An iconic University of Tennessee rock was painted with an anti-Semitic message. It was covered up with words of love

'In one week, the Rock has brought out the best and the worst.' An iconic University of Tennessee rock was painted with an anti-Semitic message. It was covered up with words of love

The Rock is open for individuals and groups to paint with their own messages.Earlier this week, Tennessee Volunteer fans painted it in tribute to a boy who'd been bullied for making his own fan T-shirt. But then, someone painted over it with a message saying"Jews did 9-11," CNN affiliate WATE reported.The university's chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity chapter posted an image of the anti-Semitic comment scrawled on the rock.

— UT Knoxville Alumni September 9, 2019 The first image on the Rock was the design of a homemade T-shirt created by a boy in Florida who was bullied at school for not having a real UT shirt during his school's college colors day.The story of the boy's shirt spread like wildfire -- a version put up for sale online through the campus bookstore fetched 16,000 pre-orders.But the University of Tennessee has had to rally against hateful messages painted on the Rock before.

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