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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Racial slurs and a swastika was spray painted on the garage of an 81-year-old man, and now the victim tells CBS13 that this isn’t the first time he’s been harassed.

The 81-year-old victim didn’t want to go on camera, but told CBS13 that he’s been harassed for years.

“They’re not going to move me out, I’m too old for that,” says Fred Clark.

Fred Clark’s garage was spray painted with racist graffiti reading “Move N-Word. White Power is here,” and then punctuated with a swastika.

From behind the security door, Clark shared with CBS13 that he’s been targeted with ongoing harassment for more than two years.

“They ring my bell, knock on the side of my house, and they used to park their car in front of my house and wouldn’t let me out,” says Clark.

Neighbors who live nearby say they’ve heard loud pounding on the wall in the middle of the night, but didn’t know whose home was being targeted.

“Sometimes at night we hear noises, people banging on the wall,” neighbors say.

Clark believes this is the work of a neighbor, but CBS13 was not able to contact that neighbor. But others say the vandalism is senseless.

“Hateful, hate for no reason, just hateful,” say neighbors.

People living in the complex right across from Consumes River College say they were not aware that this kind of hate could be lurking so close.

“It’s going to be 2011, and it seems like a huge step backwards,” one person told CBS13.

Police did come out to the scene and take a report, but could not find any witnesses and no arrests have been made.

But Clark says he has had to call police more than 15 times, and he’s hoping to finally get some help.

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  • Nosy

    Wow. Chicken neighbors or the whole neighborhood is racist. Either way, rather cowardly to pick on an old man. Let’s contact Jessie Jackson, NAACP, and ACLU because its time for chicken dinner. Lawsuits against all them aryan cowards.

  • Jacob David Friedman

    Stupid neo-nazis painted the swastika backwards. That’s a nice indicator of how stupid these narrow-minded fools are: they can’t even get their swastika right.

    I wonder if these are the same guys that defaced the Omri posters in Midtown.

  • john murphy

    This old guy is probably just trying to get some attention.

  • fabian falcon

    Has anyone thought of installing a security camera around this guy’s home? This is no brainer, dud.

  • Capt America

    ummm forget the swatiska where’s the “e” in white haha idiots I do however commend them on the grasp of pluralization with the apostrophe haha

  • dontbehatin

    Even more disturbing are the few racist cowards posting online here about this story within their nebulous, thinly veiled and seemingly schizoid word mincing.

  • galsaccal

    Poor man. By the look of the graffiti, it looks like it’s just some kids messing around giving the poor old man a hard time.

  • chris

    i will help u take it down if u want u can reach me at 916-370-5956 Mr Clark i will be glad to help u remove it and don’t let this mess up your holidays merry Christmas and god bless i will prey for u and Ur family

  • Capt Howdy

    spoken like a true idiot…good job!

  • Capt Howdy

    your stupidity is running wild!

  • Capt Howdy

    the swastika’s backwards…which is actually a native American peace sign.Look it up.

  • treadwell73

    for what im not the one who is a raciest but i will deal with it because this is getting real old but when a black speaks up its a problem white people just cant conform to reality we excepted everything from ,rape ,murder , hangings oh i forgot u want us to leave the past alone well take your own advice and stop blaming obama for George bushes collapsing of this country cuz it was good until he came but just like white people to put the blame on the black man u guys are inferior to the black race so go ride a horse u guys just admit it was bush Arnold and the rest the republicans who ruined this country. one quick question how many times in your life have u called a black man the n word?

  • tracie

    you sir, really sound like ur the racist one, may god bless you and your family and the old man who had to endure this type of foolishness.

  • Don Livingston

    LOSER WANNABE PEN PUNKS GET A LIFE BEFORE YOU GET LIFE

  • GetAlong

    Treadwell- you sound like you have some major personal issues… so would you kindly SHUT THE F UP!!! It’s ignorance like yours that keeps these kind of racist acts reoccuring. Lets all do our part to help eachother no matter what race/ethnicity/gender etc.

  • Modern White Guy

    With this last comment, you have been unmasked as a fraud, sir. It is painfully obvious that you are in fact a white power enthusiast posing as a racist black person in an underhanded attempt to convince folks that all black people are as vile and ignorant as you pretend to be.

