Ivy Colleges are Betraying America

Columbia U. is fighting efforts by the Trump administrations to make it obey the law. It has billions of dollars, and is run by radical leftists.

The NY Times reports:

Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application

As he runs for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani has made his identity as a Muslim immigrant of South Asian descent a key part of his appeal.

But as a high school senior in 2009, Mr. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, claimed another label when he applied to Columbia University. Asked to identify his race, he checked a box that he was “Asian” but also “Black or African American,” according to internal data derived from a hack of Columbia University that was shared with The New York Times.

Columbia, like many elite universities, used a race-conscious affirmative action admissions program at the time. Reporting that his race was Black or African American in addition to Asian could have given an advantage to Mr. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and spent his earliest years there.

Our greatest assets are being turned over to foreigners who lie on their applications.

Mamdani was just taking advantage of free perks. Blacks complain about being discriminated against, but everyone knows that most of the discrimination is in their favor. Even a teenaged Mamdani knew that claiming to be African-American would get him into Columbia.

Mr. Mamdani’s father was a professor at Columbia at the time his son applied to college and remains so now. Mr. Mamdani has said he never really wanted to go to a university where his father was a professor, and wound up attending Bowdoin College in Maine, where he majored in Africana studies.

Mr. Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, to Mira Nair, an acclaimed film director who grew up in India and later emigrated to the United States, and Mahmood Mamdani, then a college professor at Makerere University. Both his parents are of Indian descent, but his father’s family came to East Africa more than 100 years ago, Mr. Mamdani said.

When asked if any of his family had intermarried while in East Africa, he said in the interview on Thursday, “They’re all of Indian origin, from Gujarat.”

His family moved to New York City around the time Mahmood Mamdani joined the Columbia faculty in 1999. At the time of the move, Mr. Mamdani was 7. He was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2018 and is now a dual citizen of the United States and Uganda.

So he had a quite privileged background. He is not a dual citizen, as USA naturalization requires renouncing foreign allegiances. The fact that he claims Ugandan citizenship should disqualify him from USA political office.

Here is his father's web site:

Mahmood Mamdani

Research Interests
Slavery, Colonialism, Race, Racial Capitalism Empires, States, Sovereignties Institutions, Law, Governmentality

Biography
Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government. He was also professor and executive director of Makerere Institute of Social Research (2010-2022) in Kampala, where he established an inter-disciplinary doctoral program in Social Studies. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1974 and specializes in the study of colonialism, anti-colonialism and decolonisation. His works explore the intersection between politics and culture, a comparative study of colonialism since 1452, the history of civil war and genocide in Africa, the Cold War and the War on Terror, the history and theory of human rights, and the politics of knowledge production.

I wonder how much American tax money is going to support his anti-American politics.

I post this not to expose Mamdani jr. as a bad person. That much is obvious. It is to show how today's elite colleges are anti-American and anti-white, and how all the discrimination is in favor of African-Americans, not against.

Update: The NY Post reports:

Self-described “nepo baby” Zohran Mamdani declared a measly $2,000 in the bank on his latest state disclosures.

That’s despite his privileged upbringing and family money — and an annual salary of $131,000 as a state lawmaker, a job he’s had for five years.

The 33-year-old socialist Democratic nominee for NYC mayor did list one unusual asset — four acres of land in his native Uganda that he acquired about a decade ago, worth between $150,000 and $250,000.

He disclosed no US property or investments on the documents, released by the state this week.

The $2,000 on his form comes from a retirement plan from the housing-focused social-justice organization Chhaya, where he worked briefly as a “foreclosure prevention counselor” in 2019, before he was elected in 2020 to represent Queen’s 36th District in the state Assembly.