Mamdani lied that he was Black to get into Columbia, but it didn’t work (even though father was on faculty)

Asked to identify his race, he checked a box that he was “Asian” but also “Black or African American.”

By Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage Magazine

I’m not sure what’s funnier.

That Zohran Mamdani lied to Columbia University that he was black to get in and that it didn’t work.

Or that his leftist supporters now have to redefine African-American to mean anyone born in Africa. Including Elon Musk. Playing into every joke about affirmative action.

But the funniest or saddest thing may be that 2009 Columbia University had higher standards than the 2025 New York Democratic Party.

Considering that Mahmood Mamdani, Zohran’s father, was on the Columbia faculty, the New York Dem Party’s pick for mayor’s decision to lie that he was black was quite stupid.

And I think there are good odds that they would have run these applications past someone black who wasn’t going to buy Zohran as a black man.

That may help explain why Zohran didn’t get in. That or his grades were truly horrendous.

Considering that Zohran Mamdani is already doing poorly with black people, and he’s running against a black candidate, this can’t help.

Still he and his people are vocally insisting that marking himself as ‘African/Black’ was fine.

Asked to identify his race, he checked a box that he was “Asian” but also “Black or African American.”

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.”

Mamdani only got citizenship fairly recently, so neither the American nor the African part are true. He was a Muslim from the Indian subcontinent who happened to be born in Africa.

And no one believes he was stupid enough to think that checking the “Black or African American” box was fine or that he had a ‘Ugandan’ background after his people were kicked out.

Still the Left is going to now argue that Mamdani really is African-American.

Between him, Rachel Dolezal, Shaun King and Kamala Harris, Black Power isn’t what it used to be.