The pettiness of racist graffiti can be gnawing. Its results can be nerve racking.
Mica Contreras, Justice and Equity Program organizer for Community Alliance of Lane County (CALC), has, along with others, seen what they believe is an increase in graffiti vandalism directed at people of color and organizations that exist to assist them.
This has included a recent case of a spray-painted noose with the n-word accompanying it on a car in the Santa Clara area.
“Hate crimes can escalate in a community when they are not met with strong resistance,” Contreras tells
Eugene Weekly.
Graffiti vandalism hit CALC in the last week of February when it struck a youth mural, “The People’s Resistance,” in front of the CALC building.