Another wingnut in serious denial of racial issues in this country.

but turned it down. "Biggest mistake I ever made" he claimed. Ditka claims he would have won and ended Obama's career.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/10/10/obama-mike-ditka-illinois-senate-2004-race/2957775/#

He gave up his entire draft for one mediocre running back.

LOL let's see you run for 10K in the NFL.

I saw him knock two defensive backs out of a game who were unwise enough to try to tackle him in the open field

Something for which I will never forgive him.

Instead of Legend Walter Payton, who was in his last game.

He's as small and stupid as he was wired when he was born, as if he never left a small down and his only info source was the boob tube. The good thing about this is that only people like him would like this statement, even probably half of all conservatives know it's patently wrong, if not how much.

There're lessons here, but one is don't put a megaphone to this old man's calcified stupidity. He'll be dead before long and leave behind a a couple paragraphs for his callous disregard for athletes' health and bigotry.

Somehow missed the murders of Emmet Till, the murders in the church of the 4 little girls in Birmingham or not read or heard about the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. He's not young, he's OLD.

What can you say about a dumb, ignorant, non-aware, racist POS like Ditka?

Guess he wan't paying attention during the Jim Crow Era?

What a maroon.

Kaepernick's protest is about.

Heigh-o!

You know, the Chicago Bears have never won a Superbowl, "that I know of".

The patriots in1985(somewhere around that time) I mean humiliated us patriot fans

If you press him, eventually he would admit that he thinks black people were really better off under slavery. So, really no oppression at all, he believes. Deep-seated racism and ignorance.

Living in the NFL bubble, all he knows of other races is that they got paid a lot of money, just like him. So, "nothing to see here". Dumb

I think we all remember how Ditka's eldest son was shot down in cold blood for eating Skittles in Florida and his youngest son was murdered for not walking on the sidewalk in Missouri.

Gotta love the mentality of "it never happened to me, so it never happened." Jeezus

"While in an ideal world, to quote Bob Marley, the "colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes," [1], in the real world, racial identity remains a key determinant of the quality of a person's life. Colorblindness provides easy cover for people to claim that in a "post-racial" society, the social effects of racism (such as lower incomes, increased rates of incarceration, police violence directed at particular groups) are the fault of the victims, and not evidence of how racism is still very much alive. "

I happened to get close to the guy once. On the sidelines of an NFC championship game at Candlestick. The things he said to his players and especially his QB (Mike tomzak) were some of the most vile comments I've ever heard. Questioning his manhood. Calling him fag, woman, pussy, you name it. This was the game he famously threw some gum at a niner fan.

I moved away from him, but I felt that if he was talking to me and said that shit, he would be dead. On the spot.

I hate Ditka. His deliberate snub of Walter Payton in the SuperBowl too was especially galling. Hid TV commercial as well. I've sent that company messages encouraging them to find another spokesperson.

ignorant and stupid. they go together but are not the same thing.

The last time I saw, Jim he was too busy caping for tRump, and saying how much he admired him.

He may not CARE to want to talk about it with him.

NAZI Germany's Nuremberg Laws were based on our Jim Crow ones.

the New Orleans Saints coach for a few years, I wonder if he ever noticed his players got pulled over for driving while balck and wealthy in NOLA in the 80's? They did.

they suck too.

I personally have not experienced this, therefore it does not exist. Typical Republican asshole.

just like his president, a fucking moron.

You know---some place where the critical workforce isn't 70% black and highly paid.

Or in the alternative, just shut the fuck up.

Except for discussing football ??? he will never be taken seriously again, ever..

and if you can't read, get someone to read it to you.

doesn't mean that it doesn't exist and it doesn't mean that it hasn't existed for eons.

unless he develops a cure for cancer or a way to give millions of people jobs, he's a wiener. A football coach, wow. Fuck him because he hasn't a clue as to what the protests are really about.

...that Mike Ditka thinks all oppression was ended by the Bolshevik Revolution...?