Columbus State professor at center of comments on Charlie Kirk's assassination resigns two key roles, will remain on faculty

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 Conservativ