Morehouse keynote speaker . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These youngsters are lucky, right place, right time
Not everyone has the same luck
Stop hating

Preparation, meet opportunity ... with a little luck.

People hate to see other achieve... that is why every month when bonuses go out all I hear are gripes.

[Anonymous]

Man, that would really suck if you were supposed to graduate in 2019 but decided to spend an extra year. Even worse if you needed to take an extra year for financial reasons.

Great for him and the grads!!!

[Anonymous]

I feel sorry for next year's commencement speaker. If it isn't Oprah or Obama, forget it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do they understand what pay it forward means

Yes, they do @$$hole. Each graduate is pledging $100 (100 * 400 grads = 40,000) to pay for the text books of the incoming class.

That is not tuition, they are aiming low and not in the spirit of paying off future class mate tuition.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do they understand what pay it forward means

Yes, they do @$$hole. Each graduate is pledging $100 (100 * 400 grads = 40,000) to pay for the text books of the incoming class.

That is not tuition, they are aiming low and not in the spirit of paying off future class mate tuition.

These are recent college grads who may or may not have a job lined up for after college and/or may be going to grad school. They don't have a lot, so $100 each is a nice gesture paying it forward.

This doesn't say that this is the only donation they'll ever make or excluding making future donations, but their pledge in the moment towards next year's class. Robert Smith is in his 50s and about 3 decades removed from college. I bet he did not make big donations the year he graduated from college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for next year's commencement speaker. If it isn't Oprah or Obama, forget it.

Well, Robert Smith got the idea from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Warren Buffet. All of the above are trying to encourage other very wealthy people to donate to charitable causes and colleges seem to be getting quite a lot of benefit from the idea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for next year's commencement speaker. If it isn't Oprah or Obama, forget it.

Well, Robert Smith got the idea from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Warren Buffet. All of the above are trying to encourage other very wealthy people to donate to charitable causes and colleges seem to be getting quite a lot of benefit from the idea.

Those white people have so many bad ideas.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for next year's commencement speaker. If it isn't Oprah or Obama, forget it.

Well, Robert Smith got the idea from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Warren Buffet. All of the above are trying to encourage other very wealthy people to donate to charitable causes and colleges seem to be getting quite a lot of benefit from the idea.

Those white people have so many bad ideas.

I'm white .... don't "culturally appropriate" the great deed of a black man by implying some white man gave him the idea. No one has done what this guy did directly. Oprah, another black person, gave over $13M to Morehouse some years ago for scholarships...not loan forgiveness.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is he paying off all the credit card debt of the parents that didn't take out loans, but are going into debt helping their kids?

Is he paying back those that didn't get a new house, but saved up money for college instead?


This is just another person helping out people that chose not to help themselves. Go pay off the community college kids debt while they work and go to school.

Agree! Nice gesture, but once again the families and kids that didn’t prepare financially, but still chose a 4yr college with debt are the winners.

Exactly

That's why I said it would be more fair to just give every student the same amount. Take the cost of paying off all the debt, divide it by the number of students, and give that to them

Debt isn't a perfect measure of poverty or need. There were lots of kids there with lower debt because they transferred in from a cheaper college or worked summer jobs or had their parents deplete their savings and go into debt for them.

Yet when actual debt free students from the 2019 class were interviewed, there were no sour grapes, they were as inspired by the generosity as the students receiving the most

Try interviewing the parents who worked their asses off so their students was going to the college debt-free. Asking the students is completely pointless.

You aren't one of the parents. There are people in this world who can see something positive happen for someone other than themself or their immediate family and feel good. Someone who scrimped and saved for their own child's education, believes in the value of education, they understand the importance of this gift.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for next year's commencement speaker. If it isn't Oprah or Obama, forget it.

Well, Robert Smith got the idea from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Warren Buffet. All of the above are trying to encourage other very wealthy people to donate to charitable causes and colleges seem to be getting quite a lot of benefit from the idea.

Those white people have so many bad ideas.

I'm white .... don't "culturally appropriate" the great deed of a black man by implying some white man gave him the idea. No one has done what this guy did directly. Oprah, another black person, gave over $13M to Morehouse some years ago for scholarships...not loan forgiveness.

