New York City may be too blue for it to matter, but the hits keep on coming for Zohran Mamdani. The self-avowed communist who stated that the "end goal is seizing the means of production" is now caught up in a race admissions scandal stretching back to when he applied for Columbia University.
Mamdani, a 33-year-old from a wealthy background who has never held a real job, is currently the frontrunner to become mayor of America's largest city after he defeated Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic Party primary. But while he's clearly of Asian descent, he once marked his race as "Black or African-American" on a college admissions form in what was likely a bid to up his chances of entry.
Perhaps he learned that trick from Elizabeth Warren?
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Democratic socialist New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim immigrant, identified as both Asian and African American on his Columbia University application, a report claims.
The 33-year-old checked both “Asian” and “Black or African American” on his application to the Ivy League university — which was ultimately rejected — when he was a high school senior in 2009, the New York Times reported Thursday.
That was originally reported by The New York Times, which predictably tried to gloss over the controversy by claiming Mamdani's background includes "complexities" because he was born in Uganda. Does that make sense, though? For example, the checkboxes were for race, not place of birth. How many Asians who were born in Africa do you know who claim their race as African-American? Claiming that culturally would be a different matter, but again, that wasn't the question being asked.
There's also one huge flaw in the defenses being offered for Mamdani: When he marked he was African-American, he wasn't...an American.
Zohran Mamdani claimed he was Black on his college application. Now he says it was because he’s “African-American” since he was born in Uganda.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) July 3, 2025
One problem: he wasn’t even a U.S. citizen at the time.
Either way, it’s fraud. pic.twitter.com/J4N3bGzGMz
Let's do a thought experiment here. What would happen if Elon Musk had stated his race as "Black or African-American" on a college admission form, or in any other context? Do you think maybe The New York Times would be just a bit tougher on him than they are on Mamdani? Would the mainstream press handwave it away as a harmless issue of complexity, given Musk was born in South Africa? Or would they treat it as a scandal? We all know the answer. We've already had a newscycle centering on how "African" Musk is, and shock of shocks, the press wasn't shy about denouncing any attempt to describe him as African-American.
This “it’s fine that non-black Zohran Mamdani claimed his race was African-American” news cycle is going to he hilarious. pic.twitter.com/2rbbhJ8XQP
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) July 4, 2025
We need to get updates from all the people who wrote on the Elon Musk meme pic.twitter.com/sIN6wxKdcb
— Jeff (@blahEhhGee) July 4, 2025
Meanwhile, because this is the internet, there's always a tweet.
*chefs kiss* https://t.co/jAEqRnLq9d pic.twitter.com/qDAANrQyqD
— John Hasson (@SonofHas) July 4, 2025
With all that said, there's another pretty big issue here. How in the world did Mamdani not get into Columbia after marking himself as black and his father being a professor there?
Wait. Stop. Zohran Mamdani went to Bronx Science (one of the country's top HS's), self-identified as African American on his app, had a parent who was a professor at Columbia, and STILL DIDN'T GET IN??
— daniela (@daniela__127) July 3, 2025
I need to see his SAT scores. I just became a Zohran Mamdani SAT truther. pic.twitter.com/As0wLMXys3
In other words, New York City is on the verge of electing a communist and race-grifter who wasn't even smart enough to get into the school his father taught at. So yeah, things are going great over in the Big Apple. Good luck.
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