Kathleen Moore reports for the Times Union that North Colonie schools Superintendent D. Joseph Corr said, in an "act of hideous, overt racism," someone wrote racial slurs outside of the only school in the district led by a black administrator. The vandalism occurred at Forts Ferry Elementary School, in an area where there are no security cameras, Corr said. The vandal also shattered a window at a back entrance and drew obscene pictures on the exterior walls of the school. Maintenance workers discovered the damage on October 30, and they were able to remove the graffiti that evening. Police are investigating. Principal Casey Parker was at work, greeting students as usual on Oct. 31. Parker taught previously in the Albany schools, and served as a principal and building administrator in the Troy schools. He was appointed principal of Forts Ferry in July and is the only black principal in the district, where 62 percent of the students are white and seven percent are black. In a statement, Corr said the district "will not shy away from the fact that this act occurred at Forts Ferry where Dr. Parker, a Black man, became principal in July. We need to recognize the ugliness and pain of this moment and we must, in word and deed, stand up and say racism has no place in our schools." Corr asked the community to join with him and "denounce this hatred." Read the full story in the Times Union.