Recently, it was found under "The White Tree" in Jena, Louisiana, and caused a national outcry.

And then it sent the Ivy League campus of Columbia University into a frenzy.

And now, the noose – a longtime symbol of racial hatred – has been found around Tupac's neck.

The Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts in Stone Mountain, Georgia was vandalized on two separate occasions this past weekend, and one man has been arrested in connection with the acts, according to published reports.

During the early morning hours on Saturday, vandals defaced the building and tied a noose around the neck of the Bronze statue of the slain hip-hop icon that sits in the Center's Peace Garden.

And then on Monday morning, the statue was once again vandalized when fliers bearing "garbled rants" about 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina were plastered all over it.

The fliers were also said to contain vague threats directed at certain rappers and record companies.

One unidentified man is in police custody, and the Dekalb County Sheriff's office is investigating both acts as hate crimes.

What in the world is going on?

Shakur has been deceased since September 1996.

Yet still he is a symbol of greatness for many of the hip-hop generation.

"We thank everyone for their prayers and support," Shakur's mother Afeni Shakur said in a statement. "Although our hearts are temporarily in pain, our spirits have already forgiven the perpetrators."

"Hate comes in all colors and genders therefore we will use this act of hate and ignorance to bring our community together and to pray for the healing of those who harbor such feelings," she continued. "With God's guidance, the work of the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts and Peace Garden will continue to positively impact and transform our community."

According to a spokesperson, The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation is now in the process of raising money to construct a fence around the parameters of the Center to prevent these types of incidents from occurring again.