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.
hhhmmm. not accepted until he said he was black huh? My people get blamed for being “privileged”
Black Privilege my friends, Black Privilege……
I know people who have been turned away on grants until they mark the “African American ” and then they get approved
I don’t care if my M D is purple with green spots. I want an intelligent well trained comp$#%&!@*ionate doctor!
Or my Portageese friend who couldn’t get a job until she marked Hispanic on the application!
you become black by burning a piece of wine cork ,,,,real cork…and apply the burned end to your face. What you first and foremost want to do is try to get away from WHITE PRIVILEGE AFTER ALL. NOTHING WORST THAN BEING WHITE. YOU WILL NOT GET AHEAD IN THE MILITARY AS PEOPLE OF COLOR OR GENDER , NOR WILL YOU STAND AS GOOD A CHANGE OF GETTING INTO MEDICAL SCHOOL STANDING NEXT TO A BLACK WITH A 3.0 VS YOUR 3.5 IF YOU ARE A WHITE WHIPPING SLAVE $#%&!@* ,,,CRAKER ( CRACKING A WHIP ON THE BACKS OF YOUR SLAVES OR AN NATIVE AMERICAN CALVARY KILLER. after all all my family came from Ireland who go back to the $#%&!@*hole Cromwell who instigated White Slavery putting the IRISH on the slave market in the millions. We don’t need to talk about that $#%&!@*. That confuses the pre civil war slaves or the modern adolescent culture of blacks who talk like parates and think like them. No it will never end. All my last days i will have to put up with all this $#%&!@* at my federal job like….oooo it’s black history month ,,,ooo its asian month,,,,wow its native american month and now it ,,,gay month ,,,jesus $#%&!@*ing christ,,,the grave seems like such a comfort ,,,i hope there is a $#%&!@*ing god so i can kick him in his balls and $#%&!@* for making me white.
O by the way Cromwell is noted as a real Calvinist ,,,and we know what Calvin did during his religious introduction to the doctrine of Election when he burned a woman publically for witchcraft ,,,yeah he was next to god ,,,,,more of a shariah $#%&!@*hole ,,,
Affirmative action discriminates against everyone, except black people.
they don’t want smart people just the right color
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