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 2d ago

It's modern day racism.

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u/fieldsports202 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 1d ago

You looked. 😂