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The University of Wisconsin Madison will host a “safe space” today for students upset over a controversial costume worn at a recent football game.

In particular, the “safe space” will be hosted for graduate students disturbed by the costume, in which a person dressed in prison garb wearing a Hillary Clinton mask in front and a Barack Obama mask behind their head was pulled along by the neck with a rope by another person dressed as Donald Trump.

Some observers called it a political statement. But many others have said it was a hateful image of Obama being lynched and another example of racism at UW-Madison.

“It pains me to be sending out yet another email advertising a safe space hosted by the Multicultural Graduate Network (MGN) and the Black Graduate and Professional Students Association (BGPSA), because, in theory, students should feel safe in any space on this campus,” wrote LaRuth McAfee, assistant dean of diversity, inclusion and funding, in an email to students obtained by The College Fix announcing the “Graduate Student Safe Space.”

“In wake of the recent events that have occurred this past weekend at the UW-Madison Football game and campus response to it, the MGN and BGPSA are offering a safe space for graduate students hurt by this and other campus incidents to come and relax, vent, and/or just enjoy one another’s company,” McAfee’s email added.

The Graduate Student Safe Space will run from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on campus.

It comes even after the university agreed to review its stadium policies in response to the costume to ensure “that symbols of this type are not displayed in our stadium.”

Campus leaders, meanwhile, have refused to denounce the business of one of its students selling hoodies bearing the phrase “All White People Are Racist” in capital letters.

MORE: Here’s the whole truth behind ‘Obama lynched’ costume at UW-Madison

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