Gray Nischwitz
- Interviewer
- Stewart Buchanan
- Date
- November 28, 2023
- Location of the Interview
- DuPont Library
- Length
- 15 minutes, 26 seconds
- Abstract
- Gray Nischwitz was born on August 8th 2002 in Memphis, Tennesse and has lived in the same place his whole life. Memphis is a predominantly black city which has given Gray a perspective that most people in other cities that are predominantly white wouldn't get. Gray is a student at Sewanee: University of the South and is also a member of the football team. Gray plays quarterback and long snapper, he really found his spot on the team this season as a dominant long snapper making many important tackles. His community throughout his whole life has been through sports teams leading him to experience every kind of culture especially African American culture. Gray first learned about the Black Lives matter movement during covid from Fox News. His family mainly watches Fox to get their information and he believes that people watch certain news networks not to gain new information but just to reaffirm the beliefs that they already hold. Gray recounts that a majority of the protests were held during covid and one of them even blocked off a bridge. He was never personally involved in the BLM movement but was never far away from it. Gray believes that the movement should keep fighting for equity among all people and unity within the nation because division is what hurts us the most. This is a part of the Black Lives Matter Oral History Program to document BLM in America.
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