May 21, 2019

Diddy and Big Boi react to billionaire Robert Smith's paying off 400 students' debt

American billionaire investor Robert Frederick Smith stunned the class of 2019 at historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta with his pledge to wipe out their debt, thought to be worth up to $40m. Mr Smith, 56, is the founder of the private equity firm Vista Equity Partners and one of the nation's most prominent African-American philanthropists. Diddy reacted to the donation on Instagram saying "This is beautiful, inspiring, moving and motivational. This is what is possible. This is how we are naturally as a people. We are a tribe, we are supposed to take care of each other". Big Boi reacted as well - albeit speechless :-).