New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani has already faced significant pushback — including from within the Democratic Party — after winning the party’s recent primary race against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
But the scandals keep coming for the self-avowed socialist, including reports that he identified as both Black and Asian when applying to Columbia University about 16 years ago. Ultimately, he wasn’t accepted to the Ivy League school.
Initial reports indicate that the application resurfaced when hackers targeted the university’s database.
Mamdani, who now insists that he doesn’t consider himself to be Black, is now trying to explain away his decision to check that box on his application, as Fox News reported:
Now 33, Mamdani told The Times he identifies as “an American who was born in Africa,” and said checking multiple boxes was an effort to reflect his “complex background,” not to gain an edge in the competitive admissions process.
ADVERTISEMENTBut at the time, Columbia, like many elite universities, used race-conscious admissions, a system the Supreme Court struck down in 2023.
“Even though these boxes are constraining,” Mamdani said, “I wanted my college application to reflect who I was.”
Mamdani told The Times that aside from those college forms, he doesn’t recall ever identifying as Black or African American.
Of course, among those concerned about the direction of the nation’s most populous city, this controversy likely pales in comparison to some of the extremist views he’s expressed in the years since then:
Meet New York’s Most Radical Assemblymember: Zohran Mamdani pic.twitter.com/cLhkrVF82w
— CPAC (@CPAC) July 3, 2025
Zohran Mamdani is a radical Islamic jihadist terrorist who must not be allowed to be Mayor of New York City or any other city in the United States.
He must be stopped. Communism cannot take hold in America. pic.twitter.com/zqHt8HVDUn
— Joey Mannarino
(@JoeyMannarinoUS) June 25, 2025
Zohran Mamdani is a radical Muslim from Africa who just gained US citizenship 7 years ago.
Everything about this guy screams deep state plant.
NYC IS F*CKED!!!
— AmericanPapaBear (@AmericaPapaBear) June 25, 2025
But his top rival, current NYC Mayor Eric Adams, is hammering him on the college application issue, as the New York Post reported:
Adams was appalled by Mamdani’s actions, especially for skirting around the system in “an insult to every student who got into college the right way.”
“The African American identity is not a checkbox of convenience. It’s a history, a struggle and a lived experience. For someone to exploit that for personal gain is deeply offensive,” Hizzoner, who is black, said in a statement.
His campaign went a step further, accusing Mamdani of possibly having taken away an admission offer from a true African American applicant.
“It’s now clear that Zohran Mamdani misrepresented his racial identity to gain admission to Columbia University, and at the time, he wasn’t even a US citizen. This is not just dishonest — it’s possibly fraudulent. It may have taken a place away from a qualified African American applicant and misused a process designed to correct real, systemic inequities,” campaign spokesperson Todd Shapiro charged in the statement.
ADVERTISEMENT“We need answers. Because the people of New York deserve to know whether the man asking for their vote built his career on a possibly fraudulent foundation.”
Mamdani isn’t the first prominent Democrat to face backlash for seemingly misidentifying as a more advantageous race:
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