From racism against the Irish, blacks and South Americans, and misogyny, the graffiti found scrawled in the construction workers toilets at One World Trade Center has shocked New York City.
One piece of graffiti demands that Irish people 'take a bath ya smelly f****.’
The most shocking is “None Whites Only” and “Whites Only” written on urinals and the constant use of the “N word.”
One misspelled remark reads “Lame n**** be queit [sic].”
Another reads, “Woman [sic] don’t belong in construction! Maybe painting, that’s it…Then who’s gonna **** us?”
An insider told New York Daily News that the graffiti on the 104-story tower is believed to be the handiwork of the construction workers
Read more: World Trade Center graffiti reflects both Irish and American nationals - PHOTOS
“Most of it’s racial,” said the insider.
“Most of it - I mean, there’s a lot of stuff with the N-word. But pretty much every race is covered: Spanish people, Irish people, Jewish people, women.”
They said the “N-word” “is written all over the place, to be honest with you. That’s a big deal. It’s there.”
They estimated that 99 percent of the writing on the wall is negative remarks.
Saddened by the writing on the wall, the insider said, “We’re all supposed to be there as one, the whole 9/11 thing,” adding that the graffiti takes away from the sense of pride they have in working on this symbol of freedom in New York City.
Dermott Barber, charged with cleaning up the graffiti, told CBS Local these types of messages are common on construction sites.
“This is construction, I’ve seen this on many jobs that I go to. I’ve seen comments about black people, the N-word,” Barber said. “We spray paint it, spray paint right over it and clean it up as best as we can.”
Last week IrishCentral spoke to construction workers about the graffiti on the site.
For their part they only reported their own scribbling on the site including patriotic notes like “Up Kerry” and “Come on the Kingdom” but it would appear that not all the graffiti on site is quite so positive.
The $3.8 billion, 1,368 feet tall tower is part of the effort to memorize and rebuild the WTC after the 2001 Al-Qaeda attack.
In June 2012 President Barack Obama visited the site. He added to the graffiti writing, “We remember. We rebuild. We come back stronger!” on a steel beam.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Seanmor | Feb 03, 2013, 11:20 AM EST
I know of a case in which an Irish immigrant girl was subjected to great embarassment and humiliation by a nun whose own parents were from Ireland. The victim in this case was a secrety who was highly qualified and most efficient, having much knowledge of computers and sounded very professional on the phone. Her supervising nun couldn't accept thishign degre of proficiemncy in anyone who came from what she perceived as misary, povrty, drugery and starvation in Ireland and felt this Irish employee should be 'cut down to size'. One day while the secretary stepped out of the office, the nun placed a half boiled, half rotten potato on her desk to remind her of her Famine background. This 'trick' worked and the poor girl was greatly hurt, offended and humiliated - to the delight of the nun and herfellow full blooded,real Americans.
Smyrnian | Feb 01, 2013, 09:33 AM EST
Stevenstar - well, I am Irish born and I have heard some rot inIreland about Americans and others; usually uninformed crap, much of it by people, including my own relatives, who have never been a mile from a cowsh-t in their lives.
STEVENSTAR | Jan 30, 2013, 09:36 PM EST
IM IRISH AND YOU SHOULD HERE WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT AMERICANS OVER HERE IN IRELAND SO LETS FACE IT WE CAN ALL BE A LITTLE RACIST WHEN WE WANT TO BE AN I THINK ITS JUST PEOPLE HAVING OPINIONS AND THATS HEALTHY !!! I HOPE WE IN IRELAND NEVER GET THAT POLITICAL, UPTIGHT CORRECTNESS YE GO ON WITH OVER THERE !!!
anglo-norman | Jan 29, 2013, 11:43 PM EST
curtis- rent-a- mope
curtisjohnson | Jan 29, 2013, 08:46 PM EST
Yeah, because anonymous ethnic slurs exemplify anglo manhood (along with the abuse of the defenceless).
anglo-norman | Jan 29, 2013, 06:27 PM EST
It's a man's world
granlol210 | Jan 29, 2013, 05:38 PM EST
The more attention people give to this kind of behavior the worse it will get. Try and ignore people who do this they are just trying to see how many people they piss off. It's not nice but maybe they're nuts or it's their idea of a joke. Don't let it offend you.
SingleDonald | Jan 29, 2013, 12:29 PM EST
This is sickening! I'm sure there are anti-Italian slurs in that tower as well, but who has time to go to every floor? All should keep in mind the low intelligence level and low decency of these individuals. No, not all construction workers are of this ilk. However, there seems to be a large minority among them that gets its kicks by vilifying ethnicities other than their own!
cillowen | Jan 29, 2013, 11:32 AM EST
England's handiwork and carried forward by loving Cousin across the pond. It seems that Irish slavery has escaped many texts, and therefore the entire education of many. Surprised to learn that there were Irish Slaves in the Caribbean? Over 100,000 young children who were orphans or had been taken from their Catholic parents, were sent abroad into slavery in the West Indies, Virginia, and New England, that they might lose their faith and all knowledge of their nationality, for in most instances even their names were changed.
johnshiel | Jan 29, 2013, 10:31 AM EST
union work site, right? unions the monetary ballast of democrat party, yeah? democrats the bastion of political correctness, true? so. what's up with THAT...
Seanmor | Jan 29, 2013, 10:07 AM EST
Are these scurrilous bits of grafffiti protected by 'freedom of speech'? Since the mainstream media considered it acceptable for the 2008 Democratic presidential candidate's favorite clergyman to say from the pulpit: "I call on God to damn America", it ought to be equally acceptable for someone to write that the Irish should take a bath (when needed).
slainte9 | Jan 29, 2013, 10:00 AM EST
For all they know, its just two or three knuckleheads doin this.
handsome68 | Jan 29, 2013, 09:37 AM EST
This is not newsworthy, unless you consider back when one was a child writing something like "Sister Mary wears combat boots" to be newsworthy.
jackinnj | Jan 29, 2013, 08:51 AM EST
Soccer hooligans from Birmingham or Manchester. It's good to be reminded that they didn't roll out the welcome mat when our forebears arrived. My young men were never called "dirty micks", but my great-grandfather certainly was.