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Papa John's Founder Says His Use Of The N-Word 'Wasn't A Slur' Because It Was Said During Training Session
In an interview with San Francisco news station KRON 4, Schnatter blamed the company's marketing agency, with which he was on a phone call when the incident occurred, for overblowing the story.
"It wasn't a slur. It was a so- cial strategy and media plan- ning and training and I repeated something that somebody else said and said, 'we're not going to say that, We don't use that kind of lan- guage or vocabulary.' And sure it got taken out of context, and sure it got twisted, but that doesn't matter," Schnatter said.
"I hurt people's feelings. That's what matters here. And for that, I'm sorry and I'm dis- appointed in myself that something like that could hap- pen," Schnatter added.
The pizza chain founder claimed that Papa John's mar- keting agency tried to "extort" him over the remarks.
"So, yeah they tried to ex- tort us and we held firm. They took what I said and they ran to Forbes and Forbes printed it and it went viral," he said.
Schnatter's remarks come days after Forbes reported his
Papa John's founder John Schnatter said Saturday that because he used the n- word during a training ses- sion, it does not constitute a "slur."
use of the slur during a confer- ence call last year. Schnatter acknowledged his use of the word, apologizing and later re- signing as the company's chair.
“News reports attributing the use of inappropriate and hurtful language to me during a media training session re- garding race are true," Schnatter said Wednesday, in a statement released by the company. "Regardless of the context, I apologize. Simply stated, racism has no place in our society.”
Apartment Complex Manager Suspended After Black Resident Kicked Out Of Pool
A white apartment man- ager of an Indianapolis resi- dential complex who kicked out a Black resident for no other reason than she had the authority to do so, has been suspended from her job and may be fired once an investi- gation is complete.
According to the IndyStar, a viral video showed an off- duty police officer working as pool security at the River Crossing at Keystone and the apartment manager harassing resident Shayne Holland last Friday. The officer wanted Holland to give her his ad- dress, which Holland was not comfortable with.
“After I showed her my key here, this officer tried to walk up here and kick me out of my own pool, I pay $1600 in rent,” Holland is heard on the recording saying and showing his key that allowed him access to the restricted area, the IndyStar reports.
“The question that you asked me was, ‘Do I live here?’ I said ‘yes,’ then you asked me for my address,’ Holland can be heard saying on the video
Images from viral video in which Shayne Holland, (bottom) was asked to leave his Indianapolis apartment complex pool de- spite showing the officer his pool key and the apartment manager confirming that he was an apartment complex resident.
recording. “I showed you my key. What more conversation needs to be held?”
The building manager whom Holland calls “Can- dace” continues to tell Hol- land that he needs to give the officer his address although she’d confirmed to the officer that he was a resident. When Holland asked why that was necessary, she told him to
leave.
“You need to leave,” she
said. “There is a sign here that says I can ask anyone to leave.”
Barrett & Stockely, the building management com- pany, apologized for the inci- dent and added that “Candace” had been sus- pended pending an investiga- tion.
White Woman Calls Cops On California Man Chilling In His Car Listening To Yoga CD
Imagine you’re vibing in your car, mentally working on aligning your chakras when a white woman comes and tries to throw a whole bucket of ice water on that mess by calling the cops on you.
That’s exactly what hap- pened to Ezekiel Phillips, who believes that if he wasn’t Black, the woman would have never claimed that she felt threatened by his presence.
Phillips told Fox 11 that he had just dropped someone off on Ramillo Avenue in Long Beach, Calif., and decided to take a 30-minute break before going to his yoga class around the corner. As he was listening to his Bikram yoga CD, the woman confronted him by walking up to his car.
“You’re not supposed to be here. This is a good neighbor- hood,” Phillips claimed the woman told him.
Phillips was taken aback, but like a true yogi, he at- tempted to disengage.
“At that moment I’m like, ‘Wait, hold up. Have a good day, ma’am. Namaste.’ And I rolled my window up,” he told the news station.
However, things quickly es- calated as the woman started taking pictures and filming Phillips.
“She took her phone out;
A photo of Ezekiel Phillips taken by the woman.
started taking pictures, filming doing whatever she was doing ... So I got out the car, I started filming her as soon as I start filming her, she started screaming, ‘What are you doing?’ Leave me alone! I’m feeling threatened. Help! Help!’ It was one of those,” Phillips explained.
In audio from 911, the woman can be heard franti- cally speaking to the operator who attempted to figure out what the situation was.
“I noticed him two houses up from my parents’ house and I’m like, you know and he’s waving to me. I don’t know who he is,” the woman told the operator. “I go ‘Why are you sitting in your car in our neigh- borhood? And he goes ‘I’m resting’ and ‘I’m like you weren’t two blocks back.’”
As the woman walks toward a neighbor’s house, Phillips followed her. It was at that
point the woman could be heard screaming, “I can’t get away from him! Get away from me!”
At one point, the woman claimed that Phillips had at- tacked someone, a statement that is not even remotely true based on the 911 call.
“Ma’am. When you say he attacked other persons, what did he do to them?” the opera- tor is heard saying in an at- tempt to clarify.
“He’s trying to give his busi- ness card to this other guy that is proof that he didn’t do any- thing to me,” the woman re- sponded.
Phillips said he had wanted to leave at one point, but said that may have made him look guilty so he stayed until officers arrived. The Long Beach Police Department did not file an incident report and acknowledged no crime was committed.
Dem Lawmaker Dances To Drake Song To Promote Millennial Voter Turnout
A Democratic lawmaker posted a video of herself danc- ing to Drake's newly released song "In My Feelings" on Twitter Friday, urging the song's mysterious "Keke" to vote in November's midterm elections.
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D- Ohio) posted the half-minute video Friday afternoon, writ- ing that the Trump adminis- tration's policies had her and other Americans "in my feel- ings."
"I don't know who Keke is but I want her to vote next No- vember because this @White- House has me and many other Americans "in my feelings". #KekeMustVote #InMyFeel- ingsChallenge," Beatty wrote in a post accompanying the video.
In the video, Beatty steps out of a white car, dressed in an all-white suit and dances with two staffers.
"As a Member of Congress, it's imperative we tap into trending topics to help deliver important messages to the
REP. JOYCE BEATTY
next generation, especially when it comes to the impor- tance of voting and using one's voice," the lawmaker told CNN.
"This is but the latest exam- ple of how I am bridging the gap between politics/govern- ment and millennials."
Democrats are hoping to pick up 23 seats in the House while gaining two seats in the Senate to take back both chambers of Congress in November. Recent polls show the party with about a 10-per- cent advantage over Republi- cans for control of Congress on the generic ballot.
Beatty's video had been viewed about 15,000 times by Saturday afternoon, and had been shared just over 300 times.
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