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Guy Running US Open Security Allegedly Sent Some Very Racist Emails
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John Del Signore
Published Sep 17, 2013
Modified Sep 17, 2013
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The Vice President for the largest events security firm in the nation also happens to be a racist scumbag, according to a series of disgusting emails he allegedly sent to a subordinate through his official work email account. Scott Dennison, 56, handles special events for CSC Events—they're the people you hope don't find your drugs when you attend a major concert or sporting event.
CSC handles security for the US Open, and in a 2009 email to an employee about staffing the two week-long event, Dennison allegedly wrote, "No African Americans please only limited quantities that have brains and can actually do a day’s work." Even more vile, in 2011 he allegedly sent an email about training a German shepherd to do "n----r eating exercises."
All the racist emails (yup, there are more) were sent to John Storer, 47, a retired US Army major who worked for CSC from 2009 to 2012, the NY Post reports. Storer said he was disgusted by the emails, and they were eventually passed along to a former black CSC employee, one Sean Felder of Harlem. In one email, Dennison allegedly wrote this mock-testimonial which he intended to read as if it was from Felder:
“Yu sez brothurz, Mr. Gon allows the black man to be superior we run the place cuz we needs the money and Obama and Rev Sharpton allowed us to mix with the White Crackers at this event. Come on down we can cheat, steal, eat food and sleep. Just like our new govt allows us to do, to get back at the white man for Slavery.”
Felder is suing CSC in Manhattan federal court. Neither CSC President Jim Granger nor a US Open spokesman responded to a request for comment.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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