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.”
What state is this fired friend in?
Maryland.
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Funny
Just as well. It is not wise to sponsor ignorance.
College football and basketball have been corrupt sewers for years. Walk away with your head held high.
I can think of several folks where I work that if similar happened, no surprise.
Good mechanics and electricians are hard to get.
Racial Mafia at work
Life in today’s dystopian cancel culture society.
It’s just as well since my company instigated data separation.
I almost never used my laptop other than the job. Ditto the phone.
Personal stuff isn’t checked. The visitor network isn’t that great. It was never supposed to be used heavily.
Guess I’ll leave my phone on board during the day.
Stay away from the circuses and the bread will take care of itself.
Combination of 19th amendment and MTV and here we are.
College football and basketball have been corrupt sewers for years. Walk away with your head held high.
College football players have been getting paid under the table for a hundred years. I’m fine with the usual level of corruption there. lol. It’s the Maoist virtue signalling I can do without.
When will they learn to never apologize but to double down?
CPI Security pays THEM!
“Please spend your time in a more productive way. I challenge your statistics,” CPI Security Ken Gill wrote .. “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.”
THAT was Gill’s “racially insensitive” statement.
I guess truth is no defense.
All LIBS/DIMS are self-loathing so this fits right up their alley.
” “Our University and our athletics department stand for equality and justice for all.”
The magic word is ALL. Obviously they lie with this statement..
To state the truth is to be insensitive.
Unfortunately for the Left, truth is like gravity — it’s intrinsically insensitive & undeniably attractive.
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