Posted on 06/07/2020 3:44:12 PM PDT by buckalfa
COLUMBIA, S.C. (The Big Spur) - The University of South Carolina athletics department has cut sponsorship ties with CPI Security after a email response reveled company CEO Kenneth Gill’s insensitive comments about social injustice after North Carolina protests.
“Today, we notified CPI Security that we were ending our corporate sponsorship relationship with their company,” athletics director Ray Tanner said in a released statement. “Our University and our athletics department stand for equality and justice for all. Our student-athletes, coaches and staff have taken part in peaceful protests and made statements in their support for ending racism and social injustice. We should all be committed to supporting these efforts.”
South Carolina is not the first sports entity to part ways with the Charlotte-based security company in recent days. The NFL's Carolina Panthers cut ties on Saturday and North Carolina State did the same on Sunday.
The following is courtesy of 247Sports’ Brad Crawford report on the Panthers’ news on CPI.
"Please spend your time in a more productive way. I challenge your statistics," CPI Security Ken Gill wrote in an email response to Jorge Millares, the executive director of local community group Queen City Unity. "A better use of time, would be to focus on the black on black crime and senseless killing of our young men by other young men."
Queen City called for a public reprimanding and boycott of CPI Security after that email became public, including North Carolina-based sports teams “such as the Carolina Panthers and Charlotte Hornets ... consider severing ties with CPI and Kenneth Gill.”
“Last Saturday, we said we are committed to doing our part and we mean it,” the Panthers said in a statement. “CPI Security has been a long term partner but, upon reflection, we feel that it is right to end our relationship. We have informed Mr. Gill of our decision tonight.”
Gill apologized for his email response to Queen City Unity, saying he “did not directly address the public’s outcry for racial justice and equality in the wake of George Floyd’s senseless killing.”
AUTHORITarianism and TOTALitarianism are burgeoning right before our eyes.
I saw that on Twitter earlier.
Change your name to Gamecucks.
And their revolution continues
Yepp. These businesses, and that includes the universities, are in great fear now of the race hustlers, the media and vandals appearing at their doorsteps, destroy their company name and property. Who are they going to call for protection ... the police ROFLMAO? The politicians have made it clear that they support the destruction of the rule of law and the rest of the Constitution, the police forces are being destroyed before your eyes in demokrap controlled cities and states. If any still wear the uniform, they won’t get involved, just collect a paycheck. Where will the criminal mob run to next? These businesses will find out ... eventually .... they have no protection no matter what they do now, trying to appease the criminals. What has happened to this country?
It’s sexist and misogynistic. Especially on the women’s teams which may include members who have sacrificed theirs!
Oh my, did I say MEMBERS! Just lynch me already. I’m hopelessly UNwoke.
Scary. A speech and thought Purge is under way. Anything that is not EXACTLY what is approved will cost you your livelihood. Three days ago a twenty year announcer lost his job for saying all lives matter. People need to start fighting this BS or freedom of speech is dead.
You are correct.
Right thinking or else.
During a lifetime, if the reckless use of a mere word justified the condemnation of the speaker, who among us would be worthy of life? Every one of us have to be ever thankful knowing but for the absence of social media there go I.
Also, this coming fall expect all college sports teams will feature the symbolic kneel by all white members, prior to games/matches/contests. This will replace the national anthem.
Unbelievable. At the rate we’re going, by August white people won’t be able to go outside unless they’re wearing blackface.
Never, never, never, never, never apologize! It only makes you look weak and whets the mob's appetite. That's one of the things I love about President Trump. He never apologizes.
This Maoist garbage is infecting college sports now. I fully expect college football players to be kneelers this fall. I won’t be watching if that is the case.
White lives no longer matter.
We are on our own.
We get it.
The man was absolutely correct and his apology fvcking pathetic.
The man was absolutely correct and his apology fvcking pathetic.
Can you really blame him? He’s most likely got a mortgage to pay and kids to put through college. These Maoists are rabid and won’t stop attacking until he loses everything.
We are seeing the unfolding of something like the Chinese Cultural Revolution before our very eyes. Not only must you express sympathy for the victim of an unjust action, the traditional response, but you must humiliate and abase yourself by groveling and blaming yourself for the actions of others. You must read a script and denounce your very identity and apologize for who you are. You must hate yourself.
My sister had a coworker who just got fired because she had a picture on social media that contained a Confederate flag in it from five years ago.
They made her hand over her personal phone for them to search and terminated her. She’s trying to convince her to sue for wrongful termination but she’s convinced no lawyer will take her case.
Lamecocks.
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