This seems a little extreme to me. So Papa John's founder made a comment last year that he thought NFL players should stand for the national anthem, and that his NFL-sponsoring business was suffering due to the negativity surrounding the kneeling. He took a ton of heat, and the NFL's sponsorship deal with Papa John's was soon terminated. While I don't agree with his perspective, it was a helluva lot more tame than what our POTUS spewed out, saying that those NFL players should be fired and maybe didn't belong in our country. This is important - a citizen expresses his opinion and gets villified, the POTUS says much worse and goes along his merry way.
So now, in an internal conference call, he was defending himself, and made an ill-advised comment that Colonel Sanders used the N-word and didn't face any backlash. Since Sanders has been dead since 1980, this reference (if true) was from a looong time ago.
Ok - so Papa John (Schnatter) said the N-word, but in reference to what some other guy supposedly said 30 or 40 years ago. He didn't use the word himself in describing anyone.
Now he has had to resign as Chairman, Louisville wants to change their stadium name, and his name and face are being removed from various places in his hometown.
Is it just me, or is that more than a little much?
http://www.espn.com/college-sports/...n-schnatter-resigns-louisville-board-trustees
So now, in an internal conference call, he was defending himself, and made an ill-advised comment that Colonel Sanders used the N-word and didn't face any backlash. Since Sanders has been dead since 1980, this reference (if true) was from a looong time ago.
Ok - so Papa John (Schnatter) said the N-word, but in reference to what some other guy supposedly said 30 or 40 years ago. He didn't use the word himself in describing anyone.
Now he has had to resign as Chairman, Louisville wants to change their stadium name, and his name and face are being removed from various places in his hometown.
Is it just me, or is that more than a little much?
http://www.espn.com/college-sports/...n-schnatter-resigns-louisville-board-trustees