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Greetings,
I am writing as a concerned consumer in regards to the friendly relationship between your company and Tim Buckley, creator of the webcomic Ctrl Alt Del. It has come to my attention that Sumo is listed as one of the sponsors for Mr. Buckley's upcoming event, Digital Overload. While I am happy for the publicity and advertisement this will surely garner for your business, I would like to make you aware of some objectionable content of a racist nature that I found in Mr. Buckley's latest comic strip, which I have attached to this email.
The strip portrays a robot incognito as a black human in order to avoid detection at a movie theater. Another character jests that, since the robot cannot innocuously speak in public and must therefore remain silent, "A quiet black man in a movie theater" is sure to be an even bigger attention-grabber.
This strip has already received a great deal of attention and backlash on the internet. Personally, I find this sort of humor to be completely tasteless, but this is not about my personal preferences. The reason I write to you now is to make you fully aware of who and what you are professionally associating yourself with. I am not a businessman, but if I were to find out that a business associate of mine had been making racist comments in public, I would immediately reconsider that relationship. At the very least, I would not feel right about helping put money in such a person's pocket. Is it possible that your company's public image could be tarnished in any way by being mentioned in the same breath as a cartoonist who now apparently writes casually racist jokes? Will a positive endorsement from Tim Buckley soon begin to mean less than it did in years past?
Again, I write to you today not to persuade, but to inform. Deciding how your company shall proceed given these events is entirely your prerogative. I would like to wish you the best of luck in your business endeavors in the future.
Sincerely,
Doppelganger