Dominique Wilkins: They Burned a Cross on My Front Yard When I Decided to Play for Georgia (Part 4)

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Dominique Wilkins: They Burned a Cross on My Front Yard When I Decided to Play for Georgia (Part 4)

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Dominique Wilkins spoke about his experience as a young adult growing up in the South, particularly his controversial decision to attend university in Georgia rather than in his home state of North Carolina. At the time, in the late 70s, this was considered as unusual and even against the norm. Wilkins shared that after this decision, he faced an unprecedented backlash that involved hostility and racism, including racial slurs written on his car, threatening messages, and a cross burning in his yard. He also highlighted that segregation was a stark reality in his high school years, with separate proms for black and white students.

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@vladtv Жыл бұрын

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@shanenolan085 Жыл бұрын

2:02 whyyy does Vlad act so surprised 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 it was the SOUTH... PLUS when Magic and Bird played in the 80s, they spoke on the Boston bus crisis where black integrated with whites and white mobs DESTROYED parts of the city...

@clarencedolan699 Жыл бұрын

As a kid growing up in the Atl, Nique was everything to us.

@Flynning Жыл бұрын

You love em?

@Vino_Czar Жыл бұрын

💯💯💯

@LoveLife-bg4cj Жыл бұрын

@clarencedolan669 facts he was our Michael Jordan no cap 💪🏾🙌🏾

@againstallodds1582 Жыл бұрын

Niq was that DUDE. S curl and all 😂😂😅

@itsmeLisar414 Жыл бұрын

One of the greatest of all TIME. I loved watching him play ball.

@endienigh2247 Жыл бұрын

I remember when it was Wilkins vs Jordan of who was baddest dunker in NBA. Wilkins averaged 30 points a game w./ 7 rebounds against Jordan so he held his own

@originalethemc6574 Жыл бұрын

I'm from little Washington NC, the same city where Nique is from....and he is the biggest thing to ever come out of my town. Although he got a lot of hate when he went to college in another state, WE LOVE DOMINIQUE WILKINS!

@Samantha-ck5tl Жыл бұрын

My family too is from little Washington NC. (Still there) Dominique has always been a star in our eyes!

@originalethemc6574 Жыл бұрын

@@Samantha-ck5tl indeed he has

@Stoked214 Жыл бұрын

Georgia cut the check. That’s why he went there. Very few players keep it a buck about that. Barkley tells the truth.

@Forever.Remain.Nameless Жыл бұрын

As they all shld have....

@kevinmorrison6093 Жыл бұрын

He had a mom and 8 siblings living in the projects....

@patrickreddick1468 Жыл бұрын

You know that how 🤔😊

@cantstop-wontstop2138 Жыл бұрын

@Stoked214 2 things can be true.

@antonio80594 Жыл бұрын

He kinda indicated that in a previous interview.

@blunt2416 Жыл бұрын

Damn...gotta love the south. Southern hospitality.😃

@1983jcheat Жыл бұрын

I didn't find much hospitality down South.

@pateheckerwood Жыл бұрын

@@1983jcheatand you wont...a wm killed 3 yesterday in Jacksonville Florida

@tonyoliver5537 Жыл бұрын

Dominique experienced racism in 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia in Buckhead he was turned away as he went to dine with a friend because the color of his skin the restaurant is called Le Bilboquet the interesting thing Dominique was actually born in France not the United States.

@danielchitown9339 Жыл бұрын

Do you feel better now ?

@vladtv Жыл бұрын

we discuss that later on

@BlazeDrumArtist Жыл бұрын

@@vladtvthanks Vlad

@moreno_163 Жыл бұрын

That’s sad smh

@tristinhall1275 Жыл бұрын

I’d rather hear that from him not some Internet nigga who probably made a bunch of assumptions

@hueyfreeman5509 Жыл бұрын

They had a segregated prom and were mad he didn't stay smh. Stuff like that still goes on today

@RonnieM90 Жыл бұрын

Well he went to Georgia which is even more south than North Carolina.

@moun3164 Жыл бұрын

@@RonnieM90Bro Georgia Tech is in Atlanta . R u comparing a small town in a racist state to Atlanta ? What r u talkin bout

@RonnieM90 Жыл бұрын

@@moun3164He went to UGA which is in Athens, GA not Georgia Tech.

