(Conservative Institute)—Black voters are unquestionably a core constituency of the Democratic Party, and that is bad news for the leading Democrat running to be New York City’s next mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
Some black New Yorkers are reportedly furious over the recent revelation that Mamdani, who was born in Africa of parents from India, once fraudulently claimed that he was “black or African-American” in a college admissions application, the New York Post reported.
If a substantial portion of black New Yorkers maintain that fury and refuse to vote for Mamdani in the general election later this year, that could spell doom for the openly declared democratic socialist’s mayoral ambitions.
Mamdani claimed he was “black” on a college admission application
The New York Times reported this week that, following a recent hack of Columbia University, it was provided with some “internal data” from the Ivy League school about the 2009 admissions application submitted by Mamdani when he was a senior in high school.
In the section of the application that asked about his racial identity, which was a major factor for the university that stridently adhered to affirmative action at the time, Mamdani checked the boxes that said he was “Asian” and “Black of African-American,” though he further explained elsewhere in the application that he was born in Uganda.
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