For His Family, African isn’t a Racial Category. Neither is American.

Zohran Mamdani’s family lived in Africa for generations before Idi Amin forced them out of Uganda.They are opponents of Amin’s (and Trump’s, and Netanyahu’s) brand of ethnonationalism. The New York Times’ failure to appreciate this led them to some spectacularly narrow-minde, wrong-headed and ill-informed reporting about Mamdani. Peter Beinart comments.