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Papa John’s founder accused of using racial slur in conference call
The Hill ^ | 11th July 2018 | JACQUELINE THOMSEN

Posted on 07/11/2018 8:17:26 AM PDT by Ennis85

The founder and former CEO of Papa John’s allegedly used a racial slur during a May conference call on how to avoid unflattering public relations incidents, Forbes reported Wednesday.

John Schnatter, the company’s chairman and public face, allegedly used the slur during an exercise on handling public relations for the company after he faced blowback for tying the NFL's national anthem protests to lower sales for Papa John’s, according to the magazine.

Forbes reported that Schnatter used the slur after being asked how he would distance himself from racist groups, and tried to play down the impact of his statement on the anthem protests. “Colonel Sanders called blacks n-----s,” Schnatter reportedly said on the call, adding the Sanders didn’t face outcry for his statements.

The founder also reportedly said that when he was growing up in Indiana, people would drag black people from trucks until they died.

Schnatter meant the comments to show his opposition to racism, but others on the call found his statements offensive, according to Forbes.

The marketing agency who arranged the call, Laundry Service, cut ties with Papa John’s after the statements, the publication reported.

Papa John’s did not deny the incident in a statement to Forbes.

"Papa John's condemns racism and any insensitive language, no matter the situation or setting,” the statement read. “We take great pride in the diversity of the Papa John's family, though diversity and inclusion is an area we will continue to strive to do better."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: commiepropaganda; fakenews; papajohn; pizza; racism; racist; slur
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To: Major Matt Mason

There is a recent YouTube video by Mark Dice showing that some are saying that even using an image or GIF/meme of a black person humorously reacting to something, in a text or other posting, is the equivalent of using “blackface.”

We live in one giant re-education camp. Courtesy of the leftard media.


61 posted on 07/11/2018 9:46:35 AM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: Blue House Sue

Is it?


62 posted on 07/11/2018 9:53:24 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Ennis85

63 posted on 07/11/2018 9:53:41 AM PDT by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
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To: Ennis85
"“Colonel Sanders called blacks n-----s,” Schnatter reportedly said on the call, adding the Sanders didn’t face outcry for his statements."

"It was a different time, you see..."

64 posted on 07/11/2018 9:57:40 AM PDT by Rebelbase ( Tagline disabled.)
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To: Ennis85

He used it in a quote. Was the quote accurate or not?


65 posted on 07/11/2018 10:01:07 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Blue House Sue

Is it right for an article to lie about what was said?

Do you agree it’s not a racial slur?

Do you actually have a point other than to argue in circles like a good little troll?


66 posted on 07/11/2018 10:01:09 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: wally_bert

I just ordered papa john’s pizza last night. Didn’t know this story at the time though.


67 posted on 07/11/2018 10:02:13 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Skywise
Do you actually have a point other than to argue in circles like a good little troll?

Look at “her” posting history. She’s just here to stir the sh*t stick.

68 posted on 07/11/2018 10:07:33 AM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: Ennis85

Well, he’s White. He QUOTED someone with the “n-word.” Doesn’t matter. The left relishes the thought of destroying the career of a White. They will force him to resign, over nothing.
Last I heard, rap groups yelled the “n-word” about a million times in the past week.


69 posted on 07/11/2018 10:28:44 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism, like insanity, is the denial of reality.)
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To: pepsi_junkie
I think you are correct. Whenever someone is accused of racists comments, it is a mistake to bring up other people who have said worse. In a way, it validates the original accusations about the person's statements as they are trying to cover up the seriousness of them.

no doubt there are double standards, but other people should bring for the hypocrisy, not the person being accused.

70 posted on 07/11/2018 10:34:15 AM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: Ennis85

NOW I get it. This is not about the “racial slur” that they are saying he SAID (not quoted.)

It’s about the NFL national anthem. He criticized the NFL. He was forced to resign as CEO, but they weren’t finished with him. They got him to quit, but now saw an opportunity to whip him into complete submission, even as he bowed down in contrition, begging forgiveness.

They won’t be satisfied even after their thirst for blood is sated. They will continue to seek him out and destroy any chance he might have had to recover.

This is what happens in the USA, that some people foolishly call a “free country.”


71 posted on 07/11/2018 11:12:57 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism, like insanity, is the denial of reality.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Was this an everyday occurrence in Indiana?

I call BS on his claims. The dragging of James Byrd got national attention for the barbarity of the act as well as it's rarity. Emmett Till was remembered for it's barbarity as well as it's rarity.

There were lynching in the early Twentieth century Indiana but not one dragging death, much less multiple dragging deaths as Schnatter claims.
72 posted on 07/11/2018 11:28:42 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
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To: I want the USA back
If we don't stop them, this is where the Left is taking us:


73 posted on 07/11/2018 11:35:47 AM PDT by drpix
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To: drpix

I read “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn” to my son when he was VERY little. Maybe 5 years old or something. I used the word nigger when it came up first. Then I explained to him that it was a normal word back then, but today it is a “bad” word - and we don’t use that kind of language. I told him that I would substitute it with “black man” or similar.

Later on as he was a little older (12?) he had read where folks were talking about removing those books from the library because they had the word nigger in them.

“Did they even read the book? Tom is friend’s with Jim - and helps him escape slavery!! How is that racist?”


74 posted on 07/11/2018 11:55:33 AM PDT by 21twelve
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To: jyo19

Wasn’t George Carlin a leftist himself who despised his own country?


75 posted on 07/11/2018 12:25:01 PM PDT by Ennis85
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To: Ennis85

Now who are the fascists. Geez. Language police everywhere. I am sure I have used the word, nigger, in such a context as giving an example as to what was considered proper at one time. The whole world is one bloody snowflake.


76 posted on 07/11/2018 1:04:12 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: 21twelve

Read Agatha Christie. She clearly didn’t think much of “niggers” and uses it as a slur quite often. She’s dead so Why TF should I care - her books are still genius. She was a big bigoted yes, so is my grandpa. They had/have a right to be so.


77 posted on 07/11/2018 1:07:42 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Skywise

Unless you are a hip-hop artist, I would not recommend using the N-Word in any shape or form during a business meeting..


78 posted on 07/11/2018 8:37:20 PM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: Blue House Sue

Using a word in a non-offensive manner isn’t a racial slur.

You don’t get to dictate thought control - much as your ego thinks you can.


79 posted on 07/11/2018 9:39:20 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Skywise

Again, I never said it was used in a way that was a slur.

My view is that I would not recommend using that word in any context in a business meeting and that the marketing company had a right to end their relationship with Papa Johns.

If it is found that someone from the marketing company or from Papa Johns leaked the story, their employer has the right to fire them, and they have the right to keep them on board.


80 posted on 07/11/2018 10:12:54 PM PDT by Blue House Sue
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