Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and the Democratic Party’s newly minted candidate for mayor of New York City, found himself in some hot water last week after The New York Times reported that he claimed to be both Asian and "Black or African American" on his college application to Columbia University.

Many Black New Yorkers are not happy about that, including incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who is actually Black and is running for re-election as an independent.

Adams said in a statement: “The African American identity is not a check-box of convenience. It’s a history, a struggle and a lived experience. For someone to exploit that for personal gain is deeply offensive.”

The conservative New York Post had a field day with the news, and interviewed numerous Black New Yorkers who described Mamdani as a fraud and a liar.

This matters because Mamdani is an exciting candidate for many progressive and far-left voters, whites, and the affluent; for Black voters and the........

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