Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Yankees suspend relationship with Papa John's after founder uses N-word
Newark Star-Ledger ^ | July 13, 2018 | Mike Rosenstein

Posted on 07/13/2018 5:34:41 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-39 next last

1 posted on 07/13/2018 5:34:41 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: GuavaCheesePuff

Minnesota Twins did too.


2 posted on 07/13/2018 5:35:49 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Free Republic Needs Your Monthly Donations!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GuavaCheesePuff

If one person is punished for using the same word others use with impunity every day, you’re not really free.


3 posted on 07/13/2018 5:37:00 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GuavaCheesePuff

Let’s see. Chairman of the board uses racial slur.

He thus gets kicked out of the position and off the board.

Baseball teams in turn severe relationship.

Seems backwards, as if the company is being punished for getting rid of the executive who used a racial slur.


4 posted on 07/13/2018 5:38:31 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bigbob

The truth of this story Is irrelevant. He was known Trump supporter so that is sufficient to Lynch him.


5 posted on 07/13/2018 5:40:23 PM PDT by gibsonguy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: GuavaCheesePuff

So if I order papa johns tonight am I supporting him or the idiots that are trying to destroy him?


6 posted on 07/13/2018 5:40:43 PM PDT by Skywise
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bigbob

yup, i wouldnt resign.

inaread id make a music video and sing a song full of it.


7 posted on 07/13/2018 5:43:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: GuavaCheesePuff

Used the word during a media training exercise.

Media uses the word every day in movies and music as entertainment.

This wasn’t “for fun”.

You want a training exercise on dealing with media? FU the media. They hate all American traditions including baseball. They think the sport is too slow, the fanbase too white, too old, and no outed gay players on any trams.


8 posted on 07/13/2018 5:44:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Secret Agent Man

And maybe run some special deals, like on the BIGGER pizza, or two of them called the BIGGER BIGGER pizza, or the BIGGER YET supersize pizza...

That should have them TRIGGERED...


9 posted on 07/13/2018 5:50:11 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: GuavaCheesePuff

Do you suppose this is another attack on our culture, this time pro sports?


10 posted on 07/13/2018 5:50:16 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GuavaCheesePuff

Ok. I’ve read the article and concluded that he’s done nothing to warrant all this negativity. What did he do wrong ?


11 posted on 07/13/2018 5:50:41 PM PDT by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GuavaCheesePuff

He said, “New York?”


12 posted on 07/13/2018 5:51:07 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: snooter55
What did he do wrong?

He merely repeated what Colonel Sanders supposedly said about black Americans, and put in context, and is now being excoriated for it as usual if you touch the sacred cows of the Left.

13 posted on 07/13/2018 5:54:11 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: ifinnegan

I heard he used the word in a training session that had to do with customer service.

If true, his whole world is crashing down, forever, because of a hypothetical use of ONE WORD.


14 posted on 07/13/2018 5:55:16 PM PDT by simpson96
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: bigbob

It’s a business these days.

It’s the bottom line.


15 posted on 07/13/2018 6:01:32 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: GuavaCheesePuff

Let’s put this in perspective.
He did not CALL someone the slur.
He was QUOTING ANOTHER person.
This fake liberal outrage is like getting mad when a white person sings rap lyrics including the N-word. You’re mad the white person said it and all outraged, but you don’t care about blacks singing it along with ho and other curse words? Shut up, hypocrite.


16 posted on 07/13/2018 6:11:12 PM PDT by tbw2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dsc

Most likely, however he should have not used the N-word.


17 posted on 07/13/2018 6:13:15 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Skywise

It depends, are you White?


18 posted on 07/13/2018 6:15:26 PM PDT by EEGator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: bigbob

You are so right.

What was that album by Richard Pryor That N—— Crazy(1974).
And Joseph Conrad’s classic novel the N—— of the Narcissus. And Dick Gregory’s nonfiction book N-——(1964)
And I happened to hear the word used on 1,000 different rap “songs” from booming speakers in cars at stoplights all over town every single day. (on songs about degrading and raping and killing women, mostly).

We have no freedom of speech if only a privileged class of people have the freedom.


19 posted on 07/13/2018 6:21:33 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting ,vote fraud & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: GuavaCheesePuff

Funny how CNN gets away with it.

https://youtu.be/JqErCUDaOyg


20 posted on 07/13/2018 6:22:58 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (All Democrats have to offer is violence, intolerance, divisiveness and hatred.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-39 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson