N-word written in the snow at Idaho black history museum

Somebody wrote the N-word within the snow on high of a storage unit on the Idaho Black Historical past Museum.

Phillip Thompson, the museum's board president and govt director, mentioned he noticed it Wednesday morning.

"I noticed it and I nearly chuckled, however I used to be additionally shocked," Thompson advised CNN affiliate KBOI. "What they did was pointless (given how chilly it's)."

Thompson's not making a police report, reasoning the cops would not have the ability to do something about it and that "they've far more vital issues to do."

Additionally, this is not the primary time the ability's been hit by hate. In 2002, vandals drew a swastika on the constructing's doorways.

An enormous coronary heart

However at any time when ugliness rears its head, the goodness involves counter it.

One museum supporter, repulsed by the slur, left a message of her personal within the snow.

By dragging her footwear alongside the bottom, Kirsten Furlong drew a large coronary heart within the museum's entrance yard.

"The hate simply spreads. That is why we've to cease it and take motion," she mentioned. "There's much more individuals who do not agree with that message, so these individuals should act."

Thompson mentioned the truth that individuals proceed to depart racial slurs proves that the museum's said mission -- to construct bridges between cultures -- continues to be legitimate.

"Individuals wish to (act) like this does not exist, or act in such a approach that we're previous this," he mentioned. "And we're not."