Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld said Monday on “The Five” that Democrat New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is the “poster boy” for “woke” victimhood, referencing a report that he checked off “African American” on his Columbia University application.
A report released by The New York Times on Thursday said that in 2009 Mamdani selected both “Asian” and “Black or African American” as his racial identity on his Ivy League application. Kellyanne Conway told Gutfeld she believed the biggest scandal from the story is that Mamdani hadn’t been admitted despite his father working at the university at the time.
“Yeah, I want to know how stupid he really is. I mean, his SAT scores must be lower than Jesse’s. But what I love about him, he’s not even Ugandan. You know, by definition, you have to have parents or grandparents who are Ugandan. He was born in Uganda. Both of his parents are Indian, which might be the reason why they left,” Gutfeld said.
“But what’s interesting is he didn’t say he was Indian because he knew they have the highest median household income in the United States. He knew that wouldn’t help him in the oppression Olympics. He was smart enough to see what could get him preferential treatment,” Gutfeld said. “So he adorned himself with a different race, which exposes the lie of identity politics. If it is so unfair to be black in America, why are you pretending to be one?”
In response to the NYT’s findings, Mamdani told the outlet he had checked off the box, saying the application didn’t “have a box for Indian-Ugandans,” so he “checked multiple boxes trying to capture the fullness of my background.”
“Even though these boxes are constraining, I wanted my college application to reflect who I was,” Mamdani told the NYT.