FOE Family First Chapter 4: Small Business for Wealthy Students
Tommy also lit a cigarette: "Aren't you curious about what kind of business I am in?"
"I'm not curious, but if you dare to let the police take you away, notify me to pay the bail, and I will kill you." Tony grinned and said, "Don't do anything stupid."
Tommy nodded slightly. "It's just some temporary small business that's a bit shady, targeting wealthy students. The police are not interested."
"Did you bring your driver's license?" Tony didn't continue the conversation but changed the subject.
"certainly."
"Drive carefully, the clutch of this car is a little loose and has not been adjusted yet." Tony patted Tommy's shoulder and said, "I will walk back to the repair shop by myself. It's just a good opportunity to take a walk as a way to be lazy. Go and do your little business. See you in the evening."
After saying that, Tony turned and walked back the way he came.
"Tony!" Tommy yelled.
Tony bit his cigarette and turned to look at Tommy. Tommy pursed his lips and said, "Yesterday, my attitude towards you was a little... excessive."
"We are family, kid. Mom always says that there is no such thing as excessiveness among family members. There is only tolerance." Tony smiled, turned around and continued walking forward.
Tommy Hawke did not waste any more time admiring the brotherly spirit shown by Tony. He started the car, drove directly onto Interstate 95 along Jefferson Boulevard, and then drove to Providence, the capital of Rhode Island, more than ten kilometers away.
Providence, which is only 19 kilometers away, is not unfamiliar to most people living in Warwick. Many people in Warwick live in Warwick and work in Providence, driving to and from get off work.
Tommy drove directly to Johnson & Walden University in the Bay Area of Providence, parked his car in the parking lot, and pretended to be a freshman who was preparing to enroll in the school next academic year and came to learn about the school in advance. After chatting with several college students, Tommy got the information he wanted.
Walking out of the campus and across two streets, I saw an old two-story building. There was a banner hanging between the two windows on the second floor, and the same three characters as on the banner were sprayed on the wall -
ΔΣΦ
Generally speaking, buildings with prominent Greek characters on the walls and located near universities indicate that they belong to student organizations, such as famous or infamous university fraternities or sororities.
Tommy was going to do business with the Johnson & Walden University North American Fraternity.
The reason why he did not choose other prestigious universities such as Brown University-Providence, Rhode Island College, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence College, etc., is of course that the fraternities of Johnson & Widener University are more likely to patronize his business.
There is no need to say much about Brown University, it is a top university and a member of the Ivy League. Its students are all elites trained by American private high schools. It is very troublesome to do business with those smart students, so stay away from them.
The Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island College, and Providence College have too many local students from Rhode Island, so you might even meet high school seniors.
Only Johnson & Walden University has more than 3,000 students, most of whom are international students from various countries and white high school students in Virginia.
Why do we need to specifically state that they are white high school students in Virginia, rather than American high school students? Because white people from Virginia are called white trash in the New England region of the northeastern United States, as well as in states such as New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
Moreover, white people in Virginia are given a special title, “cracker”, by Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States, who is printed on the $100 bill. He called white people in Virginia “descendants of British prisoners, vagrants, as barbaric as the Indians.”
There is a reason why the white people in this state have been treated like white trash by the northern states for decades. Even after World War II was over and New York's Broadway was able to accommodate black actors on stage , the state was still strictly enforcing the Racial Integrity Act and the Anti-Miscegenation Ordinance, which meant that if a white person dared to marry a black person in this state, the end result would be that both parties would have their tools confiscated and be forced to be sterilized.
White people in the state were willing to spend huge sums of money to revise various laws on race and ancestry, and maintained the racial purity of the state almost until the 1960s, when they were forced to cancel them under pressure from the US government.
Even now, in 1982, many comedians still make jokes about Virginia . If an American doesn't know what his or her ancestry is, it's simple: get a little tan, go to Virginia and live for three days, and you can get an ancestry survey report from the state government. The report is so detailed that even one-sixteenth of your Indian or black ancestry can be found. Then they threaten you that if you, a person of color, dare to marry a white woman in this state, they will castrate you.
So why do Virginia high school students choose to study at Johnson & Walden University? Simple: practicality.
In the eyes of Virginia white trash, public education spending is a scam. Even now, in 1983, nearly 40% of Virginia students drop out of school after the eighth grade to work on their family's farms or other businesses. Students from other states may not even graduate from high school at the age of seventeen, but a peer in Virginia may already be the parent of two children.
Those who continue to attend high school will most likely become adults when they graduate from high school and become skilled workers, farm workers, or open a restaurant, a motel, a truck bar, etc.
In the eyes of white trash or most of the lower-class white people in the United States, college is useless. It is a means for the US government to deceive them into taking on high-dollar loans. Only idiots would go to college. It is better to be an apprentice than to go to college.
But as more and more people have this idea, Virginia is now full of restaurants, motels, truck house bars, and serious internal competition. Johnson & Widener University, a university that has no presence in the United States and has faced closure crises several times, has seen a way to make money from the eyes of these seriously involuted Virginians.
They focused on promoting the culinary academy to white high school students in Virginia, telling those white people who were planning to open restaurants or bars after graduating from high school that the culinary academy taught all kinds of secret recipes of food, and if you learn them, it is guaranteed that your future restaurant business will be prosperous, far surpassing other local restaurants. Moreover, it only takes three years to complete the course, instead of four years like other universities, so you can save one year of tuition.
Can you learn a skill that you think is useful, save a year of high tuition fees, and become a college student? White Virginians think this is a bargain, and they don't care whether the diploma is a degree or an associate degree.
Virginia parents who have money and don't need their children to help with work at home immediately are deceived by this university and send their children to this university, which they believe is more practical, to gain knowledge.
So today, the university's 3,000 students are made up of half international students from Europe and South America and half from high school students from Virginia.
As for why Tommy Hawke knew so much about this university, it was because the teacher in charge of providing college application counseling at Lincoln High School, where he studied, had warned them that as locals, if they wanted to apply for college, they should never consider this university, cherish their reputation, and stay away from white trash.
He walked to the door of the fraternity building and rang the doorbell. Soon, a young man with tangled hair and beard, wearing a jacket with the North American fraternity logo on his upper body and beach pants on his lower body, opened the door. He looked at Tommy Hawke with sleepy eyes, frowned and said impatiently:
"Boy, can't you see the sign outside? It's a secret society, only members are allowed in."
"Excuse me sir, do you need a doctor's certificate or prescription drugs? We can deliver to your door and you can pay on delivery." Tommy Hawke said with a smile on his face.