@RonnieM90 Жыл бұрын

@@moun3164 A 2015 study conducted by Nate Silver found that Atlanta the second most segregated city in the U.S. and the most segregated in the South. Certain areas of the city are predominantly black or white. 60% of the city's area consists of largely black neighborhoods: together, Northwest, Southwest, and Southeast Atlanta are 92% black. There are some areas that are predominantly white, notably Buckhead and Northeast Atlanta which are on average 80% white.

@RonnieM90 Жыл бұрын

@@moun3164 Atlanta has also dealt with police brutality in recent years. On the night of June 12, 2020, Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old African American man, was fatally shot by Atlanta Police Department (APD) officer Garrett Rolfe.

@CrippyLongGlockings55Crip Жыл бұрын

I want a Ron Isley Interview

@BlazeDrumArtist Жыл бұрын

& Otis Williams

@TheCountBlackula1978 Жыл бұрын

Some people in this world have evil in they're blood passed down thru they're ancestors.

@carlvellloyd7200 Жыл бұрын

Most of them🤣

@yesterdayproductions1019 11 ай бұрын

Segregation is NOT evil. There are many reasons for it. What IS evil is that according to Law Enforcement Crime Statistics, 90% of all violent crime is black against black.

@mosquitosthrash6811 Жыл бұрын

glad you shared your experiences

@beaujac311 Жыл бұрын

Once I heard Dominique say that his high school had segregated proms, I knew then that Washington NC had to have a large black population. I graduated high school here in N. Georgia a year (1980) after Dominique and my high school had one prom every since the schools integrated around 1970. The reason why there was no segregated prom here was because white people had the black people outnumbered 90% to 10%. When they outnumber you like that they feel in total control. But say if the black population would have been 20-25 percent then there probably would have been a segregated prom.

@tonteaux1 Жыл бұрын

In the 70's in my part of Louisiana (southwest) we actually had 3 proms. Black prom, white prom, school sponsored prom. The black/white proms had unofficial leaders for fundraising to get the entertainment, venue, etc..School prom was held at school so it was poorly attended mainly because of no alcohol was allowed. I believe the current day prom at my school is a farce, kids show up, take pictures, and within an hour or so the place is empty. A few wait for the ceremonies...😆😆

@djuanbenjamin9149 Жыл бұрын

You know them white folk felt like kings back then.

@maineyourbusiness4478 Жыл бұрын

The only time the deal with us is when it makes them money!!! Shit just ask Vlad!!!

@tristinhall1275 Жыл бұрын

Nigga you have never in your life experience the type of stuff that Dominique has experienced so hush. Y’all Niggas love getting on the Internet and hollering racist Just because it feels right. Just dumb.

@biga5774 Жыл бұрын

This was guy growing up! We had TBS in Little Rock and I watched all them Hawks games just to see Nique. I had that S-curl high top fade with the part just like Nique! Salute!

@berlingray8058 Жыл бұрын

People don't realize both him and MJ grew up in the segregated south of the 60s and 70s.

@RonnieM90 10 ай бұрын

Also, I believe Bob McAdoo, James Worthy, and David Thompson grew up in NC. Moses Malone, David Robinson, Allen Iverson, and Alonzo Mourning grew up in VA. Charles Barkley grew up in Alabama. Karl Malone grew up in Louisiana. Clyde Drexler grew up in Texas.

@The-Reckoning Жыл бұрын

Goes to show how far our country has come

@derrickdeal2374 Жыл бұрын

Sounds good!!

@keeenen Жыл бұрын

Yea it’s been a corporation since 1865 nothing changed lol

@hueyfreeman5509 Жыл бұрын

You must be trolling. Similar things still happen to to this day stop with the ignorance

@alamo2336 Жыл бұрын

Not far at all

@The-Reckoning Жыл бұрын

Racism is not even close to what it used to be, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. It's certainly not perfect and humans will always find a way to F things up but Thank God I'm an American and vengeance is mine says the lord. Trust and believe all the evil doers will face a day of judgement. Repent now while you still have time

@AnthonyWilsonGrant Жыл бұрын

Real rap. This was life. I’m from SC. They wanna rewrite the history tho 😂

@motaylor1979 Жыл бұрын

THERE ARE PLACES IN THE SOUTH IN SOME COUNTIES THAT STILL HAVE SEGREGATED PORMS IN 2023

@twanyoung7966 Жыл бұрын

And we as a people don’t deserve Reparations. They tried to mess up Allen Iverson and Randy Moss also.

