The Nation : Lincoln Tomb Vandalized

Vandals spray-painted racist slogans and symbols on Abraham Lincoln’s Tomb in Springfield, Ill., over the weekend, but state officials said they hope to have the graffiti removed by April 14, the 122nd anniversary of his assassination. The red-and-white graffiti, which covers about two-thirds of the monument’s west side, was part of wider vandalism in the Oak Ridge Cemetery, police said. “It says ‘white power’ and there’s a flaming cross and things you couldn’t print in the paper,” said a site supervisor for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, which oversees the tomb.