Residents in Guilford, Connecticut are reacting with outrage after someone spotted anti-Asian American slurs spray painted on a home there, reports Zip06.
The graffiti was quickly removed after being reported by a resident on Facebook.
“While on my run this morning I saw racial slurs spray painted on a house near downtown,” the post read. “It made me feel sick and incredibly protective and angry that this would happen in our town.”
The Guilford Foundation immediately contacted the Anti-Defamation League for assistance.
“The purpose of that would be to provide some sort of a positive solution, positive response, positive learning opportunity, to come together around some of these issues,” said Liza Janssen Petra, the wife of the man who reported the vandalism on Facebook. “This is not something that will be tolerated or accepted and it is an opportunity for education and growth. This is not how we act or behave in Guilford and it is something we as a community need to address.”
Judy Cordes has lived in Guilford for 40 years.
“I don’t understand it,” she said to NBC Connecticut. “It sounds horrible, and I hope that the authorities find out who it is and stop it because this isn’t that type of community.”
Petra described her husband as “sickened.”
“Because it’s our community and that kind of language is not tolerated,” she said.
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RE: Slurs aimed at Asian Americans Spray painted onto Connecticut Home: Hope they find out who did it and draw attention to them so others might either educate them or expose them for what they are trying to do in that community. It only takes one bad apple to spoil the whole bunch!