BY GENE NICHOL – COMMENTARY Tags: North Carolina | poverty | Gene Nichol Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a yearlong look at poverty in North Carolina. Gene Nichol will revisit this topic monthly. We speak much for equality in the United States. Our first statement as a nation attests it’s a “self-evident truth” that all are “created equal.” Lincoln reminded, at Gettysburg, we were “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition” of equality. Our constitution is premis