@jaye5926 Жыл бұрын

yep & many others...

@brett444 Жыл бұрын

So allen Iverson carries zero blame for his mistakes lol ok

@jcchambers7896 Жыл бұрын

@@brett444I mean that bowling alley accident wasn't even chucks fault and they tried to throw him in prison come on now

@RonnieM90 Жыл бұрын

It is surprising that he chose to go even more south to Georgia from North Carolina since he did not like dealing with the racism. I would have thought he would have tried to go north or west.

@C-Lyfe85 10 ай бұрын

Georgia was the new promise land for black people come especially Atlanta . Why would he go up to the north or west, they're just as racist, only difference is you have a black side of town and you have a white side of town on, so you don't have that racism interaction.

@jackstar6018 Жыл бұрын

Dominique Wilkins!!!!!!!!!😱

@mistersippiburning Жыл бұрын

Charleston High School in Mississippi had their first integrated prom in 2008… 2008!

@waygookinway1805 Жыл бұрын

Bet them white girls were happy to finally have some brothers there.

@1983jcheat Жыл бұрын

Wow.

@pateheckerwood Жыл бұрын

Yep

@markowilson7423 Жыл бұрын

Wassup Dominique!!!!!! man I just left Atlanta

@velosiped135 Жыл бұрын

It's a real shame he was forced to leave his home due to racism. As a White kid growing up in the suburbs of L.A., Dominique was my hero. I had this thing where I'd watch his games throughout the week and predict his plays that would end up on Sports Center's Top 10 plays on ESPN that Saturday. There was rarely a Saturday he WASN'T on the Top 10. When my neighbor friend and I would shoot hoops over his garage, I 'was' always 'Nique. Sure racism is still around, only now it's manufactured and given the nice sounding title of 'Progressivism', requiring an oppressed, and an oppressor, and for all of us to be at each other's throats.

@pateheckerwood Жыл бұрын

Manufactured?so a wm didnt go into a church in Charleston?a wm didnt drive to buffalo NY to kill?a wm didnt kill 3 in Jacksonville Florida yesterday???...guess those were manufactured killings

@HOODMEDIA Жыл бұрын

Where was TK Kirkland

@vladtv Жыл бұрын

see below

@Jumpman90 Жыл бұрын

This kind of stuff is sickening, Dennis Rodman and Oakley had similar experiences

@mattsm00th Жыл бұрын

They probably still burning crosses today

@E4MB Жыл бұрын

oh it’s not a probably, its fs still going on

@brucegreen5781 Жыл бұрын

Lol white issues⚪️🗑️💩🤡👿

@emfn6190 Жыл бұрын

Yep,mostly in the southern states in those small towns in the middle of nowhere that’s occupied by a bunch of racist mfs.

@beaujac311 Жыл бұрын

You know they would burn some in Atlanta if they could because of their boy Trump being done wrong.

@Destroyer-Grizzly-BIH Жыл бұрын

And the problem is???

@quintonmurphy2252 Жыл бұрын

Vlad acting like it something new NewYork and Boston was the same way to!

@_2LiveQ Жыл бұрын

The Washington NC/252 area in NC is still very kinda out in the woods country so I can believe it they produce some freak athletes tho !

@pookieraythanos Жыл бұрын

The human highlight film

@dannydavis5550 Жыл бұрын

His son is so good

@willieperkins4436 Жыл бұрын

My high school, Aiden Grifton chargers, beat Dominique Wilkins and Alvin Rodgers the Washington pound packs in the basketball state playoff in 1977

@bigpunisherthegreat8200 11 ай бұрын

WGAF???😒😒😒

@trellcraft Жыл бұрын

Wild story

@Gigantor60 11 ай бұрын

I played high school basketball between 1974-1978. My team needed police escort when we played Greenbrook, HG Hoffman, and Dunellen. All in NJ. 70's was tripping

@bilialeilan9038 Жыл бұрын

Segregated proms? Vlad sound shocked He should research this city called Charleston Mississippi.

@KKemp-bt6nl Жыл бұрын

VLAD is in an interesting space. He gets to hear the science behind how sh*t really is from the people who are affected by it.

