I hope Louisville is happy!

History refresher:  Papa John's Pizza was started by John Schnatter in Jeffersonville in the mid-80's.  His family owned a tavern and he made and sold pizzas.  One thing led to another and Papa John's was created and turned into a multi-$billion international corporation with it's headquarters in Louisville.  Schnatter has never been accused of being the friendliest guy around nor the stingiest.  He contributed tens of millions locally and who knows how much globally to social, academic, and athletic causes.  Papa John's made a whole bunch of local people VERY wealthy.  

Fast forward to around 2017ish.  Schnatter was recorded during a sensitivity training exercise saying the forbidden (unless you check the proper "boxes") N word.  He says that it was part of the training and was snookered, the woke mob says otherwise.  He was immediately shamed, cancelled, etc.  The University of Louisville pulled the naming rights from the football stadium and all other buildings, etc.  He stepped down from the company board and eventually cashed out most of his interest.  A new chairman from Atlanta was appointed and he almost immediately moved a good portion of the company headquarters to Atlanta.  Fast forward to yesterday and the company announced that almost all operations would be moved to...you guessed it...Atlanta.

I hope Louisville and the University are happy.  The area has lost a bunch of good paying jobs and the University a generous philanthropist.

I don't know Schnatter, never met him, don't know that I have ever been within a mile of him.  What I do know is a story that a nurse that helped with my mother told me.  There was a young boy with terminal cancer in the hospital and he was a big fan of a local sports reporter.  The reporter got news of this and went to visit the boy.  The family was not of wealth and was obviously suffering in all ways from the situation.  The reporter was a friend of Schnatter's and called him for a favor of some pizzas for the family.  Schnatter delivered the pizzas himself and spent a good amount of time with the boy.  He also (allegedly) contacted hospital administration and paid all of the boy's medical bills.  

In my book, that's a man that should be revered, not cancelled.