Wisconsin releases statement regarding fan wearing offensive President Obama costume

Racism is still prevalent in America today.

There’s no doubting that.

During yesterday’s Wisconsin-Nebraska game, television cameras were scanning the fans inside Camp Randall Stadium and one shot of the crowd showed a fan wearing a President Obama mask with a noose around his neck.

According to collegefootballtalk.com, the fan was also wearing black-and-white prison stripes.

At the @UWBadgers game and there is a man with a mask of President Obama and a noose. This is racism, why was this allowed into the stadium? pic.twitter.com/zKEqhdDYny

— Ka(n)ti(fa)e (@woahohkatie) October 29, 2016

It APPEARS the men were first asked to removed the Obama mask then asked to leave. This was their exit… pic.twitter.com/Xv1UxMOfaW

— Ka(n)ti(fa)e (@woahohkatie) October 30, 2016

The University of Wisconsin’s official Twitter account then released a statement regarding the matter:

Statement from UW-Madison pic.twitter.com/gInAArKn8F

— Wisconsin Badgers (@UWBadgers) October 30, 2016

Kevin Cunningham

Kevin covers Big Ten football for Saturday Tradition.