r/nextfuckinglevel • u/matori_tester • 1d ago

Billionaire speaker Robert F. Smith tells 400 graduates he's paying off all their student loans ($40 million in total)

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u/EdwardBigby 1d ago

I hope people don't take this the wrong way but as a non American I'm slightly confused why there's a college where everybody seems to be black (also an Asian lady sitting behind the speaker)

I assume it's in a mostly black area but is it a case of no white people applying for this college or the college not accepting any white people? Or maybe I'm just missing the white people

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u/YoRt3m 1d ago

Yeah I noticed that too. I checked their website and it seems like all the photos are of black people too. a bit weird I would say, even with historical context. I assume non-black can join tho, hard to believe it's discriminatory, but still weird and obviously the other way around would be more than just "weird"

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u/Claude9777 1d ago

You are correct. Non-black people can and do attend. Many of them getting scholarships to attend for not being black. I attended a predominantly white institution. One of the first black people to attend happened to be the mother of my friend. It was only in 1966. When I was there in 1995, I had classes with over 100 people and I'd be the only black person. On a campus of 30,000, there were a total of 800 black people.