You read an awful lot into that simple statement. Robert Smith is the first African American to sign onto the Giving Pledge that was started by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It encourages wealthy individuals/families to commit to charitable philanthropy.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/robert-f-smith-morehouse-college-class-of-2019-student-debt

Smith, who has an estimated net worth of $5 billion, founded Vista Equity Partners in 2000, a private equity firm that invests in software, data, and technology-driven companies. The 56-year-old billionaire is the first African American to sign the Giving Pledge, a campaign founded by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett to encourage wealthy individuals to dedicate the majority of their wealth to philanthropy, Forbes Opens a New Window. reported.

https://givingpledge.org/

A COMMITMENT TO PHILANTHROPY
The Giving Pledge is a commitment by the world's wealthiest individuals and families to dedicate the majority of their wealth to giving back.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for next year's commencement speaker. If it isn't Oprah or Obama, forget it.

Well, Robert Smith got the idea from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Warren Buffet. All of the above are trying to encourage other very wealthy people to donate to charitable causes and colleges seem to be getting quite a lot of benefit from the idea.

Those white people have so many bad ideas.

I'm white .... don't "culturally appropriate" the great deed of a black man by implying some white man gave him the idea. No one has done what this guy did directly. Oprah, another black person, gave over $13M to Morehouse some years ago for scholarships...not loan forgiveness.

Well then you are white person he doesn’t understand the concept of cultural appropriation. Nobody is implying anything about Robert Smith he belongs to an organization, a cause that Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett both belong to in regards to pledging to give away their wealth and increase the philanthropy of the superrich shut up

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is he paying off all the credit card debt of the parents that didn't take out loans, but are going into debt helping their kids?

Is he paying back those that didn't get a new house, but saved up money for college instead?


This is just another person helping out people that chose not to help themselves. Go pay off the community college kids debt while they work and go to school.

Agree! Nice gesture, but once again the families and kids that didn’t prepare financially, but still chose a 4yr college with debt are the winners.

Exactly

That's why I said it would be more fair to just give every student the same amount. Take the cost of paying off all the debt, divide it by the number of students, and give that to them

Debt isn't a perfect measure of poverty or need. There were lots of kids there with lower debt because they transferred in from a cheaper college or worked summer jobs or had their parents deplete their savings and go into debt for them.

Who the hell are you to tell somebody what to do with their money this man chose the gifts he wanted to give and the people he wanted to give it to you don’t know anything about Morehouse the AUC Spelman or HBCUs you just wanna drop your ignorance, because as always you want to put your supremacy STANK on Something that doesn’t have anything to do with you

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is he paying off all the credit card debt of the parents that didn't take out loans, but are going into debt helping their kids?

Is he paying back those that didn't get a new house, but saved up money for college instead?


This is just another person helping out people that chose not to help themselves. Go pay off the community college kids debt while they work and go to school.

Agree! Nice gesture, but once again the families and kids that didn’t prepare financially, but still chose a 4yr college with debt are the winners.

Exactly

That's why I said it would be more fair to just give every student the same amount. Take the cost of paying off all the debt, divide it by the number of students, and give that to them

Debt isn't a perfect measure of poverty or need. There were lots of kids there with lower debt because they transferred in from a cheaper college or worked summer jobs or had their parents deplete their savings and go into debt for them.

You know what? Life isn't fair. Those who do the best are not just hard workers; they are the hard workers who had the opportunities at the right time. Robert Smith cannot help everyone, but he chose the graduating class of 2019 at Morehouse College as the ones that he was going to help this time. He is donating $40M and there are some 400 students that did get a helping hand from his gesture. He made a wonderful gesture and he should be applauded for that.

Nickpicking how and what he did just because it wasn't the way you would have done it is the type of attitude that would make some people just not bother trying to be generous in the future. So, rather than criticizing how he did it, why don't you go and donate $10M of money to help those other students and we can sit here and criticize you for how you chose to do it, who you chose to benefit and so on.

"Life isn't fair" is the dumbest rationale to explain why kids who choose debt and a 4 year college degree should be rewarded, over others who had to drop out and go PT to community college and get a job to pay for it.

You and your manmy can suck rocks .
You have No idea how and why these kids have student loans and it’s none of your damn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do they understand what pay it forward means

Yes, they do @$$hole. Each graduate is pledging $100 (100 * 400 grads = 40,000) to pay for the text books of the incoming class.

Oh I love that!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for next year's commencement speaker. If it isn't Oprah or Obama, forget it.

Yeah, going to be hard to follow up on this one!