Some Americans make news every Halloween for dressing up in racist costumes,France Archives but some of this year's variety seem amplified by the campaign season.
A college football fan at Saturday's game between the University of Wisconsin and the University of Nebraska showed up wearing a President Barack Obama mask with a noose tied around the president's neck. The fan's friend, sporting a mask of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, was holding the other end of the rope.
SEE ALSO: Someone hung dummies near a Trump/Pence yard sign in FloridaThe person in the Obama mask was also suited up in a black-and-white striped prison suit.
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The fan also had a Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton mask on hand, and switched to that mask during the game.
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The folks behind the the University of Wisconsin's official Twitter account called the noose "unacceptable."
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"Guest services" employees found the two fans and told them to "remove the offensive components of the costume," according to a statement from the university.
The statement called the costume "repugnant and counter to the values of the university," but defended the "individual's right to free speech."
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Many on Twitter weren't happy with the university's response.
@UWMadison @UWBadgers Lynching costume of this country's first AA pres, it's not free speech. It's hate speech. Go read a history book.
— Laura Davis (@lcdavis1) October 30, 2016
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@UWMadisonPolice So Hate Speech is allowed on your campus? The blowback you are getting on this is so deserved.
— Cheryl pochapin (@6puma) October 30, 2016
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The incident in Wisconsin is another in a string of racist incidents that have taken place on campuses around the country this year.
A student at the University of Central Arkansas was expelled from his fraternity earlier this week after he wore blackface to a party.
Two students at a university in Pennsylvania were suspended in late September after they sent out a series of Snapchats in which one of them danced around in blackface.
And earlier in September, a white student at a university in Tennessee was arrested for intimidation after he showed up to a Black Lives Matter protest trying to hand out bananas while wearing a gorilla mask.
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