Last Thursday and just before the Independence Day holiday weekend started, the New York Times committed a rare act of journalism with the publication of a piece mildly critical of Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat mayoral nominee for New York City.
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In it, they revealed that the New York Assemblyman claimed that he was “Black or African-American” on a 2009 Columbia University student application. The information was important to know, as the Times pointed out, because “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.”
As RedState reported, the article prompted backlash among BlueCry leftists and even some Times staffers, with woke NYT columnist Jamelle Bouie posting (and then deleting) harshly critical comments about one of the reporters on the story. Patrick Healy, the NYT‘s assistant