r/nextfuckinglevel • u/matori_tester • 2d 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 2d 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/Legal_Guava3631 2d ago

HBCUs were founded for the black students that wanted to go to college but PWIs said fuck no, yall not coming in here. Anyone can apply, but it’s not really common for a white person to be seen on campus as a student.

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u/EdwardBigby 2d ago

Very interesting. I've never heard of those. Definitely makes sense from a historical point of view but the concept of them existing in a modern day context still seems bizarre to me.

What do most Americans think of them?

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u/GrandMarshallFunk 1d ago

It's modern day racism.

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u/premeditated_mimes 1d ago

What a shit take.

They don't bar people from attending based on color like the people whose policies created the university in the first place.

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u/GrandMarshallFunk 1d ago

I'm not talking about the students. I'm talking about the black man that chose to donate to a majority all black school on purpose. It's racism.

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u/premeditated_mimes 1d ago

So if a "white man" chooses to donate money to an ivy league school is that also racist?

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u/GrandMarshallFunk 20h ago

Yes, if that white man chose that school because it was all white?

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u/fieldsports202 1d ago

Anyone can attend a HBCU. Lots of white people have attended mine due to its great nursing school. Some of the same rural Americans who are conservative have attended an HBCU for various degree programs.

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u/GrandMarshallFunk 1d ago

Yeah but a black man donated to a majority all black school on purpose. He chose that school. He is racist.

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u/fieldsports202 1d ago

Yeah, ok.

Also, please don’t look at this man’s page.

Says a lot about someone who has to use Reddit as a hookup 😂😂

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u/GrandMarshallFunk 20h ago

You looked. 😂