BPR: In an interview Friday regarding allegedly racist remarks he had made during an inter-company conference call with a marketing agency earlier in the week, Papa Johns founder John Schnatter managed to stir the hornet’s nest again.
During the conference call Wednesday, the marketing agency had been coaching him on how to speak on sensitive topics such as race. The training had been prompted by scathing remarks he had made last year about the NFL’s national anthem protests. Though a majority of Americans also disagree with the protests, Schnatter was labeled a racist by the far-left for his honesty.
Schnatter’s penchant for honesty bit him in the butt again Wednesday when he dared to point out to the marketing agency that it was patently unreasonable to label him a racist.
What specifically occurred was that the marketing group asked him how he intends to distance himself from racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. He responded by noting that even though “Colonel Sanders called blacks n*****s,” he never faced the same grade of backlash. Colonel Sanders was the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
His point was that the whole situation is ridiculous. All he had done was express his opposition to the NFL’s disrespectful protests. But because of how Schnatter conveyed this point — via the use of the n-word, which was admittedly dumb — his world has quickly come crashing down around him.
First the media began portraying him as a white supremacist who hates blacks. Then dozens of sports chains cut their tie with Papa Johns. And last but not least Schnatter was effectively forced by public pressure to step down as the chairman of the very found he once founded.
Now fast forward to Friday, when Schnatter sat down for an interview with Louisville, Kentucky news station WHAS. While it remains unknown what his intent had been with the interview, it’s clear now it’s only exacerbated the crisis in his life. MORE
SNIP: He should have stopped while he was ahead.
wtfo
My great and great great and great great great and so on pappy called black people niggers along with Mr. Col. Sanders. Now that I’ve pointed out that fact, surely my life in liberal corporate America has been ruined. But I have one question before I leave the plantation – If this particular reality is to be overlooked, what exactly is the means for black reparations? I guess we move FORWARD.
fwiw … I never heard my great granddaddy, nor either of my grandfathers ever use the ‘nig’ word …. my father, during his time as a motorcycle cop, used the word often while in the service … before that, never
… must be a lesson there somewhere
btw, I’m ordering a Papa John’s Doughball w/ extra ketchup … pronto!
John Schnatter founded a good company that produces a good product and provided a lot of good, honest jobs. A lot of people who should be grateful for what he has done for himself, his family, his employees, and his customers are being mighty niggardly with their understanding and forgiveness.
THE GUY’S A BILLIONAIRE!! I MEAN, THERE ARE SUCH THINGS AS NIGGERS, RIGHT??
$$$$$$$$
OK, FUR’S GONNA SAY I’M PICKIN’ THE SCAB AGAIN…SHEEEEESH!!!
Good night, y’all!
A guy I worked with moved from Wyoming to Texas when he was seventeen because his father was relocated by his employer. He said he dreaded moving to what he perceived as the racist South. He had virtually never seen a black person in his life as the area where he grew up was devoid of them. He had heard while growing up that blacks were grossly mistreated in the South and white people there reveled in their mistreatment towards blacks. During the first year in his new surroundings he learned the truth. It was as if he had come from Mars with no prejudice toward anybody, except whites, and got a belly full of reality. He saw how the vast majority of blacks had learned from their upbringers, churches, media, schools and each other that whitey was evil and was the blame for all their troubles. He began to resent the blacks he came in contact with and learned not to trust them, even the good ones, because the odds were that they were going to burn him in some way. It wasn’t because they were black that he developed this attitude about them, but because so many of the black people he met were just low-life douchebags. Fair or unfair, at some point a guy just has to act in a way that is conducive towards self protection.
Papa John has what I aspire to have. Which is “fuck you” money.
The marketing people *I* hired are going to ask me “how do I intend to distance myself from the KKK? What in the monkey shit are you talking about? You’re fired.
Say what you want, when you want, how you want.
People within his company have been trying to force him out since before the whole NFL kneeling brouhaha but his name is literally in the title.
Buy me out. Watch everyone get laid off. Stores closed. Your shares reduced to toilet paper.
He can start over. He has the recipe to a successful business and could sell anything. They’re left with a restaurant whose name they ruined intentionally. What are they going to do to prove that what was Papa John’s isn’t racist? Rename every restaurant MLK and Rosa Parks Pizza.
Bunch of dumb shits.
He’s going to “apologize” his way out of his own company. He better get a clue and take a stand before it’s too late.
Way to keep encouraging The #Walkaway campaign guys.
If blacks are going to boycott Papa Johns, i just might start giving them my business!
My brother asked me why I hang out with my n*gger friend and ride motorcycles sometimes. My friend owns a successful business, house, boat, cars etc. My “brother” doesn’t work, has 6 kids, on wifey #3 and milks SNAP and Medicaid for all they can. My friend couldn’t be a n*gger if he tried. My brother is another story LOL
It’s never going to end. Never!
WDS
Nice illustration. My close friends are split right at 50/50 white and black. There’s a couple Hispanics thrown in. All very conservative. If the shit ever hits the fan I hope I have a couple of my black friends with me.
The problem is, he’s talking from both sides of his mouth now. He should have stopped and held firm re: the NFL crap. Hardly anyone was watching, so who cares if the NFL dumped him or not? He should have laid low and then hooked onto another venue. The official pizza of NRA. lol. Or soccer, baseball, club scene, whatever! How did he run a business being this weak?
I was in grade school in calif in the 50’s and we had a new kid from the south. He said in class that the southerners hated blacks because if you give them an inch they’ll take a mile. Wow! Was he prophetic!