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Posted on 04/07/2015 4:33:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Vijay Chokal-Ingam, the brother of writer and actress Mindy Kaling, has sparked controversy with his new book, in which he claims to have been admitted to medical school after posing as a black man.
In the book, titled "Almost Black," Chokal-Ingam claims that he pretended to be a black man after believing certain medical schools practiced affirmative action policies that gave black students an edge in the application process. Chokal-Ingam says he shaved his head, trimmed his "long Indian eyelashes," and used his middle name, Jojo, in an attempt to pass for black. His application also stressed his time spent in Africa, where he and his family lived before moving to the United States.
Chokal-Ingam applied to a number of U.S. medical schools including Harvard, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania in the 1998 application cycle. He claims on the book website that he "never lied about anything on my application, except my race." The website has significant documentation that Chokal-Ingam says proves his theory. With a grade point average of 3.1, Chokal-Ingamwas accepted into St. Louis University in 1999. He eventually dropped out of the school after deciding not to pursue medicine.
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This cracks me up. More “darker-skinned” people of any ethnicity should do this, and show our racial spoils system for the un-American farce it is.
Hell, he’s probably blacker than Obama.
The most virulent racists on the planet reside in higher education. It is simply unbelievable but true.
black is a COLOR... NOT a race!!!
My lily-white kid asked what his chances of getting into trouble would be if he declared himself 1/32 Cherokee (for an NSF grad grant). I think Lizzy Warren inspired him.
No, he didn’t go that route, but he observed that it was a huge advantage.
Remember when Black Folks were passing as White?
Schools get around the “race” thing by focusing on “culture and life experience”. So if charged with bias, they just explain that it had nothing to do with race. This particular student had a diverse culture and life experience and a primary criteria in the admissions process is diversity.
S okay.
We have a black president who posed as an Indonesian to get into college...
My kids are 1/8 Cherokee. One of them is considering going after “minority” financial aid, but he needs to do some genealogical research first.
Agree! I get a douche vibe from him thpugh. I don’t mark my ethnicity on anything anymore since I learned from a government worker who told me we just change what you put down anyway! LOL but seriously racial spoils was part of America from the birth of this country up till 1967 but use quotas to fix that isn’t the way. Same with reparations...oh snap I brought up the r-word.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren similarly used her dubious Native American ancestry to get her Harvard position.
Go for it. After the banks started clamping down on loans I suddenly became Hispanic when I wanted to refinance my house.
Mindy posed as a comedienne.
RE: Sen. Elizabeth Warren similarly used her dubious Native American ancestry to get her Harvard position.
Well, she’s one of the pioneers... He’s just following her (in this case, successful) example. maybe Vijay might run for Senator yet, who knows...
That’s ok. I put down Pacific Islander on my job application because a nursing home is essentially a government institution and what Uncle Sugar wants they get.
My second oldest daughter had a Mexican descended math teacher her senior year of high school. This teacher hated my daughter. She sat through his class and then went to her Physics teacher for instruction in math. The math teacher had majored in Statistics or some such in college. He did not know Calculus, and he had no clue how to teach it. I think he was working as a teacher in order to pay off his student loans. He often played poker in class with the students instead of teaching them calculus. :( A few weeks ago, daughter learned that this guy went to law school right after she graduated. He made it through law school but failed the bar exam. His Mexican descended fiancé recently completed medical school. She also failed to pass her licensure exams. Go figure. The exams must be racist!
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