So his response was that he meant it took 20 months to have media correctly explain the context around his use of the N-word. There's no way of drawing that conclusion from what he actually said, but that's what he's saying now.
During a conference call around his racial insensitivity (he was complaining about the NFL protests around kneeling costing him business) he defended himself by saying that “Colonel Sanders called blacks n-----s, but he never faced any public backlash." His argument is that he doesn't use the word, just was quoting old Sanders...
Which of course shows exactly why the company thought he needed the racial sensitivity training. Forgetting about him 'quoting' Sanders for a second, he still used the term "blacks" and then used some white guy who died 40 years ago as an excuse to be a racist, but the second biggest problem (the first being him using the word) is that Sanders doesn't have a documented history of using the N-word...
The sad part about that interview is the interviewer "you see these headlines come out and smearing your good name" is acting like reporting on him using the N-word is 'smearing his good name' rather then him being criticized for being a racist.
Last edited by Oling_Roachinen; 03-09-2021 at 12:16 PM.
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