New York City mayor Mamdani was determined as black in the Colombia application

Zahran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for the mayor of New York City, is known as a “black or African American” in the 2009 Columbia University application, although he now says he does not consider himself black, The New York Times reported Thursday.

According to the Times, the internal data came from a database that was leaked to the previous Colombia applications that were part of the last penetration targeting Ivy League School.

Mamdani, who was then a senior high school, examined “Asian” and according to what he wrote in “Uganda” in space for an additional background. He was not acceptable in Colombia in the end, although his father is a professor at the Elite School.

Now 33, Mamdani Times told “an American born in Africa”, and said that checking multiple funds was an attempt to reflect his “complex background”, and not to gain a feature in the competitive acceptance process.

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But at the time, Colombia, like many elite universities, used conscious acceptance of the race, a system that the Supreme Court dropped in 2023.

“Although these boxes are restricted, I wanted to reflect the application of the college who I am.”

Mamdani told the Times that regardless of these forms of college, he does not remember that by the black American or Africans.

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His parents are both Indian origin. His father, Professor of Colombia, Mahmoud Mamdani, lived in East Africa for generations, but Mamdani said that there was no marriage in the family with original African groups.

Mamdani bowed to his identity in South Asia and Muslim on the path of the campaign. During a speech in the month of June in the National Work Network for Cherpton, he also emphasized its African roots: “I was born in Kampala, Uganda … I got my middle name, Kwami, by my father, who was called the first Prime Minister of Ghana.”

President Donald Trump Mamdani grew up in a march on Wednesday, saying that if he interfered in the immigration laws, “We will have to arrest him.”

“Look, we do not need a communist in this country, but if we have one, I will watch them very carefully on behalf of the nation,” Trump added.

Mamdani, self -defined Democratic SocialismThe notes refused, accusing Trump of “an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shade: If you are talking, you will come for you. We will not accept this intimidation.”

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