WRAL:
A southeastern Wake County community was incensed Monday after learning that racial slurs and obscenities were scribbled across three sides of a home in their neighborhood.
“They’re not taking a strike at one family. They’re taking a strike at a whole community,” said Dorothy Smith, who lives next door to the Trouble Road home that had been vandalized.
Authorities said the incident happened late Saturday, prompting the homeowner, Veronica Brown, and her four children to stay with relatives for a couple of days.
Brown said she believes the vandals are teenage girls targeting her 13-year-old daughter.
I’ll be interested to see what happens with this. If the suspects are caught, their race will be a part of the story no matter what — the implication is always present at the beginning that such an act is an outcropping of white racism.
Given that the one graffito pictured the story reads “I’m in the KKK [word obscured],” placed on a house in a “predominantly African-American” neighborhood, that implication seems unlikely (although I could be mistaken, of course). Not infrequently the apparent act of racial intimidation is a “hate hoax.” Regardless, here’s hoping the vandals are caught soon.
