How Did We Get Here?
Ally Purcell
Issue date: 4/16/08 Section: News
The average college student at Frostburg State University spends at least four academic years in the mountains of Allegheny County. Months at a time are spent in the area yet how much do students really know about Frostburg and its surrounding communities?
In the past several weeks numerous incidents have occurred in the city of Cumberland. With these occurrences, controversies have risen, ultimately causing disagreement between various individuals in the area. A public school in downtown Cumberland has just recently banned the display of the confederate flag on school grounds. This new policy has been issued due to reoccurring racist and discriminating actions aimed towards the African American study body.
These events have involved students of all ages, parents, the Board of Education, and the entire population of Allegheny County. With this issue becoming largely evident in the area and with controversy left with no resolution, one may ask… How did we get here? Are discriminating, hateful thoughts and actions something you learn around your kitchen table or something you learn at the lunch table in school?
With this question in mind, individual community members have begun to express their thoughts and their personal opinions on the matter, along with the assistance and support of FSU students and university members.
Robin Woods, a resident of Cumberland, is troubled by the thoughts and actions of adolescents in the area and by the opinions some of his fellow community members hold. In turn of these recent events, Woods along with other residents of the area have created a Concerned Citizens Coalition. The Concerned Citizens Coalition is an organization that has created itself upon the fight against hate.
Agreeing with the ban of the Confederate Flag from the single school in the area, Woods states that, "Concerned Citizens wants the confederate flag to be banned from all public high schools, middle and elementary school in Allegheny County." Woods continues to state, "The citizens group is not only for banning the Confederate Flag, but for banning any other symbol that represents hate or racism in its historical background."
In the past several weeks numerous incidents have occurred in the city of Cumberland. With these occurrences, controversies have risen, ultimately causing disagreement between various individuals in the area. A public school in downtown Cumberland has just recently banned the display of the confederate flag on school grounds. This new policy has been issued due to reoccurring racist and discriminating actions aimed towards the African American study body.
These events have involved students of all ages, parents, the Board of Education, and the entire population of Allegheny County. With this issue becoming largely evident in the area and with controversy left with no resolution, one may ask… How did we get here? Are discriminating, hateful thoughts and actions something you learn around your kitchen table or something you learn at the lunch table in school?
With this question in mind, individual community members have begun to express their thoughts and their personal opinions on the matter, along with the assistance and support of FSU students and university members.
Robin Woods, a resident of Cumberland, is troubled by the thoughts and actions of adolescents in the area and by the opinions some of his fellow community members hold. In turn of these recent events, Woods along with other residents of the area have created a Concerned Citizens Coalition. The Concerned Citizens Coalition is an organization that has created itself upon the fight against hate.
Agreeing with the ban of the Confederate Flag from the single school in the area, Woods states that, "Concerned Citizens wants the confederate flag to be banned from all public high schools, middle and elementary school in Allegheny County." Woods continues to state, "The citizens group is not only for banning the Confederate Flag, but for banning any other symbol that represents hate or racism in its historical background."
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Jen
posted 4/17/08 @ 12:45 AM EST
This article is not very credible, or prehaps its the writer and lack of double checking the facts, whichever the cause Frostburg is located in Allegany County, Maryland. (Continued…)
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