A leading NYC tabloid newspaper is calling out Bowdoin grad Zohran Mamdani for lying on a competing college’s application by falsely claiming he was black.
The question is whether Mamdani also lied the same year – 2010 – on his application to Bowdoin College to gain an advantage over white candidates.
Mamdani applied to both Bowdoin and Columbia University 15 years ago – but only got in to Bowdoin.
He recently came under fire when it was revealed he checked both “Asian” and “Black or African American” on his failed Columbia application, according to the Post.
He was born in Uganda. Both his parents are of Indian descent. So he’s neither black, nor African American.
When the controversy recently erupted, Mamdani said, “Most college applications don’t have a box for Indian-Ugandans, so I checked multiple boxes trying to capture the fullness of my background.”
Only Mamdani and Bowdoin know whether he made the same bogus triple-ethnicity claims on his Maine college application in an effort to receive a minority preference.
The Maine Wire reached out to both Mamdani and Bowdoin, both of them refusing to comment.
But The Maine Wire, which several times now has reported exclusively on columns that Mamdani wrote for the Bowdoin College student paper while he was at school, has just discovered a 2014 column that Mamdani penned just two weeks before he graduated complaining that “race has gone from being very important in admissions to the same level as one’s state residency or their interview.”
He wrote that the focus on race as a key admissions consideration for Bowdoin had become much less important by the time he graduated than it had been previously.
In the column, Mamdani stops short of disclosing whether on his 2010 Bowdoin application he checked the boxes claiming to be “black” or “African American” or “Asian” – or all three – as he had the same year on his Columbia application.
When he was campaigning last week with Massachusetts Democrat U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Post raised for a second time the issue with his misleading Columbia application.
Mamdani and Warren “share the belief that lying about your ethnicity on your college application is perfectly fine,” the New York paper said.
Its tongue-in-cheek page-one headline was “African American Meets Native American,” with the subhead, “Mamdani And Warren In Liars’ Summit “
“Beyond their liberal politics, Mamdani and Warren also share embarrassing college-related kerfuffles over their backgrounds,” the article noted.
“Warren long faced criticism – and a derogatory nickname, “Pocahontas,” from Donald Trump – for allegedly advancing her career as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard by claiming Cherokee heritage.”
When Mamdani was attending Maine’s ivy-equivalent Bowdoin College from 2010 to 2014, he wrote several columns in the student paper railing against either Jews or ‘white supremacy.’
While at the school, Mamdani co-founded a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.
The Uganda native graduated with a degree in Africana Studies.
Lying on at least one college application has apparently helped put Mamdani in the lead in NYC’s mayoral race.
The latest poll for the November election shows the Bowdoin grad trouncing disgraced former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo by double digits.
Cuomo is running as an independent, having been walloped by Mamdani in the Democrat primary.
