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/Head-Ordinary-4349 1d ago

I was just going to ask this too. I'm curious what these students think, being so racially divided like this?

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u/Suspicious-Story4747 1d ago

They aren’t racially divide. All races are free to apply to HBCUs.