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Karen Hunter Is Awesome!

Debating Affirmative Action with Vijay Chokal-Ingam

Karen Hunter Is Awesome!

Women's Empowerment Network

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5.0687 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Classic 2015 interview with brother of Mindy Kaling - Vijay Chokal-Ingam

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0:00.0

Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome.

0:11.0

I am Karen Hunter, and today I want to offer an interview I did in 2015 with a gentleman

0:18.4

who is known for, well, he's not known for much now, but he is the brother of

0:24.1

Mindy Kaling, the comedian, and the producer extraordinaire.

0:28.7

And he and I are paths crossed because he pretended to be black to get into medical school.

0:36.1

And I went on the rampage talking about him on Twitter.

0:40.2

And he tried to come for me. And then I invited him on the show to have a discussion. But I think

0:45.1

right now in the time that we're in with the discussion around affirmative action, which now is

0:49.3

gone, 2015, we still had affirmative action. It's now a thing of the past. There's a lot of

0:53.9

conversation about DEI and getting rid of all of this. And the power of it, and I wanted to sit

0:59.4

with this interview and I wanted you to sit with it because I don't know if my view has changed.

1:03.5

I have been a strong proponent of affirmative action because I believe that America was founded

1:09.3

upon racism

1:10.8

and to make that from redlining to discrimination.

1:15.1

My dad couldn't go to Seton Hall because he was black, right?

1:17.8

Back in the 1950s and 60s.

1:19.5

So for me, it's important to give people access and opportunities.

1:24.8

But he made a good point in this interview about resentment that comes

1:28.3

with it that I now agree with. And now that it is gone, I feel like we have an opportunity to

1:34.2

see what's really happening, which we're seeing. There's a whole other riff going on. Now,

1:39.3

he's of Indian descent, which is now also when we're talking about the visas and people coming in,

1:44.0

there's a lot

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