John Schnatter, founder of Papa John’s Pizza, was forced to resign as the company’s chief executive officer in January 2018 after complaining that the National Football League, with whom he had a business relationship, had not done enough to stop National Anthem protests by players over the police killings of unarmed blacks.
He blamed the NFL for a decline in his business.
The far-right website the Daily Stormer named Papa John’s the “official pizza of the alt.right” and neo-Nazis everywhere.
Really.
The company disavowed the endorsement, saying it didn’t want neo-Nazis eating its pizza, Newsweek reported.
Really.
Schnatter remained chairman of the company’s board of directors – until he was forced to resign from the board after Forbes magazine reported that he had used the “N” word during a conference with a public relations company he had hired to prevent further public relations fiascos.
In his conversation with the PR firm, he talked about growing up in rural Indiana, where, he said, whites would drag Blacks from the back of trucks until they died.
Schnatter, who admitted to using the “N” word, said he was set up by the PR company.
Two years later, Schnatter said he had been trying “to get rid of this N-word in my vocabulary.”
Schnatter later told the far-right TV network OAN that he was the victim of a targeted attack by left-leaning sports and entertainment entrepreneurs, business rivals, and Papa John’s board members hoping to profit from his downfall.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/09/papa-johns-founder-john-schnatter-n-word
Schnatter expressed his support for Donald Trump and attended one of his rallies in Kentucky during the 2020 presidential election.
Schnatter was a speaker at the 2022 Conservative Political Action Committee conference.
https://news.yahoo.com/papa-johns-founder-john-schnatter-004850325.html
