"A local Fort Collins resident was asked to take down a Halloween display after some Colorado State University students called it offensive and racist, saying it resembled a black person hanging from a noose.
A photo of the Halloween display obtained by KUSA shows a ghost with a black wig dangling from the rafters of a house nearby CSU’s campus, looking similar to the main character in the popular horror film The Ring.“It hurt to see it and it made us like upset and it was just something we didn’t want to happen.”
Nonetheless, some students found the display to be racist, interpreting the Halloween decoration as a black woman being hanged.
“It almost, I got like a horrible feeling in my stomach that someone would put a hanging black woman across the street from our campus,” student Sunnique Cortez told 12 News.
“I thought about what message that was sending to black families to come up here with their black child....”
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