A Black Chester County farmer said her business was targeted with racist and antisemitic graffiti.
A Black James Beard award-winner discovered racist and antisemitic graffiti on her Chester County farmChrista Barfield, the founder of Farmer Jawn, poses in the Westtown Township barn where her team discovered hateful graffiti this month., took broad strokes of brown paint to the hateful messages splayed across the barn’s walls after discovering them in May. One message included the N-word; another said “Jews,” slashed through with a large X.
So far, the only development at the building this summer is the addition of security cameras, which Barfield said the Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department offered to help install after a detective visited the farm last week.“I was shocked, disgusted, I was shaking,” said Armen Caravantes, FarmerJawn’s livestock manager who first came across the symbol while tending to chickens.
“This hateful act stands in stark contrast to the values of respect, inclusion, community, and belonging that our school upholds,” Benbow said. “We remain committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment across our entire campus and unequivocally condemn acts of hate.”
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