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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel sorry for next year's commencement speaker. If it isn't Oprah or Obama, forget it.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

Those white people have so many bad ideas.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.

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

[url]https://givingpledge.org/[/url]
[quote][b]A COMMITMENT TO PHILANTHROPY[/b]
The Giving Pledge is a commitment by the world's wealthiest individuals and families to dedicate the majority of their wealth to giving back.[/quote][/quote]

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