Hundreds of angry students at York University gave their president the boot from a meeting to talk about racist graffiti found on school grounds.

The "N" word, along with "Go Back To Africa", were scrawled on the door of the Black Student's Alliance (BSA) on Tuesday. 

Even more upsetting for the students was the University's lack of response. E-mails and calls to York Administration went unanswered, and when the school's president showed up to the rally, he was asked to leave.

"I know that there's a message on your website right now deploring the statements. I thank you for that. But it came too late.I had to set up a Facebook message first before York did anything about it," said the BSA's Zannalyn Robest.

When asked why it took so long to respond to the graffiti, York University president Mamdouh Shoukri responded, "It did not take days. I think is what it took is a day. It may have taken a little longer. I accept that. That should not happen in the future."

The graffiti has now been removed, but the students feel that the incident is part of a bigger problem in the city of Toronto.

"There is anti-black sentiment across the city," Robest adds, pointing to racist letters targeting some black corrections officers at the Don Jail as an example.

"Why do they do nothing? Why do people have to leave their work? Why do people have to quit their jobs for the issue to become a major issue?"