Victor Davis Hanson

You have Mondami and immediately their parents or they come here and they're faced with a choice.

If you play the race victim card, this is one trajectory.

If you don't and you say you're really happy to be in this safe, prosperous, secure country and that's why my parents left Puerto Rico once.

or Uganda, or Somalia, and I was so lucky to get where I am because of these opportunities, then that trajectory is going to be a lot more difficult.

And so our society, because we've got so pathological, offers these choices, and most people take the easy way out.

All you have to do is say that you were a victim, your parents were a victim, your color, your religion, it's oppressive, and that...

That gives dividends.

And it will continue to give dividends until people say, I'm bored.

I've heard it so many times.

Grow up and be an adult.

Quit blaming everybody for your own inferiority complex or your own perception of unfulfilled life.

It's not my fault.

It's yours.

When she says, I thought it was them and not you.

No, Michelle, it's you.

It's not them.

Not some abstract them.

You were the most...

On the great sense of things, you grew up in a very stable, advantageous family, and you excelled, and the society at large said we had been unfair to African Americans.

So to the third or fourth generation from Jim Crow is that we're going to continue to offer advantages for those who want to take it.