The record establishes that the word

“Nigger” on the door of the school’s

only African–American teacher

carried with it

a violent connotation.

          The word produced

a sense of apprehension,

          terror, and fear

in the teacher. The even more descriptive

words “Kill the Niggers,”

written on the music

building where a number of African–

American students gathered, was reasonably

interpreted as a direct, violent threat

          to those students.