CONWAY, Ark. – A University of Central Arkansas student who donned blackface as part of his Bill Cosby Halloween costume is no longer a University of Central Arkansas student.

The university expelled the sophomore after he posted an image of himself with his Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity brothers in costume during a party Friday night, WILX reports.

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Brock Denton posed in blackface and an ugly Cosbyesque multicolor sweater beside two friends in the Instagram post, which featured the caption “It was a bold night.” The post instantly sparked a backlash online, including death threats, Denton said.

“Within a matter of a few hours social media has made me out to be a monster, a racist, a supremacist and those are just three of the many hateful names I have been called,” he wrote in the caption of a blank image on Instagram afterwards. “I have been sent death threats, threats to burn down my house.”

In the lengthy apology, Denton claimed he is “the farthest thing from discrimination” and he’s engaged in the “fight for equality everyday.”

“I’ve been writing a book for the past two years on what it really means to be a good person,” he wrote.

“I apologize from the bottom of my heart and absolutely never intended this to happen the way that it did. I never EVER would have done this if I would have known the domino effect that follow,” Denton wrote. “I swear to everyone that I have never stereotyped a person based on how they look. It’s not me.”

Denton wrote in response to commenters on his post that he didn’t even know what blackface was until he posted the picture, UCA Echo reports.

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“I can honestly say I’ve never heard of black face before … today,” he wrote. “Believe me or don’t but at this point all I can do is be truthful.”

UCA President Tom Courtway issued a statement about the incident before issuing an expulsion.

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“A short time ago we were made aware of a picture on social media showing what is purported to be a UCA student wearing blackface,” he wrote. “This picture is highly offensive and repugnant, and this representation goes against all we, at UCA believe in and stand for.”

UCA’s Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity chapter was also suspended by Sigma Tau Gamma Headquarters, according to the U. Central Arkansas Twitter page.

Students, of course, were shocked, offended and outraged by the politically incorrect costume.

“In Greek life we talk about diversity so much and having that Halloween party was not a good representation of diversity,” junior Alexis Downing told the UCA Echo. “As an African-American, I am very offended by it.”

“I don’t think dressing up like a black person with black paint on was respectful,” senior Haley Jones said.

“Being black is not a costume,” senior Brenton Johnson told WILX. “I instantly got upset. Like, I got angry because it was a clear and blatant disrespect.”