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Democratic candidate for the Mayor of New York City, Zohan Mamdani, was recognized as “Black or African American” on his 2009 Columbia University application, even if he now says that he now says that he does not consider himself black, New York Times reported Thursday.
According to The Times, internal data came from a leaked database of previous Columbia applications that recently part of Hack that targeted the Ivy League School.
Mamdani, then senior from a high school, also examined “Asian” and allegedly wrote in “Uganda” in space for additional background. He was eventually not accepted in Colombia, even though his father is a professor at Elite School.
Now 33, Mammadani told the Times that he identified as “an American born in Africa, and said that checking several boxes was an attempt to reflect his” complex background “, not to gain an edge in the competitive admission process.
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Students are seen in the campus of Columbia University on 14 April 2025 in New York City. (Charlie Tribalu/AFP through Getty Image)
But at that time, Colombia, like many elite universities, used awareness of breed, a system that was killed in the Supreme Court 2023.
Mamdani said, “Even if these boxes are forced,”
Mammadani told The Times that apart from those college forms, he never remembers by identifying as black or African Americans.
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New York Mayorle candidate, State Rape. Zoharan Mamdani talks to supporters during an election night meeting. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Both his parents belong to the Indian dynasty. His father, Professor Mahmood Mamdani of Colombia, has lived in East Africa for generations, but Mamdani said that there was no contradiction in the family with indigenous African groups.
Mamdani has bowed to her South Asian and Muslim identity at the mark of the campaign. During the June 1 speech at the National Action Network of Al Sharpton, he also emphasized his African roots: “I was born in Kampala, Uganda … I was given my middle name, Quame by my father, who named me after the first Prime Minister of Ghana.”
President Donald Trump brought Mamdani to a rally on Wednesday, saying that if he intervened in immigration laws, “we have to arrest him.”
During a campaign program at Nan House of Justice in Harlem Neberhood, New York on Saturday, June 28, June 28, 2025, New York City Mayor candidate, Zoharan Mamdani. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Image)
Trump said, “Look, we do not need a communist in this country, but if we have one, I am looking very carefully from the nation.”
A self-evident democratic socialist mammadani dismissed the comment, accusing Trump, “tried to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadow: If you speak, they will come for you. We will not accept this intimidation.”
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