CSU professor will remain employed despite controversial remarks about Charlie Kirk...

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COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — There has been a social media firestorm in the aftermath of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination and part of that firestorm has reached Columbus State University.

CSU Creative Writing professor and Director of the CSU Press, Dr. Allen Gee, has resigned from those roles.

WRBL News 3 learned this Monday after an interview with CSU President Dr. Stuart Rayfield. Gee met with Rayfield on Monday and offered to resign his post with the CSU Press and the D.L. Jordan endowed chair that he currently holds.

President Rayfield says she accepted the resignations and that Gee – a tenured faculty member – would remain employed by CSU as an English professor.

Here’s part of what Gee posted on a Columbus Ledger-Enquirer website last week after Conservative political activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah.

“Charlie Kirk was worth over $12 million. He spewed hate constantly and used any tactic he could—interruption, talking loudly and over students—to humiliate students. He never sought unity and reveled in putting down younger people. His debates were filled with falsehoods, racism, homophobia, and white supremacist rhetoric. There was very little that was brave about how he spread hate. His shooting was extremely sad, though, with him dying as a victim of the gun violence that he sanctioned, defending the Second Amendment after a school shooting in which children were killed. Sadly, he received death threats all the time and his children will not grow up with their and his wife has lost her husband.”

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