The PTB in Greenville have ****** up Biblically in the past year. You don't need the details but they bit the hand that fed them and pissed on UNC-Ch med school. For ECU to get to the next level, they needed engineering and some of NC State's programs, but to get those invovlfed opening up the ancient deal made between Leo Jenkins and the Branch Head Boys back in the 1970's that kept UNC-Ch from having the Vet School or Engineering, in exchange for NC State not having Law, Dentistry, Nursing, etc. ECU got a med school out of the deal and the ability to be the economic engine for poor as hell eastern NC.

Let's put the brass tacks on the table and tell the truth.

Promises were made by the ptb -white Democratic and some white Republican patrician politicians, to look after the poor as hell black folk who had been trapped for 300 years on a gd tobacco farm. That's truth and most folks don't like to hear it. Nearly every one of those former "black" slaves are actually children, grandchildren, and great grand children of a paternalistic power structure that people today do not understand. I'm old enough to remember the deal and while Leo Jenkins is dead, I'll continue to do my little part to keep the deal going NC State or UNC be damned.

Those are my people too - they don't look like it - but they are my people too.

If you want pure hell in the mid-Atlantic south, do something that messes with the well being of a white boy's former mammy and her kids. It's not a relationship that most northerners or westerners can even wrap their heads around but hurt them and and we will hurt those who have hurt them.