Fox & Friends hit Nyc Zohran Mamdani’s mayor leader for a university form where he was identified as “Asian” and “black or African American”
The hosts of Fox & Friends They have criticized Zohran Mamdani After the reports they appeared that he identified as “black or African American” in a university request a decade ago.
According to one New York Times article, Mamdani selected so much “Asian” and “Black or African American” When requested at Columbia University in 2009 as a high school student, although he has since revealed the reason for his action.
Despite this, Charlie, a co-presenter of Fox and Friends, hurt the Mayor of New York City, with the labeling of “racist” and accusing him of being against American values. “The new Democrats candidate to be the mayor of New York City It clearly despises America and everything we think about. Communist completely blown and also racist, by the way, “said Hurt.
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However, the 33 -year -old politician has since dealt with the subject. In his comments on the Times, he explained that he does not identify as black or African -American. Instead, he said he checked the two boxes of the application to “capture the fullness” of his heritage.
“Most of the university applications do not have a box for Indians-Facades, so I checked several boxes trying to capture the fullness of my background,” said the legislator as he defended the move.
He said he specified “Ugandan” in a section of the application that allowed more detailed personal information. “Although these boxes are restricting, I wanted my university request to reflect who it was,” he added.
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Mamdani, who recently won the Democratic candidacy for New York City, was born in Uganda with an Indian Ugandan father and an American Indiana mother.
He spent part of his childhood in South -Africa before moving to New York City at the age of 7. His campaign has focused a lot on housing reform, immigrant rights, and sharing his background as a Muslim and South -Seasatic immigrant.
Previously, he revealed that identifying -as African American would be “misleading”.
“I am an Indian, Ugandan, New York,” Mamdani said during a campaign event in April when he discussed his identity. When asked directly if he would identify as an African American, he replied: “I would not.”
“I’m proud to be a Ugandan, but I think that’s misleading,” he added.
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