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Last week on his infamous conference call, Papa John dropped colonel Sanders name. He stated that Colonel Sanders never faced criticism for saying the n-word.When asked why use the slur instead of saying ‘N-word’?, Papa John told a radio station in Louisville “Well, I was just talking the way the Colonel talked.”
Trigg Adams, Sanders’ grandson, told the Courier Journal that saying Sanders used the N-word or any racially offensive words is “an absolute lie.”
“He’s a weasel,” Adams said about Schnatter. “Because he’s prejudiced, he’s trying to say somebody else was, too. (Sanders) had absolutely no prejudice against anybody.”
Cindy Wurster Sjorgen, a great-granddaughter of Colonel Sanders, said in a statement that Sanders “was known to throw around a few cuss words but never a racial slur. For Mr. Schnatter to use the colonel as a scapegoat for his own horrible, disgusting mouth and racist beliefs is inexcusable.”
