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North Carolinians, we have to start a petition to get North Carolina officially known as THE HOOP STATE! 🏀✨️
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The full documentary is up on my blog. I'm really not into sports but this is the city that I was born in, where my family is from and where I spent a vast majority of my childhood.
"If I heard about a basketball player in Kinston, NC I would go there before New York City" - Roy Williams
1 in 52 players from this town go to the NBA...
Watch 'Something In The Water: A Kinston Basketball Story'
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This is another great article to read, much longer than my blog post though. A lot of great insight into the history of Kinston.
Hydrogen bombs, historic floods, murder. "You can't save everybody," the sheriff tells his son. “You deserve to grow old,” the coach tells his players.
On “Basketball Heaven” and its decades-long fight to survive:
espn.com/espn/feature/story/…
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I lived in Chapel Hill for two years right before I moved to Atlanta. When I tell you, that city lives and breathes college basketball and all things Jordan and UNC! MJ is their God in North Carolina.
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The ceiling is the roof! THE SKY IS THE LIMIT! 💙💙💙💙💙💙 There's no place like home. #GOATofAllGoats 🐐💎✨️ #legend 2️⃣3️⃣
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One thing's for certain, two thing's for sure. IMMA ALWAYS HAVE MY BACK. IMMA ALWAYS TAKE CARE OF ME. 💯🎯 #MyTruth #MyREALITY #iykyk #AllIHaveIsME #ImAllThatIHave #HarshTruth #FACTS
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You really have to possess a different level of hustle, resilience and grit to make it out the South. It's not called the Dirty South for no reason. I'm just saying.
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And it's hot and humid as heck! 🥵🥵🥵
Someone is homeless/poor/lower income in the south there’s a high chance they won’t make it out of those conditions. Lack of resources, poor education conditions, lack of means etc. The south since crushing of Reconstruction continues to be the most oppressed region in America
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I'm opening my line, DMs, email and inbox to anyone with questions and don't know what it's about. I'll be more than happy to enlighten and educate you on what actual poverty is. 💯
most people in the north east region have simply no understanding of what poverty means and presents as in the deep south vs the NE.
being impoverished in the north is a privilege compared to the hellhole that is poverty in the south.
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I'm only posting these because I don't think the average American is aware that we have people in our own country that live like people in third world countries. I saw it with my own eyes growing up in North Carolina.
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BIG FACTS! 💯 My uncle had a huge hole in the living room floor of his trailer and the roof. We just walked around it. 😂😂😂 In the South if you don't own a car, you WILL be getting your steps in WALKING, there's no bus or train. 👟👟
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You definitely learn how to be very resourceful when you grow up in a place with little to no resources.
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BRUH, PLEEEEASE LET EM KNOW. 😫 This is what I try to explain to people from up North that think growing up in the projects was a struggle. My parents grew up in a shack with no indoor plumbing.
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