In a story elucidating the failings of Affirmative Action, an Indian man who was unable to get accepted into medical school with a 3.1 GPA found success after transforming himself into a black man.
Vijay Chokal-Ingam, brother of now estranged actress/comedian Mindy Kaling, wanted nothing more than to be a doctor back in 1998 but had been rejected by 11 prestigious medical schools until he became ‘Jojo’ the African-American candidate. ‘JoJo’ continued his schooling for 2 years but quit after seeing his Indian friends getting rejected that had higher GPAs.
Vijay is set to publish a book soon on his experience.
He explains on his blog how he prepared:
“So, I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied to medical school as a black man. My change in appearance was so startling that my own fraternity brothers didn’t recognize me at first.
I even joined the Organization of Black Students and started using my embarrassing middle name that I had hidden from all of my friends since I was a 9 years old.”
It worked. He was accepted into St. Louis University School of Medicine:
Chokal-Ignam, who ultimately did not become a doctor, made his feelings about affirmative action clear in a recent tweet:
In an interview with The College Fix, author and University of Michigan professor Carl Cohen agrees and says affirmative action is “damaging for blacks and other minorities”:
“The philosophical justification of democracy rests upon the conviction that all members of some community are equal. In a democracy any preference for a racial group is intolerable.”
Cohen continues:
“Affirmative action has many forms. It can be honorable and right. When it takes the form of outright preference, it is morally wrong and deeply unwise. If preference is what is meant by affirmative action, it should be scrapped entirely, for sure.”
His solution:
“To bolster admission rates we need to provide the education – especially early childhood education!
That will enable minority applicants to succeed on their own merits.”
People Magazine reports that the actress and her brother are estranged. Mindy Kaling has not commented on Chokal-Ingam’s affirmative action application plan.
Haha, funny how you talk as if you know me,…..you have no clue Dacey!
I live in the real world my friend, don’t have a ba$#%&!@*t, and BECAUSE MY SKIN IS LIGHT I HAVE TO WORK HARDER AND SMARTER THAN EVERY MINORITY IN AMERICA BECAUSE THERE IS NOT A SINGLE PLACE I CAN GO THAT WILL GIVE ME A LEG UP SOLELY BASED ON MY RACE…..
GUESS WHAT??? I did exactly that, I built a life comfortable enough to be able to spend my days feeding, clothing, laughing and comforting the homeless, and giving to children who otherwise wouldn’t get anything.
So, when you decide you want to talk out of the side of your $#%&!@* about things you know nothing about, remember that ignorance is not blissful, nor is it capable of change….TRY SUFFOCATING YOUR IGNORANCE, IT MAY HELP YOU WAKE UP FROM THE LIES YOU LIVE WITH!!!
Dacey is a troll…..where there is racism being questioned this fool is there to continue the cycle.
Liberals wont believe it because they ignore facts.
However when he applied to the college again with the same credentials but down he was black ge got in. Like how i got my first 2 jobs. Feels good being a native american because being an irishman im still the lowest in the race polls. $#%&!@*ing $#%&!@*s. “Irish need not apply”
$#%&!@* i just saw one of those.
So now people that call you on your racism are trolls? Lol. You truly are a new kind of racists. Too cowardly to be upfront and honest about your hate, so you shroud it in religion and other wild ideas.
Show some facts to back up your ignorance and I will listen.
2.6% of medical school applicants are black. 54% of medical school applicants are white. With an approval rate of all applicants overall at 34%. You do the math and see how wrong you are!
Total BS!!
Jonathan Costilow are you seriously questioning whether places like Harvard, Yale and the like have and have had for 35 or 40 years affirmative action prorams that accept minorities over whites with higher GPAs and admittance test scores? Facts are facts. Nothing racist about pointing out facts. Happy to get you the details if you don’t know that. But it is so obviously true I wonder if I have misinterpreted your comment?
Boy oh boy Jonathan you do not understand statistics. And you apparently have never heard of affirmative action. And are not aware of the existence of quotas before they were eventually held to be uncons$#%&!@*utional. I can understand a debate about whether affirmative action is right or wrong but to act like it doesn’t exist is incomprehensible.
The hypocrisy of political correctness. ..any questions?