@pateheckerwood Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@dullsearake Жыл бұрын

Damn, separate white and black prom? What do you do if you're mixed race?

@macabree5856 Жыл бұрын

Automatically put with black. Crazy how true this is. No trolling. Segregation was an actual thing

@Mr.Atlanta850 Жыл бұрын

Back then, mostly everybody stuck with their own kind their. There wasn't all of that mixed-up kids stuff back then, especially in the 60s and 70s. I remember when I was growing up in elementary and high school in the 70s and 80s, it was just black and white People in Atlanta at both of my schools. There were no Outsiders NONE.

@nystagmus Жыл бұрын

In 1979 they still had segregated proms?!

@elijahdawson34 Жыл бұрын

In case some of you in the comments section probably didn't know, North Carolina was so heavy on hanging blacks when you entered the state they had black men, women, and children hanging from trees for miles. Now think about that, when the state of North Carolina crosses your mind.

@clarencedolan699 Жыл бұрын

Go Dawgs!!

@markmmmm9720 Жыл бұрын

F Georgia and you can keep your racist state

@williamjohnson7290 Жыл бұрын

1979 they was still having white and black proms wow

@Mr.Durant Жыл бұрын

Never knew bro was from the city

@cee3458 Жыл бұрын

Wow!

@user-cx6ho6bm7n Жыл бұрын

Dame in 79

@dunnitall23 Жыл бұрын

Wow

@danielleshipman9001 Жыл бұрын

Have you ever dealt with the court system in America?! I’d burn a cross too if I had to deal with black people and a court case at the same time!!!

@TinyDraws7 Жыл бұрын

Bitch what are you talking about?

@aaronbaskerville5007 11 ай бұрын

Huh???

@Paris179 10 ай бұрын

Yo Dominique Baltimore is a southern city … it’s below the Mason Dixon line

@scottsimon769 Жыл бұрын

Last 🤬 💩 🤬

@W44F Жыл бұрын

He was suppose to be North Carolinas slave not Georgia's slave

@user-xm5ny2ju9m Жыл бұрын

What does a burn cross mean

@bennied2757 Жыл бұрын

Stupid crazy dumb ass. It means nobody nothing white people are still living in the slave raping murdering past.

@myrondupree5302 Жыл бұрын

Dominique. Sorry but John Lucas went to Maryland before that and was an All American in two sports. Also Buck Williams went to Maryland. Do I an sure you weren't the first to Bock the system

@djelliott3158 Жыл бұрын

My older brother graduate outta high school in 1993 and they had a Black and hite Home Coming Queen in Mississippi. I repeat not 1933 but 1993 and all other high schools around was like that as well. Vlad really think its sweet out here in American. American is bigger than LA and NYC Vlad. Leave those area and you will get a reality check real quick.

@mikehenderson8578 Жыл бұрын

A perfect example of a person trying to be a sports reporter than has zero knowledge of the history of basketball. At the time of Dominique the Jazz were flat broke. They could not even make payroll so the million dollars kept them in Business one more year. Frank Layden talked about it all the time. Dominique wanting to play in Atlanta saves the Jazz. With our Dominique there would have been no Malone or Stockton. Learn your history man. It was the best and only trade option the Jazz had.

@daniel6771 Жыл бұрын

North Carolina is not the south😂

@damongales319 Жыл бұрын

Georgia paid, UNC, Duke and NC State didn't 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@bilialeilan9038 Жыл бұрын

So this was the 1970"s and black people was still catching hell. Black people were catching extreme hell prior to the 1960's

@t-l-taylor Жыл бұрын

Nah this can't be true, racism ended once the slaves were freed( sarcasm)

@bigtac20 Жыл бұрын

Folks were mad because he shunned dean smith

@darylwoodard1054 Жыл бұрын

James Worthy came out the same year.

@rubengutierrez5102 Жыл бұрын

They wanted Nique to go to UNC. But Nique should've went to NC State. The Wolfpack would've won two Nationals had Nique played in Raleigh, NC.

@darylwoodard1054 Жыл бұрын

Him and Sidney Green and Lowe and Whittenburg could have accomplished that. But if Bowie was healthy, I am thinking Kentucky pulls a chip.

