Rocco Wright said he found his SoHo art space vandalized this week with the name "Black Wall Street Gallery" defaced and covered in white paint.

"It was very intentional and so far as there were no other businesses with vandalism, but also it was one space, it was the vinyl lettering that read 'Black Wall Street Gallery,'" said Wright.

The gallery's current exhibit is called 21 Piece Salute, a tribute to the victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the community once called Black Wall Street.  Wright says the timing of the vandalism was no accident.

"It suggested that there was somebody who didn't support the success of a Black entrepreneur, who was aware of the history of Black Wall Street and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre because this happened exactly 100 years to the date," said Wright.

Wright said he believes it happened sometime between late Sunday night and early Monday morning. Now the NYPD's hate crimes task force is handling the investigation.

“New Yorkers are able to see that racism still exists, and it exists in New York City," said Wright.

Wright said he won't be intimidated, and is planning to leave the vandalism as it is to send his own message.

"I'm going to leave that white paint smeared on the window and I'm going to put another sticker above it that reads 'Black Wall Street Gallery' and they can try and do that again," Wright said. "Then, we'll put another one up because we go high when they go low."