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.
But that has nothing to do with him. If he had applied under separate races with identical qualifications and been rejected as Indian and accepted as African-American, that would be show that race was the only factor that could have separated rejection from acceptance. However, that isn’t what happened. He was afraid of his chances because of rumors about med school acceptance, and he made the decision to apply under a different race, without ever knowing what would have happened if he had just applied honestly. There is most definitely all sorts of racial bias occurring in schools, but this is not an example of that.
Duh, he became black on paper. He merely altered his looks a little and the school never knew the difference.
To me he should have never done this
Next time someone says “You have white privilege” be sure to remind them of this…
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Black_privilege
I call bull$#%&!@*
Kennedy is a lying $#%&!@*.
True story:I have a friend that is in management for a major US business.3 employees involved,all facing termination. White male,Hispanic male and a black woman.he was told he could fire the white male. The Hispanic male was” cl$#%&!@* protected” black female was “double cl$#%&!@* protected” doesn’t sound like “white privilege” to me!kinda goes in line with this article!
He did what he had too so sad things have gotten so bad.
And the first one who had slaves was black he had white & blacks. Read your history books. Back in the beginning Irish people came over for freedom were used as slaves. Also.try gettin alone work together too much hate.
He only understands the ones manipulated to fit his beliefs