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HATE SPEECH Local activist group says racist graffiti found on a play structure in Santa Margarita Community Park in December 2020, is evidence of racism within the community.
Ryan Alaniz told
New Times, he took his 4-year-old son outside to play at the Santa Margarita Community Park on Dec. 23 to get some energy from being outdoors.
Alaniz, a SLO County resident and associate professor in sociology at Cal Poly, said his son requested that he stand with him at the top of the slides. When he got to the top Alaniz saw graffiti on the inside of the play structure that said "FUCK BLM" and "hail Hitler" alongside a racial slur and a swastika symbol.