This past weekend, billionaire Robert F. Smith delivered a one-of-a-kind commencement speech at Morehouse College, ending with the announcement that he'd be eliminating the entire graduating class' student debt. Graduating members of the class of 2019, obviously, went wild, as did many others:
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When you just graduated from @Morehouse and Robert F. Smith just paid off your student loans....🙌🏾
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@thehbcupulse How all the mommas at this graduation responded when he said he paying off the student loans‼️
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@Morehouse @RFS_Vista Me hacking into the registrar's records to change my graduation date:
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The thing I love about this #Morehouse situation is the pressure it puts on every other bazillionaire who’s already signed up to give a commencement speech this month.
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Which newly graduated Morehouse King wants to be my husband? Now that you have no student loans we can collectively work on mine.
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On my way to Atlanta to get a Morehouse debt free man of God.
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Looking for a debt-free Class of 2019 Morehouse man
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Robert F. Smith is the richest Black person in the U.S. He just pledged to pay all 400 @Morehouse graduating class members’ remaining student loans. What he has just unlocked will reverberate for DECADES if not more. Even if I never meet him, I will be forever grateful to him.
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Morehouse Class of 2019 pulling up to grad school, law school, med school, a new job knowing they’re debt free:
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@thehbcupulse Me too man
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@GAFollowers @Morehouse Class of 2020 scrambling to take 28 credits this maymester to reclassify to class of 2019
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The entire Morehouse Class of 2019 is graduating debt free. That’s it. That’s the tweet.