Victor Davis Hanson
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And then you say, well, why?
Because they don't have the compositional skills or the training that other people from these Southern universities do of all colors, nothing to do with race.
And more importantly, when they come to workforce, they go right to HR and complain.
And I would rather have somebody who was quiet and qualified rather than somebody who had to complain about me or my company or working conditions.
She's got to twist it.
I can tell you that because for 21 years, I'd have graduates in classics from not a competitive school, a California State University school, and they wanted to go to the Ivy League.
So they had to have a greater degree, a master's degree in classics.
And more importantly, when I would...
They would apply to graduate school.
Most of my students were minorities, but I have three or four white males, and I'd always say to them, you have to have a perfect SAT.
You have to have a perfect SAT, and you're going to have to have a perfect grade, and you're still not going to get in unless we... And then I would get a call.
This is a true story.
A guy called me up and said...
We let in one of your students.
He was brilliant, Latino student.
I tutored him.
And he called up and said, I find out, is it true that he's not legal?
And I said, I don't know.
So I asked him and he said, no, I'm illegal.
I didn't know it.