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Hate crimes
We're better than our graffiti
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Great Bend residents routinely call the police to report that their cars or garages have been splattered with eggs or paint balls, and usually they’re advised to wash everything off and call back if there was any actual damage. Sadly, vandals took it up a notch this week by writing racial slurs on the vehicles of a black family.In a town where, according to the 2010 census, 84 percent of the population is white and only 1.7 percent is African American, some jerks apparently thought it would be funny to single out a black family. They scrawled the “N-word,” “I hate blacks,” a swastika, what appears to be a pentagram, and something that is either a trident symbol, an upside peace sign without the circle, a bird track or a wheat shock on a car window.