re: Howard University cancels graduation mid-ceremony as attendees destroy building.

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many of them decided to invite every aunt, uncle and cousin they have.

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Honestly, what’s wrong with that? It would seem that people celebrating an educational achievement would be seen as a good thing.

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Well, it’s a simple matter of mathematics. Let’s say the facility holding the graduation holds 1,500* people. That means if you have a graduating class of 375 and each has four guests attend, you will fill your facility to capacity. And according to this story, Howard graduated 2,800 in this class. *Howard’s Crampton Auditorium has seating for 1,500 people according to Google.

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You missed my point - perhaps I didn’t explain it well, so my apologies.

I have zero problem IF the University says in advance “we only have X amount of seating in this arena, and we have y number of graduates, so each graduate may only invite x/y=a number of guest”.

What I was commenting on was the seemingly negative stereotype of black folks “have to invite everyone aunt, uncle and cousin they have”. I was saying that in fact shouldn’t be criticized or seen as a negative at all, instead that celebrating educational achievement should in fact be lauded.

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What it doesn’t allow for is inviting all your aunts, uncles, and cousins.

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You forgot their "children's father(s)..."