SR: Stop it!

In this AM’s editorial, Bert Caldwell/SR comments:

Stop it!

Apparently, the racist who spray-painted the N-word on the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center early Tuesday did not hear president-elect Donald Trump’s call Sunday to those misinterpreting his victory as a license to hate.

It’s unfortunate it even needed saying, but since the election there has been a lot of lashing out by supporters and opponents, to the discredit of both sides.

The sneak attack on the MLK center was not the only local incident. A gay Washington State University student found his vehicle tagged with slurs.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Washington trails only California and Texas in the number of hate incidents reported since last Tuesday. The good news was a steep fall in such reports by Monday. More here.