Posted on 07/20/2018 3:11:07 AM PDT by BeadCounter
You’re correct. I met a Kentucky Colonel on a plane once and that’s how he described it.
>>In doing so he asserted something (about Colonel Sanders) that he did not have first hand or second hand knowledge about.
Biographies say that Col.Sanders was foul-mouthed. Mr. Sanders confessed that about himself. The words he used are not listed.
Jim Bakker PTL Club with Colonel Sanders 1979 (18:25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttdTGPQer-o
“he lost half his vocabulary”
Recall that the founder of Mozilla was fired for privately giving money to the prop 8 campaign that passed by public support. Someone at the IRS illegally leaked the donors’ name list to Leftists and he was taken out.
“The mere accusation is enough to convict and sentence you. There is no recourse, and you are allowed no defense.”
We have to fight that. Perhaps if whites actually said nigger once in a while. Nowadays its only blacks who use it and they use it way more than whites ever did. We can not be ruled by fear of a word.
Col.Sanders himself was chastised when he said that KFC’s corporate mashed potatoes tasted like wallpaper paste.
> Because he’s prejudiced,
Using any specific word does not mean you’re prejudiced. Context matters. A rap song and a board room are different. The 1950s and 2018 are different. When I grew up it meant a person was black - the speaker may or may not have been using it as a slur. It was OFTEN used as a slur - I’m not denying that - but was also used the way we currently say “black” or “African American”. Whites 50 years ago did use it the way i hear it used by blacks any time I’m on public transport today.
Today it is ALWAYs taken as a slur if it’s used by someone who is not part of the Democratic underclass to refer to people who are part of the Democratic underclass.
It’s entirely possible that the colonel used the word frequently without prejudice. And also Schnatter used it without prejudice. But, 50 years ago people did not infer prejudice from simply saying a word like they do now. I’d bet Schnatter is stupid for not understanding 2018, rather than prejudiced. But, I can’t read minds like so many others seem able to do.
Maybe not a saint, but he wasn’t a virtue-signaling fool who got him hoisted on his own petard. Sanders was smarter than that.
Schnatter is trying to force his way back into Papa John’s now. I think he ought to sell his ownership stake - which is huge - in their failing company and open a competing firm. Make better pizza. Bury them with competition. Everybody wins except Papa John’s management.
Has Ronald McDonald and the Burger King weighed in yet?
Sanders did get in hot water from women’s groups when he testified before Congress that he “never saw a woman that wanted to work”. While that’s not a racial comment, it is one that is a judgemental generalization against a group of people in the same way a racial slur might be.
Certainly, Kentucky Fried Chicken hired many blacks from the time I first noticed such things.
But what a lot of people who aren’t from the South don’t understand is that many whites used the n-word as part of their regular speech without any malice or disparagement whatsoever. The n-word, to them, simply meant “a black person”.
I can recall people saying things like “That n-word sure is a fast runner.” or “That N-word sure can sing.” and it wasn’t spoken with any hate at all.
So, in other words, I’ll bet Col. Sanders probably said the n-word several times down home in Kentucky and many of his friends did too but it was no big deal to them. It was just conversation.
Nowadays its only blacks who use it and they use it way more than whites ever did
Exhibit A (Language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqIsc8ooXug
Eenie, meenie, minee, moe..........
That was Dave Thomas of Wendy’s restaurants.
Sorry...I see somebody beat me to it.
:-)
Unless Papa John has proof that Col. Sanders used the N-Word, Papa John is toast.
However, I will wait for Ronald McDonald and the Burger King to weigh in.
Simple enough. Don’t buy their chicken or dig up the Colonel and ask him.
“Senior corporate executives cannot be so stupid, he was, and now he is out.”
BS. Senior corporate executive say racist things about Whites and America all the time without reprisal.
Hell, even Obama and his wookie made racists comments without punishment.
I agree with some of that.
Not meaning to stereotype, but a lot of Sanders clientele probably was/is African American, blacks and back in the day, he may well have served them, even early in his fast food career. I think he started out with a gas station, depression era, and sold the chicken out of those. Then, that popularity grew, he sold them out of a chain of gas stations and then, moved on to restaurants, something like this. He probably did actually encounter a lot of different people including blacks buying his food. He probably hired them eventually too when the chain went national. What I just said, is how I vaguely remember how Kentucky Fried Chicken came to be.
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