July 04, 2025
Momdani Checked All the Boxes
Timothy Birdnow
Rules are SO for the Bourgeoisie!
Mamdani lied on Columbia application, claimed to be black
FTA:
In anyone else I would say it was praiseworthy that he doesn't consider himself anything but an American. Sadly he's not a man who seems much interested in BEING an American.
No,I suspect he was just pulling out all the stops to gain acceptance to an elite college (itself an unworthy goal, if you ask me - the elite colleges are the root of our problems.)
Years ago there was a big stink over a white South African immigrant to the U.S. putting down on his college application he was "African American". The school kicked him out when they realized he was a WHITE African American; can't have that!
That is the trouble with basing this on so nebulous a distinction as race; most people have an admixture of blood, and many are they who look white but have native American or Oriental (I hate the phrase "Asian" as all three major racial groups cohabit the continent of Asia) or even black. Many more blacks have Caucasian blood (like Barack Obama). Basically, at this point, there are few who cannot claim some minority blood.
That's why trying to give a leg up to "minorities" is silly; who qualifies? The confederates all accused Abraham Lincoln of having "negro" blood. There were those who accused Adolph Hitler of being part Jewish. And you know what? They might well have been. Who cares? It shouldn't be about your ancestry anyway. (Granted, it's too bad Hitler didn't embrace his potential Jewishnes - he would have been a much better person and would have wound up perhaps being a force for great good in the world rather than monster he became.)
At any rate it's not really about what some kid did in high school so much as about the rank hypocrisy of the Left and how rules only apply to others. They always exempt themselves from the rules they impose. And they do that because in their hearts they believe they are better than the rest of us.
Rules are SO for the Bourgeoisie!
Mamdani lied on Columbia application, claimed to be black
FTA:
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.
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.
In anyone else I would say it was praiseworthy that he doesn't consider himself anything but an American. Sadly he's not a man who seems much interested in BEING an American.
No,I suspect he was just pulling out all the stops to gain acceptance to an elite college (itself an unworthy goal, if you ask me - the elite colleges are the root of our problems.)
Years ago there was a big stink over a white South African immigrant to the U.S. putting down on his college application he was "African American". The school kicked him out when they realized he was a WHITE African American; can't have that!
That is the trouble with basing this on so nebulous a distinction as race; most people have an admixture of blood, and many are they who look white but have native American or Oriental (I hate the phrase "Asian" as all three major racial groups cohabit the continent of Asia) or even black. Many more blacks have Caucasian blood (like Barack Obama). Basically, at this point, there are few who cannot claim some minority blood.
That's why trying to give a leg up to "minorities" is silly; who qualifies? The confederates all accused Abraham Lincoln of having "negro" blood. There were those who accused Adolph Hitler of being part Jewish. And you know what? They might well have been. Who cares? It shouldn't be about your ancestry anyway. (Granted, it's too bad Hitler didn't embrace his potential Jewishnes - he would have been a much better person and would have wound up perhaps being a force for great good in the world rather than monster he became.)
At any rate it's not really about what some kid did in high school so much as about the rank hypocrisy of the Left and how rules only apply to others. They always exempt themselves from the rules they impose. And they do that because in their hearts they believe they are better than the rest of us.
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I read an article a couple months ago that suggested (not accused) that Lincoln was at least part Jewish. Since this would be the first we're hearing of it, it's probably not true.
So Mamdani is afflicted with Elizabeth Warren Syndrome? That illness that makes you believe you're something you're not? We all could have fun with this one, could we not?
So Mamdani is afflicted with Elizabeth Warren Syndrome? That illness that makes you believe you're something you're not? We all could have fun with this one, could we not?
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 05, 2025 12:28 AM (HDwJ2)
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We could indeed Dana.
Yeah; I was thinking about Warren, or Rachel Dolezol, the white chick who got a spray-on tan and corn rolls and prettended to be a black woman. Funny how often liberals cheat on identity politics.
Yeah; I was thinking about Warren, or Rachel Dolezol, the white chick who got a spray-on tan and corn rolls and prettended to be a black woman. Funny how often liberals cheat on identity politics.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at July 05, 2025 08:09 AM (WXgg0)
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