Meharry Medical College announced a “non-violent hate crime” occurred on its campus, after racist graffiti was found in a parking garage.

The message read, “[N-word]s should die.”

A still unidentified person wrote it on a remote part of the parking garage on Albion Street. That also houses parking for Nashville General Hospital and a VA clinic.

“We do not tolerate hate and will fiercely defend the welfare and dignity of our community,” Meharry President and CEO Dr. James Hildreth said in a written statement. “This abhorrent act will not shake who we are—and have been—for almost 150 years.”

Meharry was founded in 1876 and is one of the oldest medical schools in the country. For decades, Meharry and Howard University were the only medical schools in the country that trained Black doctors

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