Maryland college discovers racist graffiti. So they do the reasonable thing ... and cancel classes.

Officials at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland, canceled classes Thursday after discovering "racist" graffiti in academic buildings a day before.

What are the details?

An Associated Press report on Friday revealed that the graffiti threatened black students with lynching and more.

Salisbury University President Charles A. Wight announced that classes would be canceled because of the incident in order to afford students the "opportunity to come together to process" the incident. The school announced the availability of support services such as the school's counseling center and the presence of therapy dogs.

Wight issued a statement condemning the act.

He wrote, "I was disheartened to learn today of another instance of racially charged and threatening graffiti on campus, this time in Henson Science Hall. The Salisbury University Police Department has launched an investigation into this new and distressing incident.

"As you have so emphatically demonstrated in recent months, hate and discrimination will not be tolerated on this campus," the statement continued. "I stand with you as we continue to navigate these difficult and unfortunate times."

Wight also proclaimed Thursday a "Day of Healing."

According to the Daily Times, the school's NAACP chapter said the graffiti depicted lynchings during Black History Month.

"Both the NAACP and Black Student Union say the vandalism had already been painted over," the outlet reported.

In November, the report added, the Salisbury Police Department responded to a call to investigate more racially charged graffiti as well as remarks about the 2012 mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

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What else?

Authorities have not determined who committed the vandalism, and it should be pointed out that some past incidents of racist graffiti have been hoaxes.

In 2018, authorities charged a black student with writing racist graffiti at a dorm on the campus of Goucher College in Baltimore. The graffiti in question included a swastika and a reference to the Ku Klux Klan with the last names of four black students, including his own.

In 2017, a similar incident occurred when a nonwhite student scrawled "White lives matter" and the N-word at a high school in Missouri.

The same year, authorities charged a black man with similar crimes at Eastern Michigan University.

The list goes on.