In the second picture, he is seen at a Kentucky Fried Chicken even after the corporation added the "Extra Crispy" option, which he detested. The Colonel also gets a mention in Larry Groce's novelty hit "Junk Food Junkie".
I didn't see this follow up to the John Schnatter story but the Colonel certainly deserves his defense to be aired as well. That he, the Colonel, never used such words as alleged. Colonel Sanders probably has given a lot of jobs to people across the spectrum.
Headline should read “scandal” as in “Colonel Sanders’ family defends him amid Papa John’s scandal”, not “scand”, my error.
Once the kin-folks of the Colonel laid down the weasel statement on Schnatter...it’s pretty much a broad insult.
Right. Sanders was a saint. Cough, cough.
Tempest in a teapot.
Good God all mighty.....
mom-me mom-me he called me a.......name!!!! waaaaa
Children played by adults with power, sick.
They ought to sue for the jerk defaming their brand. It will cost KFC big bucks to counter this lie.
Did Colonel Sanders teach him to speak ? Whether it is the president of a company or the president of the country who uses the word doesn’t make it right. They may have given jobs but fast food burdens the public way more in increased health care costs than it contributes. A pox on both their houses.
When black entertainers stop using the word, everyone else can stop. Until then? All bets are off.
He was White, and therefore is guilty, guilty, guilty. There is no defense if you are White. The mere accusation is enough to convict and sentence you. There is no recourse, and you are allowed no defense.
One of the left’s favorite presidents, Harry S. Truman was a member of the KKK.
So what. It was a different world.
> 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.
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.
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.