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Oprah Responds To Instagram Troll Slamming Her For Not Paying Off Graduates’ Student Loans At Commencement Speech

Paul Bois

Billionaire Robert F. Smith showed he walks the walk every bit as much as he talks the talk when he pledged to pay off student loans for everyone in the Morehouse College graduating class (396 students) while giving the commencement speech this past Sunday.

“On behalf of the eight generations of my family that have been in this country, we’re gonna put a little fuel in your bus. This is my class, 2019. And my family is making a grant to eliminate [your] student loans,” Smith told the crowd.

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