  • AMW

    treadwell73 and JJ have to be the most ignorant people. treadwell73 you need to go back and read everything you wrote and then take a look in the mirror before you call anyone a racists you are on the same level of the stupid narrow minded idiots who did this. JJ you just sound stupid. Chris I applaud you, We need more people like you around.

  • Ant

    Wow, this is just sad. I cringe every time I hear about something like this because it always reminds me that this issue of racism is alive and well even here. Treadwell, you are only perpetuating the stereotype that all blacks are violent and ignorant. Use this forum for intelligent discussion with people about BOTH sides of this event. Feel sorry for the ignorance but learn from it. If you get caught up in the propaganda from either side, nobody wins. Don’t just pray for Mr. Clark, pray for the ignorance that did this. Chris, you are truly a good man. Bravo for actually offering to help.

  • so sick of this

    These idiots must be cowards trying to intimidate a elder, and harass him as they do, this is horrible. Why not try picking on someone else of your age? Oh I know why cause you to much of a coward to do so, it makes you feel big to bother a older gentleman. Grow up and get a life, go to school. RACISM NEEDS TO END

  • Color blind

    This is a shame that we still have this kind of stupidity in our world, that racism is still around. We have so many mixed races in this world there is no room for the racism, I guarantee you if these idiots looked thru their family history they would see they are not as pure as they think. If you are unhappy as to who your Neighbor is then why don’t you move. These ignorant idiots need to find something to do with there time, like go to school, spelling is needed!!! Open your eyes there is COLOR all over our World.

  • judge dred

    Once again the fascist news only reports storys like this..they would never talk about racist crime on white people which happens every day in this country.Many people get scared of such talk.

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  • Mkshay

    You are the exact example of the ignorance in this country. Drugs, racism, and killing each other knows no COLOR!! It is humans like you who keep racism alive.

  • warren95842

    Wow that’s sad racism should never be. People are humans no matter what race.this is not cool I hope they find the person that is doing that kind of stuff. Ignorance of racist people show just how stupid they really are. I’ve seen this before at my apartment complex and I told them kids off for being racist. I am so against racism its stupid immature and senseless.

  • The Patriot

    It’s obvious that ignorant fools wrote this… as drawn the “swastika” is a religious symbol used by many culters around the world, with the senter lines being 90 and 180 degrees.
    .
    The true swastika is turned at an angle to the left. If idiots need to be hateful and do things like this, they should at least do it right. Ignorance knows no bounds. That is obvious. True Nazi fanatics or idiot wannabes, they all are lower than a snakes belly. Get a real

  • The Patriot

    It’s obvious that ignorant fools wrote this… as drawn the “swastika” is a religious symbol used by many cultures around the world, with the center lines being 90 and 180 degrees.
    .
    The true swastika is turned at an angle to the left. If idiots need to be hateful and do things like this, they should at least do it right. Ignorance knows no bounds. That is obvious. True Nazi fanatics or idiot wannabes, they all are lower than a snakes belly. Get a real

  • Citizen

    It appears he may have done it himself for a publicity type stunt – at this very minute it is still on the garage. Any real situation the “victim” would have covered it up immediately. 3 days have passed and he has simply left it there untouched.

    The swastika was put backwards – obviously not the work of any true “white power” organization. As they would definitely know which way to put it.

    They were also in so much a hurry they didn’t even put the “e” on white – not because they can’t spell – whoever did it was obviously rushed. Look at how shaky and badly painted it is. They used 8′s for the g’s – which I found a little interesting.

    There are 6 garages all next to his – 4 of those houses are African American folk. This was either deliberately done to this specific individual due to his actions toward others, or it was simply done by the “victim” himself. If this was actually racially motivated there would be at least 4 painted garages right next to each other.

  • Citizen

    And another note – The entire neighborhood is majorly African American and Hispanic. Definitely Caucasian is the minority. The only Caucasian people who live around here are either adults with their families or college students attending the institution across the street.

  • color blind

    and who cares, who done what to who and why! It still was done to him weather he done something to someone else or not it still happen, you ever thought it was up there still, maybe because he is 81yrs old. Maybe you should get out there an be a good citizen and help. I guess he bangs on his own walls and parks other peoples cars in front of his garage to block him in as well. hmmm Really !, NOT!! great try

  • amw

    color blind thank u.. thank u for saying what everyone was thinking…

  • Helena

    Although we are in America and we do have freedom of a lot of things, this person does have the right to post anything on or in him home, I just wonder what he would do if the table was turned????

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