Their Names Were...

Why is any encounter with a police officer too often a death sentence for black individuals in America? Why is the system, built to uphold the injustices of our world, still intact? Why are black people and their allies standing up for the racial injustices of the last two hundred years? Has America reached their boiling point?

Welcome to “Their Names Were…,” a page designed to educate the Frostburg community on the experiences that the majority of our community members will never have to go through. This is not news. This page will highlight the injustices black individuals in America face every day as they continue to live in a system that was never built to support them. The opinions expressed in each article are that of the author.

Thank you to those members of the Frostburg community who have exhibited the bravery to actually publish what they have held onto for so long. We hope that these stories, experienced by people so highly respected and regarded in our community, serve as a wake up call to those not understanding of the black experience in America.

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” We will choose to lend our platform to the oppressed. It is time to wake up, Frostburg.

If you are interested in submitting your own piece to “Their Names Were…,” please contact us at thebottomline@frostburg.edu.

I envy the people who live in bliss Whose eyes are blinded by the ignorance of this Fictional fairytale they’ve put us in But look behind that and there is the sin Of people who take lives just for fun And people who have no choice but to run Because

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Today was supposed to be a good day Until I turned on the news I check my phone Mass media is singing our blues Do I look away or sit and stare? Waiting for the next black life to be taken senselessly While a crowd watches the terror frozen on

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The children who watched Trayvon die and have watched endless black men die at the hands of police their entire childhood are now adults. These protests and riots are the product of a system that has failed an entire generation. The looting, for the most part, isn’t random – the

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This past week has been an awful one in this country. We have all witnessed how brutally immoral and wicked this country can get. It was perpetuated by the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who was pinned to the ground with an officer kneeling on his neck

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Their Names Were…