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/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?