CrossFit’s CEO Greg Glassman is under fire again. After posting a controversial tweet mocking both the pandemic and George Floyd protests, which prompted stars like SZA to call him out, a new report from Buzzfeed News on Tuesday (June 9) alleges that the 63-year-old CEO told his company that “we’re not mourning for George Floyd” on a private Zoom call wth gym owners. “I don’t think me or any of my staff are,” he said, according to a full recording of the meeting obtained by BuzzFeed News. “Can you tell me why I should mourn for him?

Other than that it’s the white thing to do — other than that, give me another reason,” he said in response to being asked by a Minneapolis gym owner why the brand hadn’t posted a statement about the protests

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