Chapter 629: A Little Episode at the Dinner Party
"Mr. Lee, I'm a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, can I ask you a question?"
In the corner of the banquet, Li Xuan was standing with two Chinese professors from New York University and happily greeting each other. Suddenly, a white man squeezed up to him coldly and interjected very impolitely.
This kind of very ungentlemanly behavior immediately caused everyone around to frown. But since the other party had said everything, Li Xuan really couldn't refuse bluntly. After all, if a dog bites you, you can't bite it back, and that will only pull you down to the same level as a mad dog.
Facing the other party's aggressive eyes, Li Xuan just smiled disapprehantly. He bowed slightly, signaling that the other party could start asking questions.
Although Li Xuan was not standing in the center of the banquet hall, from the moment he appeared, many people present quietly focused their attention on Li Xuan.
The United States is a capital-oriented society, and Li Xuan, as the richest man in the world, is naturally very sought after. So as soon as there was a small situation on his side, it immediately attracted the attention of many people.
And this reporter obviously wanted to attract the attention of more people present, and deliberately raised the volume of his speech: "Mr. Li, the foundation named after your father spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year on charitable actions, which I admire very much!"
But as far as I've learned, most of that money is spent in China, and in the US, Europe, Japan, where the vast majority of the profits are generated for the Eastern Bloc, you have very little philanthropic feedback!
For example, if you donate tens of millions of dollars to a university in China every year, and the total amount you have donated to all universities in the United States in the past ten years is less than $50 million......!
"Are you a racist?" Li Xuan asked suddenly.
"Of course I'm not a racist, Mr. Li, you're very unfriendly about this question! Please don't deliberately divert the topic, I'm not going to discuss the issue of racialism with you!"
The reporter was caught off guard by Li Xuan's question, and was stunned for a few seconds before he could figure out the purpose of Li Xuan's rhetorical question, so he could only try to show an angry expression on his face after being slandered.
"Oh, yes? You reporters are all powerful people, and I thought you were going to confront me like this:
I also got a statistic that 90 percent of all the philanthropic money you spend in the United States goes to minorities. Black Americans make up 35 percent, Latinos make up 30 percent, Chinese Americans make up 25 percent, and white Americans make up a pitiful 8 percent!
But middle-class families of white descent with higher income levels are the main consumers of computers, games, software, and other products in the Eastern Bloc! Don't you think that this distribution of charity funds is very unfair to the white community?"
Li Xuan said with a look of considering the other party's position, as if he helped the other party make up the second half of the unfinished words.
It's just that as soon as Li Xuan's words fell, most of the people present who heard their conversation no longer concealed their disgust on their faces. And this disgust is obviously not aimed at Li Xuan.
Li Xuan didn't wait for the other party to speak, and continued to say to himself: "Using your extra ability to help others should be a completely autonomous behavior that will make you feel happy, and it should not become a narrow moral kidnapping!"
Those who buy Oriental products do so because they feel they are worth the money, not because they want to get something back from me in the future!"
When Li Xuan said this, there was immediately a burst of applause in support in the banquet hall. And these applause are naturally very harsh for this reporter.
He obviously planned to provoke Li Xuan before he exported, hoping to establish him as a bad image of robbing Americans of their money and spending it elsewhere by revealing the flow of Li Xuan's charity funds.
But Li Xuan only used a few words of guidance, and in turn labeled the other party a race-ethnologist. Fortunately, this is a white reporter, if there is a black man, Li Xuan's counterattack effect will definitely not be as good as it is now.
Race-race equality is definitely the greatest political correctness in the United States, and even if it is as strong as US President George H.W. Bush, the Democratic Party has recently enacted an affirmative action bill, which can still make him anxious.
And for the majority of ordinary Americans, if they are labeled as racialists, then a good job is basically insulated from them! After all, the bigger the company, the more unbearable it is, and the public questions whether they are racist!
So don't look at Li Xuan's tone of voice as always, it is very plain, but there is a huge murderous intent hidden between the lines. If this reporter does not wait to clear his suspicion of racialism tonight, then what awaits him tomorrow is likely to be fired!
"Thank you for reminding me, it looks like my security advisors are going to be busy again! In the past, they only had to deal with the threat of the kidnappers, but now it seems that the 3-Klux Klan doesn't have a much better impression of me!" Li Xuan said with a slight self-deprecation.
It's a pity that Li Xuan's black humor, this reporter obviously has no time to taste it now. Li Xuan's words now are more like nailing nails in the coffin board to him, so that he has no chance to turn over.
"Whatever way you have come to this banquet today, on behalf of New York University, I declare that you will no longer be welcome with us, and please leave at once!" a cold, slightly aged voice brought the episode to an end.
As soon as this man's words fell, four tall security personnel quickly stepped forward to surround the white reporter and set him up out of the banquet hall.
"Lee, I'm going to introduce you to an old friend of mine, Robert Allen, Chairman of the AT&T Board of Directors!" The person who just made the final decision was none other than Mr. Stephen Bradmas, the current president of New York University, who is also the host of today's fundraising dinner.
Mr. Bradmas was no ordinary man, having served as a congressman for Indiana's 3rd District since 1959. He was re-elected for 11 consecutive terms until 1981, when he announced that he would not continue to run. Moreover, Brademas also served as the Democratic whip of the House of Representatives for four consecutive years since 1977, and can be called a senior boss in the Democratic Party.
Of course, Brademas's fundraising dinner today was not for the Democratic Party, but for NYU! Just after he announced in 1981 that he would not run for office, the NYU Board of Trustees soon invited him to serve as the 13th president of NYU, a position he has not yet held.