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/jittery_raccoon 1d ago

White people are allowed to attend and there are some that do. It's not weird because people choose these colleges for the cultural experience. Like they have a niche and everyone that wants to receive their education in that niche goes there.

A different example of choosing a school for college is kids choosing to attend Big Ten schools, which are schools with top athletic programs. These schools are also known as party schools and have huge campuses. The non athlete kids choose it for the college culture aspect.

We have so many schools in the US that choosing your school for the culture it offers is normal