A light so heavy a white so wrong prowl the chapel piss on the lawn leave your manifesto five words scrawled what is it ok to be it’s ok to be small we must forgive you but we will fight it’s ok to be wrong it’s better to be right do not come here again at dark at rest anything worth saying should be said as our guest.

Houston’s Rothko Chapel vandalized with paint, handbills: ‘It’s okay to be white’ — May 21, 2018

“Part of our response is to keep on doing what we do every day.”

The hope, he said, is that those responsible “will be caught and will come forward” and ask themselves the kinds of questions the chapel and its programs mean to provoke. “What is the motivation for the act? What is it that caused you to do it? And what is it that needs to take place to figure out another way to look at the world?”

He concedes that “we may never get to that point. But that is the hope that I would have out of all this.”