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Apr 10, 2008 8:59 am US/Eastern
East Falls School Mural Ruined By Racist Graffiti
PHILADELPHIA (AP) ―
A
mural at a Philadelphia
elementary school has been painted over after being defaced by racist graffiti.
The vandalism at the Thomas
Mifflin School
in the city's East
Falls neighborhood was
discovered Wednesday morning. School district spokesman Vincent Thompson says
the faces of the black children on a mural depicting diversity were marked out.
Also, swastikas and other racist markings were painted on the outside walls.
School district west region superintendent
Shirl Gilbert says security guards saw the graffiti before most children showed
up for school and covered it with paper. Gilbert says the mural was destroyed
when workers painted it over later Wednesday.
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