Nick Plummer:

• What’s your ethnic and religious heritage?
Cherokee Indian and African American. My religious upbringing was baptist.

• What’s your earliest memory of becoming aware that some people looked different from you?
Growing up I was never told those are white, Hispanic or whatever people. My grandpa didn’t know a stranger. So it wasn’t until I heard it on tv that I became “aware” of the difference.

• What’s your earliest memory of becoming aware of racism?
When I was in the 5th grade and I asked a girl if she would date me and she said she couldn’t date black boys because her parents didn’t see us as equal.

• What’s one way you think your life would have been different had you been born another race? I wouldn’t of had to watch what I said, did, or dressed like as much.

• What is one way you think you could connect with white people who have differing views about race?
By having a conversation, where both sides are open to understanding where the other is coming from. It’s hard to understand where someone is coming from if you don’t empathize with the ground they walk on.

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