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So much for that post-racial America Obama was supposed to usher in. An anonymous vandal in Kentucky has been littering the University of Kentucky with elaborate, yet crude signs calling the President a ni**er. University of Kentucky officials are investigating two incidents in which someone hung signs that called President Barack Obama a racial epithet. On March 15, a professor noticed one such sign hanging on a door to the UK School of Law on South Limestone. He turned it in to campus police, who are investigating, said spokesman Jay Blanton. Early Thursday morning, third year law student Ches Clark said he found a sign affixed to a bus shelter on South Lime near Maxwelton Court. The sign said “How Do You Spell Ni**er? OBAMA.” The letters looked to be cut out of a menu, glued to another piece of paper and photocopied, Clark said. UK police could charge whoever posted the signs with third degree criminal mischief, Blanton said. It’s not clear whether anyone from UK was involved, but police are investigating because the first sign was on UK property, he said. Clark took the sign to his law-school class on racism and criminal law and posted a copy of it on his Facebook page. His law professor, Roberta Harding, said the sign looked juvenile, yet someone had gone to a lot of trouble to make it. The general sentiment in class was that whoever posted the sign should “get over” Obama being president, Harding said. “I think people were upset in a positive way,” she said. We’d never have imagined racists or rednecks in a place like Kentucky! SMH. Sadly enough, this is not the first time something like this has happened at the University of Kentucky. In 2008, two college-age men were arrested after hanging an effigy of Obama from a tree on the UK campus with a noose around its neck. Horrible. Source

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SMH: Racist Signs Found At University Of Kentucky Calling Obama N-Word