Colorado State is under scrutiny after a fraternity displayed a giant banner depicting Uncle Sam in what appeared to be blackface with the words, “We want you to rush Lambda Chi.”
The Banner was first spotted by CSU student Corey Valentine just before midnight on Sept. 4, reported The Rocky Mountain Collegian , an independent student-run newspaper.
A photo showed it prominently placed at the entrance to the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house on Wagner Drive in Fort Collins, partially obscuring the front doors and impossible to miss. “I drove around multiple times and was just like, ‘this can’t be up, this can’t be real,’” Valentine told the newspaper. He quickly alerted the university, filing an “incident of bias” report around 2:30 am, and received a follow-up email by the next morning.
Valentine also posted photos on his social media , where one commenter suggested the lighting created the illusion of blackface: “The light at night made it look black,” said the person, to which another asked, “Just the skin part, not the other part of the sheet?”