11:41am

Thu July 14, 2011
Eastern and Central Kentucky

Berea Reacts to Discrimination

Credit Mark Cornelison / Lexington Herald-Leader
Damon Dunson and Melanie Stamper of Berea woke last week to find someone had painted racial slurs on their vehicles. "You just wouldn't imagine the emotions that run through you," she said

When Damon Dunson and Melanie Stamper of Berea woke up one morning last week, they said they couldn't believe that someone had used spray paint and markers to write racial slurs on their vehicles. "I was angry, but at the same time I knew whoever did it was ignorant," said Dunson, who is black. "They spelled the n-word three different ways," said Stamper, his girlfriend, who is white. The message left on Stamper's Jeep, she said, told her to get out of the neighborhood.