The African Burial Ground Monument in New York City Was Vandalized On Thursday

The African Burial Ground Monument in New York City was vandalized on Thursday with a racist message suggesting African-Americans should be killed, according to multiple reports.

New York police said the Manhattan monument was defaced with the word "kill" followed by a racial slur written in black marker, The New York Times reported. The message was immediately cleaned off after it was reported. 

Police have not yet identified a suspect but the New York Police Department Hate Crime Task Force is looking through security footage, according to NBC New York.

The monument marks a burial ground containing an estimated 15,000 skeletal remains of colonial African-Americans from New York City. Many of those buried were slaves.

The African Burial Ground Monument is considered a sacred site for the country's African-American population, the Times reported. It was established in 2009 and holds the remains of free and enslaved Africans from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The vandalism occurred hours before police responded to reports that a Brooklyn synagogue was defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti hours before "Broad City" star Ilana Glazer was set to hold an event. 

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“Each day is getting worse,” said Hazel N. Dukes, the president of the New York State conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

According to a report from California University’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, hate crimes have increased in major American cities over the last two years.

There were 339 hate crimes reported in New York City in 2017, according to the report. This year, 290 hate crimes in the city have been reported to the Police Department.

Sadly there will still be people who will blame the media on dividing America or will still claim that racism doesn't exist.  I'm glad the writing was cleaned off, but it's scary to know people like this is running around in America.