The "more colors, more Pride" rainbow doors were tagged with a hateful message for the second time this year.

A church in Charlotte, North Carolina has once again been targeted by bigoted vandals.

Wedgewood Church was tagged with two racist messages. Painted over its rainbow color doors, done in the style of the “more colors, more Pride” design, which promotes racial inclusivity within the queer community, reads, “Free Kekistan” in capital letters.

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The vandal or vandals also spray-painted, “It’s okay to be white” on the back side of the building.

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Both messages are associated with the so-called “alt-right” and white nationalists. Kekistan is a fictional location where oppressed people are said to live. It is implemented as a way to mock political correctness and sensitivity to cultures and nationalities other than one’s own.

An explainer video from the Southern Poverty Law Center follows.





The act comes on the heels of President Donald Trump declaring himself a nationalist during a stump speech in Texas.

“We should have this on our surveillance video—but they may have been smart enough to avoid cameras,” co-pastor Chris Ayers wrote on Facebook. “So saddened.”

The church has a camera at the front entrance by the doors, as well as one on the side of the building.

The doors had just been repainted merely weeks ago, according to the church, necessary because earlier this year it was tagged with an anti-gay message.

“Heart-piercing was the thing that came to my mind,” Ayers told local LGBTQ publication QNotes at the time.

“I really didn’t think about the church. I thought about the LGBT friends that I have. As a pastor, you hear all of these horrible stories for all these years. Everything is put in the context of these personal rejections that I know people have faced and this is just one more.”

A similar homophobic message was spray-painted on the doors in 2015, and last year an individual, who later confessed, taped a bullet casing and an offensive letter to the church’s sign when it read, “Stop killing, disrespecting black people.”

UPDATE:

Ayers told New Now Next they do have footage of the individual who vandalized the church and it has been turned over to the police.

“Jesus focused on the marginalized and the plundered,” Ayers noted. “So while it’s okay to be white, God calls us to say it’s okay to be African-American, okay to be trans, okay to be LGBTQ, okay to be an immigrant seeking a better life.”

“It is okay to be white. It is not okay to have advantages because of your whiteness. It is not okay to be tribal based on your whiteness. It is not okay to be racist. It not okay to celebrate a war that would have kept African-Americans enslaved,” he continued; concluding, “It is not okay for President Trump to promote hatred.”