Well, well, well, it seems Zohran Mamdani tried to game the system his leftist komrades created.
On July 3, 2025, the New York Times (NY Times) reported that on his 2009 application to Columbia University, Mamdani identified his “ethnicity/race” as both “Asian” and “Black or African American” despite the objective fact that both his mother and father are Indian. So, what gives?
Everyone knows what gives. Mamdani lied in order to take advantage of the racial bigotry in DEI-infected admissions offices at secular colleges and universities. But that’s not how Mamdani is trying to spin his race scam.
When confronted by the NY Times about his ruse, Mamdani explained,
[H]e 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.
No way, no how was truthteller Mamdani trying to gain an upper hand. Nuh-uh. It was his historical complexity he wanted to make sure was known.
He was born in Uganda where his Indian father, Mahmoud Mamdani, was working. During that time, Zohran remained Indian. At age five, his family moved to South Africa for two years where Zohran remained Indian. At age seven, the mobile Mamdani family moved to the United States, where Zohran still remained Indian, that is, until 2009 when he suddenly became part black.
I guess that makes my son-in-law who was born in Thailand where his parents were missionaries part Thai.
Being merely born in Uganda would not have carried quite the weight with admissions counselors as having black or African American blood coursing through his Indian veins. Perhaps Zohran learned a trick from race-appropriator Elizabeth Warren who bears an even worse disadvantage: having ghostly white skin and blue eyes.
Not even his race ruse could lift lightweight Zohran over the admissions goal post. He was rejected by Columbia where his father was and remains a faculty member. Not to worry, Zohran told the NY Times that “he never really wanted to go to a university where his father was a professor.” Riiight.
The NY Times is now catching flak from its commie readers who want Mamdani elected at all costs. There is no price too high when it comes to electing leftists. Integrity schmintegrity.
This raises the question, why did the NY Times publish a story that it and its readers would prefer buried?
The answer to this question makes the story about the story delicious.
According to the news website Semafor,
The [NY Times] believed it had reason to push the story out quickly: It did not want to be scooped by the independent journalist Christopher Rufo.
Decisions, decisions: Bury a story that if exposed will hurt far-leftist dream mayoral candidate and enrage his commie allies or be scooped by thorn-in-its-side conservative journalist Rufo, which would make the NY Times look stupid and partisan—again. In the end, fear and loathing of Rufo won.
In addition to promising rent control, government-owned grocery stores, publicly funded “trans” mal-treatment for minors, “free public transit, free college tuition, more public housing, sweeping debt cancellation and massive overhauls of systems … all paid for by huge tax increases,” Mamdani is a liar.
In a wiser cultural time, Zohran Mamdani’s self-serving dishonesty, plopped atop his steaming pile of policy positions, would convince NYC voters to reject him.
Hope springs eternal.