Andy Frye has a message for African-Americans in Riverview, and others who saw or heard about, the racist graffiti spray-painted on the I-26 bridge at Meadowview in Kingsport in April of 2009.

"I want to publically and formally apologize to everybody about the graffiti," says Frye. With his trial now finished and judgment rendered, he sat down with the Douglass Website for the first interview he's done, since the graffiti was discovered in April of 2009.

Our first question was obvious.

Did you do it? Did you actually spray-paint the graffiti on the bridge?

"Yeah.. unfortunately," he sighed quietly. "It was a dumb, stupid thing to do, and it is so not like me to do something like that."


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