Ousted Papa John’s Founder Says He Was Set Up, Smeared As Racist: ‘Day Of Reckoning Will Come’

In an interview published Tuesday, Papa John’s founder John Schnatter told WDRB that he has been wrongly smeared as a racist, which untimely led to his ouster at the company in July 2018. A fiery Schnatter warned those who’ve supposedly wronged him that “a day of reckoning” is on the way, and that the truth will soon be made clear.

The Papa John’s founder was accused of using the N-word during a conference call concerning public relations strategies in combatting racial controversies. According to a report from Forbes, Schnatter said, “Colonel Sanders called blacks n*****s” and explained that Sanders did not receive similar backlash from the public.