Peters said he hopes other Black conservatives will reach out to him following this incident to have conversations on differing ideas. He also said he thinks the senate body and the “other spectrum of the ideological scale” doesn’t want to hear from conservative Black men. Identifying as a conservative Black man, Peters said he has felt specifically targeted and silenced in ASCSU senate sessions. “I’ve not name called I’ve not attacked anyone, yet this is what I face.” “I have been accused by other senators of quote unquote ‘c**nary,’ which is a roundabout way of calling me an Uncle Tom and a race traitor,” Peters said. Peters said he is also facing in-person attacks, which he says have been ad hominem and are not furthering the conversation, but are instead divisive. Seriously? After having a Black Face incident we have a SENATE member wear Black Face at a Halloween themed meeting YOURE JOKING RIGHT? /s6kRS4h2k3 Peters said many of the responses are jumping to conclusions, and he said he doesn’t understand tweets questioning if he is “Black enough.” “As a senator for the College of Engineering and a representative of ASCSU, this is not what we stand for as an organization nor is it the kind of change we want to see on this campus,” Benitez wrote.Ī tweet including a video of Peters in the senate chambers before his removal has more than 40,000 views, and Peters said he has been watching the response closely. While Peters said he hoped to incite change with his costume, Benitez wrote that he feels the act served to reverse work done in ASCSU this year. “This was, of course, controversial, but it’s necessary in order to kick-start a movement.” “I should have done this earlier,” Peters said. Associated Students of Colorado State University senate votes senator Koby Peters to leave the premises from this week’s meeting after arriving in a “blackface costume.” (Nathan Tran | Collegian) ![]() Peters said he believes most people in the college he represents would agree with the critical intent of the costume. Additionally, he said he doesn’t understand why people would find his costume offensive, as he wanted it to start a conversation. The senator who called the motion, Alejandro Benitez, wrote in a statement to The Collegian that Peters’ action was not reflective of ASCSU and countered the organization’s progress in the areas of diversity and inclusivity. Listen to a prepared statement by Senator Koby Peters here. “Justin Trudeau was just reelected and was endorsed by Barack Obama, and I was trying to bring to light how we’ve allowed this to happen.” “I was truly hoping, I guess you could say, to open up a dialogue,” Peters said. ![]() ![]() Peters said the costume was meant to highlight the recent reelection of Trudeau, who faces criticism over a newly uncovered photo in which he is doing blackface.
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