Guided by Hurtado et al.'s (2012) Multi-Contextual Model for Diverse Learning Environments, this qualitative case study examined Black graduate students' perceptions of a university president's responses to racialized incidents. Data were analyzed on an institutional level through institutional documents and presidential statements and individually through interviews with 12 Black graduate students from the University of Maryland, College Park. The findings were displayed through narrative summaries and demonstrate how Black graduate students felt othered, marginalized, and silenced due to the president's responses to racialized incidents. Findings show the lack of institutional response strategies that the president used and how participants viewed the president's responses to racialized incidents as untimely, inadequate, and inappropriate. The president's responses through campus statements underscored nonperformative and anti-Blackness rhetoric from the participants' vantage point, displaying a lack of action-oriented language, next steps, and strategies to assist them during the aftermath of the incidents. This study further illustrates the significance of the presidency's role when addressing race and racism issues and how their responses have the power to disrupt or harm the personal lived experiences of Black graduate students. Broader implications for practice and recommendations for theory and future research are offered.