activists from the Democratic Socialists of America. Records indicate he signed a membership contract and received the party’s endorsement. Obama simply denied involvement when running for president.

Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist like Bernie Sanders, joined the Democratic Socialists of America in 2017. Mamdani also ran on the socialist Working Families Party ballot and received their official endorsement for the 2025 NYC mayoral general election.

Like Obama, Mandani moved to the Democrat party ticket to seek higher office.

Position on Israel: As president, Obama’s record on Israel included repeated pressure on Israel to create a Palestinian state, and a cold relationship with Prime Minister Netanyahu. Obama famously boycotted a speech that Netanyahu gave to Congress on March 3, 2015 and declined to meet with Netanyahu during his U.S. visit. Obama’s Iran deal (JCPOA) would have allowed Iran to achieve nuclear weapons capability within a decade.

At Bowdoin College, Mamdani co-founded a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, a group known for anti-Israel activism. He has introduced legislation to defund entities supporting Israeli settlements and was arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest in 2023. Mamdani supports the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and has called for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Socialist Policies: Obama sought to restructure American health care through the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Though marketed by Obama as simple reform, it marked a step toward government-managed health care.

Mamdani openly advocates radical socialist polices, including seizing the means of production, establishing government-run grocery stores, taxing white people more, freezing rents, abolishing billionaires, and defunding the police.

Presidential Ambitions: Mamdani cannot run for president. Having been born in Uganda, he is ineligible under the Constitution’s “natural born citizen” clause. However, some believe that didn’t stop Barack Obama from running for president.

While Barack Obama went to great lengths to deny and disguise his socialism, Obama largely transformed the Democrat party into the radical socialist party it is today. Even long time liberals like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Shumer adopted Obama’s socialist agenda, paving the way for open socialist Zohran Mamdani and others like him to unapologetically push radical socialist agendas.

Even Bernie Sanders, once seen as a fringe oddball, is now an icon of the Democratic Party. His former campaign staffers, such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, now help steer the party’s direction. The Democrat party’s evolution from Obama’s stealth socialism to Mamdani’s candid radical socialism marks an ominous shift in American politics.

If Mamdani wins the mayor’s office in New York City as expected, private investment could begin to retreat, wary of policies that challenge profit motives and property rights. Real estate development might slow, as rent controls and free public housing mandates expand. High earners and businesses could seek friendlier tax climates in Florida and elsewhere, leading to a shrinking tax base. Over time, New York City services could bust under the weight of Mamdani’s redistributive programs, as ideological goals outweigh practical governance – a repeat of the historic results of socialist policies.

The Apple Does Not Fall Far from the Tree: Father of NYC Commie Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Is a Whitey-Hating, BLM-Loving Lunatic

Quote:New York City leftists stunned the Democrat Party elites when they nominated radical communist Zohran Mamdani as their party’s candidate for Mayor of New York City.

Mamdani won the Democrat primary after former Governor Andrew Cuomo initially withdrew from the race on election night in June.

Zohran is a self-described socialist with radical ideas and an apparent hatred for Israel. Mamdani has proposed free universal child care, creating city-run grocery stores, rolling out free bus service, and freezing rents on rent-stabilized units.

These policies have failed whenever they have been enacted by a wild-eyed communist.

But Zohran is clearly the face of the new Democrat Party, a party determined to take down and destroy America once and for all.

Now, new video was discovered of Zohran Mamdani’s father and it is not hard to see where Zohran learned all of his hateful, communist dogma.

Zohran’s father in one video that surfaced recently and was posted online by Maze bloviates on how the Nazis and Allies had the same goal, how Abe Lincoln was Hitler’s inspiration, and how white people are the oppressors and America is the root of all evil.

Now we know where Zohran gets all of his hateful rhetoric from.

Here is Zohran’s father Mahmood Mamdani, an “educator,” spouting off his anti-American hate..

Mahmood Mamdani: The Nazi political project was shared by the Allies, and that political project was to turn Germany into a pure nation, a pure nation rid of its minorities. When the Allies defeated the Nazis and went into Eastern Europe, they began to create pure nations to ethnically cleanse Eastern Europe of Germans, move them back into Germany. One crime doesn’t wipe out another.

A Christian nation state decides to clean it of all religious minorities, Jews and Muslims in particular, and at the same time launches a colonization experience. Experiment, the discovery of the Americas. I argue that nationalism and colonialism are not two different things. America is the genesis of what we call settler colonialism. The American model was exported all around the world.

In America, you have two kinds of minorities that have run the course of the history of the modern American state, the American Indian and the African American. Each has a different significance for our contemporary era. The American Indians were the people on that land when the settlers conquered it. First, they tried to eliminate as many Indians as possible. This was the first recorded genocide in modern history. Then, with the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations. They herded American Indians into separate territories.

For the Nazis, this was the inspiration. Hitler realized two things. One, that genocide was doable. It is possible to do genocide. That’s what Hitler realized. The second thing Hitler realized was that you don’t have to have a common citizenship. You can differentiate between people. The Nuremberg laws were patterned after American laws.

Anyway, the US put Indians in reservations. The US invented the model, what we call today the two-state solution. The American state, and alongside it, several protectorates with degrees of autonomy but no independence. It has had its own effect, and we will realize the effect if we contrast it with what happened to the African Americans, because the African Americans were not put in a separate state. The African Americans were part of the one-state solution. They were oppressed terribly within a single state. But the thing is that the American Indians, by being put in separate states, were perpetually fragmented, isolated. Up to today, the African Americans, are horribly oppressed, but had the possibility of building alliances with other oppressed peoples.

We have a history of the same hundreds of years which have brought us to the point where we are with Black Lives Matter, which are at the forefront of progressive struggles in the US.

And daddy Mamdani obviously hates Christians too.

This explains junior’s belief system – he formed it from his father’s lectures.

Video via Maze.

Maze added: He sent his son to a 50k a year private elementary school in NYC. Now he preaches about how bad America is. So cliche.

FYI – Here is the full video of Mamdani delivering his hateful remarks in 2022.

(07-06-2025 03:00 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Which tells me he's pretty comfortable lying. He can't honestly think he's black.

Okay, so this should be a very simple question, are you only African if you are black? Are white people who were born in South Africa not actually African?

(07-07-2025 03:38 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(07-06-2025 03:00 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Which tells me he's pretty comfortable lying. He can't honestly think he's black.

Okay, so this should be a very simple question, are you only African if you are black? Are white people who were born in South Africa not actually African?

Depends who you ask, I've certainly got in trouble on that one.

(07-07-2025 10:04 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(07-07-2025 09:51 AM)CardinalJim Wrote:  I’m torn about Mamdani.

Part of me wants to see him get elected so every American can see firsthand how quickly socialism, the gateway to communism, can screw up New York City to the point of collapse.

The other part doesn’t want to see NYC destroyed any further than the Leftists have managed to the last few years.

I say destroy NYC. Only way to get through to morons. Better that than the entire country.

I watched Escape from NY this weekend just b/c...

equilibrium in real estate is coming for the urban centers...

think about this ... it was DJT '16 that let the 10K Salt ... now it's 40k in the OBBB...

yeah, I don't think folk truly realize that real estate is what truly drives our economy...

the tectonic shift is now in play...

(07-07-2025 04:18 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

(07-07-2025 03:38 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(07-06-2025 03:00 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Which tells me he's pretty comfortable lying. He can't honestly think he's black.

Okay, so this should be a very simple question, are you only African if you are black? Are white people who were born in South Africa not actually African?

Depends who you ask, I've certainly got in trouble on that one.

In trouble how?