Now people lose their positions for quoting someone else’s use of the n-word
Even if the person doesn’t approve of and doesn’t agree with the quote, but was using it to illustrate another point.
Also, apparently it’s now not okay to disapprovingly relate stories from the past about racial intolerance.
At least, not for John H. Schnatter, founder and former CEO (and now former chairman, a position he resigned on Wednesday) of Papa John’s Pizza, as he discovered recently.
Here’s how it went:
The call was arranged between Papa John’s executives and marketing agency Laundry Service. It was designed as a role-playing exercise for Schnatter in an effort to prevent future public-relations snafus [irony alert]. Schnatter caused an uproar in November 2017 when he waded into the debate over national anthem protests in the NFL and partly blamed the league for slowing sales at Papa John’s.
On the May call, Schnatter was asked how he would distance himself from racist groups online. He responded by downplaying the significance of his NFL statement. “Colonel Sanders called blacks n—–s,” Schnatter said, before complaining that Sanders never faced public backlash.
Schnatter also reflected on his early life in Indiana, where, he said, people used to drag African-Americans from trucks until they died. He apparently intended for the remarks to convey his antipathy to racism, but multiple individuals on the call found them to be offensive, a source familiar with the matter said.
The call occurred back in May, by the way. The resignation just happened.
I think maybe he was toast anyway, and the call was some sort of set-up.
I suspect a setup. The ad agency that arranged for this role playing thing leaked the event and then quit the account. I bet they get hired back and the business is renamed. Big advertising revenues.
Diversity Pizza.
I think you’d have to scrounge to find cases in the post-war period where someone was dragged to death, much less dragged to death in some kind of racial crime. Mr. Schnatter was supposedly born in 1961. Dragging people to death to keep the nigras in line really wasn’t done in 1973 == in Indiana or anywhere else. No clue whether the papers concocted this quotation or whether Mr. Schatter displaced James Byrd and Pamela Basu in place and time.
You can’t run the dial on XM radio, BET, or streaming audio services without hearing nigger this or nigger that.