[Glad2bnuts]

Why can they never give us a direct quote so we can put it in context? I don’t believe it happened at all until I see it or hear it.

[yesthatjallen]

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.

[Texas resident]

They won’t put in context.

He could have said “No black olives” and they took that be racis.

Everything is rasis to the perpetually offended.

[keats5]

According to this article, he claimed that this took place as part of a role-playing exercise, intended to counteract racism in his company. You have to do a lot of digging to find out about this, and we still do not have the statement in enough context that we might fully understand.

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2018/07/11/papa-johns-founder-john-schnatter-resigns-as-chairman-over-n-word-controversy.html