By Stephen Douglas
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John Schnatter, the man best known as Papa John, the founder and former face of the Papa John s pizza chain, appeared on OAN today. Host Kara McKinney asked Schnatter how he felt when the headlines smearing his good name first started coming out a few years ago. Schnatter said he was shocked and couldn t believe it. He then explained that over the last 20 months, one of his three goals was to get rid of the N-word from his vocabulary.
Papa John’s ex-CEO says he’s been working for the last 20 months “to get rid of this N-word in my vocabulary” (h/t @mount bees) pic.twitter.com/8heITnJJxA philip lewis (@Phil Lewis ) March 8, 2021
i think there s been a lot of racial tensions, and i m glad that something has finally been done. reporter: in september, the black student body president said a group of white students had shouted the n word at him. i m walking down the street and someone slings the n word out at me again. reporter: other students reported a swastika left on a dorm wall. and the university s response was lacking, even infuriating, they said. they could hardly believe the news. enough to bring some to tears. enough for protest leader jonathan butler to end his hunger strike after eight days. appearing weak, and unsteady. our humanity is worth fighting for, that s what we re saying in this moment that we re worth fighting for. reporter: the anger is fuelled by racial tension across the country, including last year s riots in ferguson, less than two hours away. the tipping point came over the
south, i m always aware of those words that are there that are just different when you re talking p someone of a different race. see, i was right. kooky. and this isn t the only time we ve heard this from the left. they ve been doing it for years. it s so funny because the teabagers, the one thing they hate is when you call them racist. the other thing they hate is black people. some of them in congress right now with this tea party movement would love to see you and me hanging on a tree. there s the what i d love to get the n word out of the tea party. look at the tea party, here are a group of people who are admittedly racist, when are overtly political, who tried as best they can to harm president obama in every way they can. so eric, isn t this argument getting a little bit old? yeah. i assume it s going to go away.
south, i m always aware of those words that are there that are just different when you re talking p someone of a different race. see, i was right. kooky. and this isn t the only time we ve heard this from the left. they ve been doing it for years. it s so funny because the teabagers, the one thing they hate is when you call them racist. the other thing they hate is black people. some of them in congress right now with this tea party movement would love to see you and me hanging on a tree. there s the what i d love to get the n word out of the tea party. look at the tea party, here are a group of people who are admittedly racist, when are overtly political, who tried as best they can to harm president obama in every way they can. so eric, isn t this argument getting a little bit old? yeah. i assume it s going to go away.
political stupidity. i have a mild obsession for barbra streisand. it s not a healthy obsession. one of the reasons why is when the l.a. times picked me up as columnist. barbra streisand cancelled her subscription to the l.a. times in protest. in my career there are very few high watermarks than that. look, in all fairness, conservatives shouldn t be such pains in the ass to hollywood liberals but the simple fact fastest rooted to their brain. the winner goes to baby higo, sean penn. he has what to get the n word out of the white house party. the tea party party. there is a big bubble coming out