Information leading to the arrest of whoever spray-painted a racial slur at the entrance to Lincoln University will earn a $1,000 reward, which is being offered by Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan and the Chester County Chamber of Business & Industry.
On Thursday, Feb. 19, security officials at Lincoln, located in southern Chester County, discovered that someone had spray-painted the slur on a sign at the university’s entrance, a press release from the District Attorney’s office said.
“This vandalism is not only shocking, it is offensive,” Chamber President Guy Ciarrocchi said in the release. “It is even worse when the targets are students. These students are here to grow and contribute to society. They deserve much better. We stand not only with the District Attorney’s Office, but with the vast majority of Chester County residents and business owners who want Lincoln’s students to feel welcome.”
Hogan added that neither racism nor the ignorance it requires would be tolerated in Chester County. “Whether the university is Villanova, Penn State, or Lincoln, such behavior is unacceptable in a civilized society,” he said. “It is a crying shame that a university named after Abraham Lincoln has been subjected to this type of disrespect.”
Horace Bond, the eighth president of the university, said Lincoln was the first institution anywhere in the world “to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for male youth of African descent.” Poet Langston Hughes and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall are among the university’s graduates.
Anyone with information is requested to call Chester County Detective Edward Nolan at 610-344-6866.
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