reporter: hunter is the founder of black folks camp, too. he started the north carolina- based company in 2019 after a cross-country road trip with his son in their three-month trip, hunter says they met just one other black family. when we were driving through holbrook, arizona, the petrified forest, i had this thought this is my legacy. reporter: hunter quit his job as an executive in the r.v. industry, making it his business to get black people out and into the great to get black people out and into the great outdoors. yeah! reporter: like brian myers, from columbia, south carolina. when you live in, you know, these four walls, that s all you see. that s all you know a lot of times. reporter: we met outside pisgah national forest, around what hunter calls will the unity blaze. it s a place for sharing and tough talk about the past. carlos grant is a new camper from greenville, south carolina. link it back to slavery and the aspects of what a tree meant to the blac
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An excited group poses during one of Black Folks Camp Too’s very first backpacking trips on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail.
Earl B. Hunter Jr. describes his younger self as a “Good Times kid,” growing up on free lunch and government assistance in Columbia, South Carolina. He wasn’t great at school he didn’t even learn to read fluently until he was a teenager but he had a quality about him. And he had a mentor.
His name was Marion Cooper “Fuzzy” Thompson, he was a guidance counselor, and he changed Hunter’s life.
“What he would tell me was, ‘Don’t be a woulda, coulda, shoulda kid,” said Hunter. “Don’t be that kid that perpetuates the stereotype that folks have of you.”
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