The new One World Trade Center, where 2,800 people died in the 9/11 attacks, is reportedly now riddled with ethnic and sexist slurs, said to be left there by the constructors of the building.
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Written with a black pen, the slurs were found all throughout the 104-story tower’s bathroom plywood.
“Whites only,” reads a Jim Crow-era taunt over the urinals in one bathroom of the 104-story building.
Another anonymous comment targets President Obama — who visited the construction site just last June: “Where’s Obama’s birth certificate!!!!”
According to the NY Daily News, the N-word is written everywhere. One slur says that the Irish need to take baths. And many more attack African American women.
The most vile comments are near the top of the gleaming structure that will have 15,000 window panels when it opens in 2014. There, the breathtaking view is tempered by the vile commentary, the insider told The News.
While some effort was made to paint over the vitriol, neither Tishman Construction nor the Port Authority make it a priority, the insider said. And the racist writers are relentless.
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The NY Daily News posted some of those scribbles here.
Shouldn’t city officials be doing more to address the comments that were left there by the building’s workers inside of this American symbol of resilience and togetherness?
SOURCE: NY Daily News
