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One World Trade Center Graffiti Is Also Racist, Sexist, And Anti-Semitic (PHOTO)

The Racist Graffiti At One WTC
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Last week the Associated Press detailed the hopeful and defiant messages scrawled by construction workers on the iron and concrete of One World Trade Center.

This week, a New York Daily News "exclusive" sheds light on the other graffiti at the city's tallest building: the racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic vitriol written on the plywood walls of the temporary men's bathrooms, located on every fifth floor of the 104-story skyscraper.

“Most of it’s racial,” a source at One WTC told the News of the workers' messages. “Most of it — I mean, there’s a lot of stuff with the N-word. But pretty much every race is covered: Spanish people, Irish people, Jewish people, women.”

Some of the graffiti lowlights:

"Whites Only!"

"Where's Obama's birth certificate!!!"

"Irish: Take a bath you smelly f**s."

“Woman don’t belong in construction! Maybe painting, that’s it. Then who’s gonna (perform a sex act on) us?”

Want to read more awfulness? Head over to the "Tower Of Hate" exclusive. Or, as one News commenter notes, check out any public restroom in the city.

"Racist and sexist comments scrawled on bathroom walls," writes BZORN22. "Really. Check out any public toilet in NY and maybe even in the world and you will see the same thing. In other news the sun came up in East this morning."

Meanwhile, workers are busy building the 800-ton, 408-foot spire that will sit atop the high-rise, set to be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.

One World Trade Center is expected to be open for business in 2014, over 12 years after the attacks of September 11th destroyed the Twin Towers, killing more than 2,800 people.

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Before You Go

WTC Messages Of Hope
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In this Jan. 15, 2013 photo, autographs cover a wall on a top floor of One World Trade Center in New York. Construction workers finishing New York's tallest building at the World Trade Center are leaving their personal marks on the concrete and steel in the form of graffiti. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (credit:AP)
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This Jan. 15, 2013 photo shows graffiti left by visitors to the World Trade Center on a steel column on the 104th floor of One World Trade Center in New York. Construction workers finishing New York's tallest building at the World Trade Center are leaving their personal marks on the concrete and steel in the form of graffiti. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (credit:AP)
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This Jan. 15, 2013 photo shows graffiti left by workers on a steel column on the 104th floor of One World Trade Center in New York. Construction workers finishing New York's tallest building at the World Trade Center are leaving their personal marks on the concrete and steel in the form of graffiti. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (credit:AP)
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This Jan. 15, 2013 photo shows Spanish graffiti left by a worker on a steel column on the 104th floor of One World Trade Center in New York. Construction workers finishing New York's tallest building at the World Trade Center are leaving their personal marks on the concrete and steel in the form of graffiti. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (credit:AP)
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This Jan. 15, 2013 photo shows graffiti left by Michael Chertoff, the former director of Homeland Security, on a steel column on the 104th floor of One World Trade Center in New York. Construction workers finishing New York's tallest building at the World Trade Center are leaving their personal marks on the concrete and steel in the form of graffiti. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (credit:AP)
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This Jan. 15, 2013 photo shows drawing of a car on the 104th floor of One World Trade Center in New York. Construction workers finishing New York's tallest building at the World Trade Center are leaving their personal marks on the concrete and steel in the form of graffiti. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (credit:AP)
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FILE- This Aug. 2, 2012 file photo shows President Barack Obama's message and signature on a steel beam at One World Trade Center in New York. The presidents words will join those of numerous construction workers at the site who left personal messages on the beams, when they will be sealed behind the facade of the buildings as they progress toward their 2014 completion date. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) (credit:AP)
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This Jan. 15, 2013 photo shows a tribute in graffiti to Lilian Fredricks that a construction worker left on a steel column on the 104th floor of One World Trade Center in New York. Fredericks was killed in the 2001 terror attacks. Workers finishing New York's tallest building at the World Trade Center are leaving their personal marks on the concrete and steel in the form of graffiti. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (credit:AP)
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In this Jan. 15, 2013 photo, Antony," left his graffiti on a steel column on the 102nd floor of One World Trade Center in New York. Workers finishing New York's tallest building at the World Trade Center are leaving their personal marks on the concrete and steel in the form of graffiti. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (credit:AP)
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