How to Move Forward; A Monument to Brownsville
“I can’t breathe.”
These were the words that sparked a movement of change in America. For centuries, the mistreatment of Black people in America has been an issue. Police brutality is just a microcosm of those issues. But these days it is the most prevalent form of that mistreatment. Earlier this year, people across the nation witnessed the unjust death of another Black man at the hands of a police officer. His name was George Floyd. It was with this event that caused all of America to reflect on some of the outdated things rooted the deepest in our nation.
Even here at Frostburg State University, the college had its own reflection to do. The campus of Frostburg is built where the town of Brownsville, a community for freed Black people to live, used to be. When the campus was constructed, it displaced all of the families that lived there and forced them to find somewhere new to live. Obviously, the campus can’t be torn down to rebuild the community so Frostburg went a different route to rectify and atone for the past. Whereas several monuments of Confederate leaders and other symbols of an outdated ideology across the country are being torn down, in Frostburg, a monument was built to acknowledge the community of Brownsville and serve as a symbol of representing the past.
This is the way to move forward towards a more unified future. As a people, we are much more united than we were in those times. Not by harping on the past which held us down, but by acknowledging it and learning from it. History is supposed to be a teaching moment to lift us up, not hold us down. We can’t repeat the same mistakes as our ancestors. We recognize that all people are equal and all people deserve basic human rights.
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