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Portland rabbi says he turned racist graffiti into message of love

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 On Sunday, Rabbi Brian Zachary Mayer posted on Facebook, "I\’m sitting in my garage. I\’m shaken. Anti-Semitic and hate was written on the ground outside my door this morning."

Mayer wrote that on Sunday, he found racist graffiti in chalk outside his Portland home. He said he was talking on the phone to his sister when, "\’Oh, look,\’ I said to her off-handedly. \’Antisemitic chalk outside my house. And some backwards swastikas.\’"

After spending the morning thinking about how to deal with the graffiti, Mayer wrote, "We go outside. Annie \’calls\’ using the hose first. She erases half. Emmett does the other half. Neighbors join us. We adorn the wet pavement with hearts. Solidarity is felt."

His post on Facebook has now been shared over 780 times. "It\’s gone cray cray," Mayer said over the phone Monday.

"I could see how people get addicted to this because it\’s exhilarating," he said, "but I\’m going to go back to life."

According to Mayer, his house was not the only one in the neighborhood that was tagged with racist chalk graffiti. He said another house down the street also had a racial slur written in front of it.

"I think it was random," said Mayer. "We live on a diverse block."

Mayer said he reported the hate speech to the police but, "I said no this should not escalate."

We reached out to police but they have not yet been able to confirm this interaction.

"This was a random act of hatred," said Mayer, "that can be combated only with random acts of love."

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