By: Taren Vaughan
More Chris Brown sponsors pull out of singer’s upcoming summer concert? Just when things appeared to be looking better for Chris Brown, the bad news is starting to pour in for the singer again. As we reported yesterday, Chris’ probation got revoked by the judge who is over the Rihanna assault case due to his connection to an alleged hit and run incident, which happened back in May. And now Chris is steadily losing sponsorship for the summer festival he is scheduled to perform at. Although Chris has publicly apologized for assaulting ex-girlfriend Rihanna, there are many people out there who are not willing to forgive him over the incident. Chris is set to drop another studio album. But before he does, he plans to to headline a summer music festival in Canada. However, Chris is now down a total of four sponsors as they have withdrawn their sponsorship of the event, CTV News reports:
Centre for Arts and Technology-Halifax announced Monday that it has officially withdrawn its sponsorship of the event scheduled for Aug. 31.
“As an education institution, we can’t ignore the sentiments expressed on campus that participating in this year’s event goes against our collective values,” the Centre said in a Facebook post.
On Monday, Molson Canadian and Halifax-based spa Touch of Radiance also announced they would be withdrawing their sponsorship from the event. On Saturday, Rogers Communications did the same.
“We decided to no longer pursue partnership with this year’s event. The feedback we’ve received from the fans has echoed out decision not to participate,” Molson Canadian said in a statement.
In addition to a fourth sponsor pulling out of the event, an online petition was started to remove Chris Brown from the concert and has already accumulated almost 6,000 signatures, according to CTV:
“Chris Brown is as well known for his violent beating of his former girlfriend Rihanna. As a city, I believe it reflects poorly on us to not only host such an artist, but to make him the headliner of this show,” said the petition, posted by Halifax resident Nichole Snow.
Despite Chris losing sponsors and the petition to have removed him from the festival, one of the concert organizers Stephen Tobin says they are confident that the show will happen as scheduled and people will buy tickets:
“It’s not my position to defend or endorse any of Chris Brown’s past behaviour. In this case, what we are promoting is the fact that Chris Brown is a multi-platinum award winning artist of international calibre.”
Still picking and choosing who they want to persecute I see. Damn shame.
Always.
Thank you.
I hope people really start opening their eyes and realizing how black people are judged to a different standard. I am not saying Chris is a saint and he needs to do better but this is ridiculous SMH.
So why don’t they protest all the other men in Hollywood who have assaulted women? Because they’re not black? Oh…
This is just too much. They treat him like he killed somebody. Smh.
I agree. I’m not for hitting women but they treat him like they ought to treat George Zimmerman.
I’m not saying what he did was ok, but damn get over it already.
Oh whatever! Rihanna doesn’t even care anymore so do they?!
Are they serious? The damn thing happened in 2009! Damn!
I’d love to see them do this to white celeb who have put their hands on women…I’m sure that will never happen again.
Chris is a knucklehead. He acts like a thug and he’s one of the many reasons black men have bad images in the media. F-ck him.
Shut up you self-hating idiot. No real black person who loves their race would excuse the actions of racist a-sholes.
So you support the persecution of a black celeb when virtually no white celeb guilty of the same crime has been boycotted to this extent before? That says a lot about you. Smh.
This is so stupid to me.
Chris Brown’s fans ought to boycott these companies. That’s the only way they will see they are out of line. He’s apologized a million times and has moved on from Rihanna, .
This is so stupid