@jcoope77 Жыл бұрын

Where da proof?..sharpie in proper or it didn't happen...everyone wants to be victim

@user-ht9ht4sz4o Жыл бұрын

I named my son an daughter after the human hightlife!

@vicowens1024 Жыл бұрын

It’s human high light film.

@heisenberg2966 Жыл бұрын

Dominique should know better than that, to Exclude The Racist Acts of The North. Hell, He Played for Boston, near the end of his Career, so I know he heard of The Bill Russell “ Experience “ in Boston( as he was Winning Championships in The City ).

@SpikeShooter92 11 ай бұрын

Vlad asked him about that in this same interview and Dominque said he lived in Boston for 5 years and he said he never experienced any of that stuff.

@heisenberg2966 11 ай бұрын

@@SpikeShooter92 Let me tell you Something: Dominique only lived in The Boston Area for about 5 Years; I lived IN BOSTON, for OVER 30 YEARS! Of Course, he is NOT Going to Experience Any Racism. Dominique Wilkins is a 6’8”, Well-Recognized, Professional NBA Player, who Played for THE BOSTON CELTICS; He received The “ You are Not Black; You are a Celebrity “ Treatment. Plus, he was living in DOVER, MASS; He was living in a Rich Area of The Suburbs. But, right next door, in Wellesley, a 6’ 1”, Unknown NBA Rookie, named Dee Brown, was Racially-Profiled by The Wellesley Police, Thrown Face-Down on The Sidewalk, with Guns Drawn, and accused of Robbery. Obviously, it was “ Mistaken Identity “, but that RACIST MOMENT, is just ANOTHER Case Study, and Reason Why Boston EARNED The Title of, “ ONE OF THE MOST RACIST NBA CITIES “! Side Note: I had a “ Run-in “ with Dominique Wilkins, over a Woman I was interested in. Dominique and I, both Love The Nightclub Scene, and would Bump into Each Other, from Time to Time. But, on This Occasion, A Woman who I was able to Attract, seen Dominique standing Outside of This Night Club, as We were about to Exchange Phone Numbers, and Yelled, “ DOMINIQUE “. She then asked me to come with her, so I could meet him. I already knew This Cheater( Dude is Married, with Kids, but Gettin with Many Women ). Anyway, I went with her, and Dominique asked her, RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, if she wanted to go to HIS HOTEL ROOM( which was right next to The Nightclub ). I was 😡; so I JUST WALKED OFF! This is a TRUE STORY, NO CAP!

@divinedamon921 Жыл бұрын

🤔😯🤬

@B1GK1NG Жыл бұрын

We need to ask Kirkland! Where is he?

@seanettecoaxum3269 Жыл бұрын

he from New York my biological family I am looking for is from Branchville south Carolina they a wilkins they moved to New York wilkins and brown and Collins

@olzt100 Жыл бұрын

Not as much as the south, but Easyern Nort Carolina. If you ask James Worthy or Nate McMillian, who also grew up in NC. they will give you a lighter story because they grew up in more diverse areas at around the same time. The leading candidate for President in Eastern North Carolina is Donald Trump today. I attended ECU and know the racial climate there. Some very good people but many have backwards ways.

@orlandotocano1323 Жыл бұрын

Nique!!

@darrylnelson05 Жыл бұрын

He let it slip. "F's" on his transcript. You know he got paid to attend Georgia. You don't turn down NC State for UGA in basketball. UGA basketball was no where close to NC State basketball. His whole family up and moved to Georgia after he signed there.

@UserOfGass Жыл бұрын

They burning crosses in his yard why would his family stay? 😂.

@KKemp-bt6nl Жыл бұрын

Explain to the class why the Wilkins family should have said no to payola. It was like 8 of them, and they were dirt poor. And you, being a grown adult, are suggesting they should have stood on their moral ground and stayed broke. You are not making much sense.

@darrylnelson05 Жыл бұрын

@KKemp-bt6nl I didn't say that. I said what he won't say. Which was the Truth.

@KKemp-bt6nl Жыл бұрын

Understood. Me and you are both old enough to know Nique can't say his family got paid. The NCAA would crush UGA athletics. If Nique thought NC showed him some hate, just imagine UGA if he caused that kinda situation.

@tristinhall1275 Жыл бұрын

@@KKemp-bt6nl Bruh I highly doubt you are keeping some type of secret that nobody knows. These type of things are well known throughout college sports.