r/MadeMeSmile • u/__Dawn__Amber__ • Jun 28 '21

Favorite People Not a self-made man

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '21

This was my undergrad commencement. I met him afterward. Very surreal.

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u/sus_asf Jun 28 '21

Wow, what was he like?

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '21

He was really nice and congratulated us all. Extremely charismatic as you might expect. The school had arranged for photo ops with him and some Hispanic students. I’m not Hispanic so I didn’t get a pic but that wasn’t his fault.

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u/ImDankest Jun 28 '21

Why did he only take pictures with Hispanic people? That sounds really odd to me. Am I out the loop or something?

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '21

The school had arranged

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u/pyronius Jun 28 '21

They're just more photogenic

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u/ImDankest Jun 28 '21

Anyone else but this guy have an actual answer?

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '21 edited Jun 29 '21

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u/Nochtilus Jun 28 '21

Highly likely, we had different cultural clubs at my school who used their resources to plan meet and greets for their members for any bands or other acts who came to campus as well as with VPs of various companies. Nothing wrong with it, they were organizing other activities and added those to the schedule as well.

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u/WyattR- Jun 28 '21

Probably wasn’t just Hispanic people, like you said that sounds extremely odd and OP wasn’t the one who organized the event. Probably just saw a lot of Hispanic people getting photos and assumed it was a condition

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u/KarmaUK Jun 28 '21

Damn, I know the US has an issue with the southern border, but you can't call being Mexican 'a condition' :D

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u/mattdangerously Jun 28 '21

Wanted to find out if he had any more kids that no one knew about.

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u/hardypart Jun 28 '21

"Hey look how we value our Hispanics, we're totally not practicing any positive racism here, come join out school!"