Racist graffiti was found etched into a stall in one of the boys’ bathrooms at Mathews High School last week, with the Mathews NAACP taking school administration to task for what the group viewed as a slow response to the situation.

NAACP chapter president Edith Turner said she was alerted to the situation last Wednesday, Jan. 10, when she received a photo of the racially motivated vandalism. “It was a threat against African-Americans that read ‘kill n…..s’,” Turner said.

Turner immediately brought this to the attention of MHS principal Dr. Andrew Greve, who, Turner said, did not know about the graffiti. She also notified the superintendent of Mathews County Public Schools Dr. David Daniel, and Mathews County Sheriff April Edwards, neither of whom had been made aware of the incident. “By this time, the offending words had been covered over by high school personnel,” Turner said.

According to Turner, when asked who was responsible for the incident, Greve told Turner that the s...