Mike Ditka can keep calling them ‘Redskins,’ but I won’t

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | August 21, 2014 10:50AM | RICK MORRISSEY rmorrissey@suntimes.com

[Fair Paul]

This is about compassion for people who don’t have a voice

Has this guy gone out to 26 Indian Reservations like Dan Snyder has?

[golas1964]

I’m more interested in Mr. Morrison’s opinion on the name: ‘Chicago Blackhawks’. Good for the goose,...

[Blennos]

Very well stated, jurroppi1

[Vermont Lt]

You might not call across the street using that word. Thats your choice. It is not illegal.

When the stands empty, and people refuse to play for them...they will change the name.

Until then, exercise your conscience.

[Ingtar]

Why, then, did they call themselves “People of the red skin?” This would be the meaning of Oklahoma.

[golas1964]

“Hey, Blackhawk, you dropped your hat.’’ I believe he’d say, “Hey, Blackhawk, you dropped your headdress.’’ (fixed it)

[WayneS]

I stopped reading at “even though he has come out strongly on the side of intolerance”.

[Vermont Lt]

Maybe they can change the name to the Americans. Then no one would like them. //sarcasm

[2ndDivisionVet]

First he needs to dig all of that sand out of his p****.

[John W]

The Redskins joined the NFL in 1932. Exactly at what point did the name start bothering folks?

[DoodleDawg]

Only if he was wearing a hat.

And, I assume, if he dropped it.

[lonestar]

“They” care more about a football team’s name than the Indians?

[Moonman62]

The author ovulates.

[defconw]

All the crap going on in the world and this is what the media wants to focus on? I know for a fact ISIL could care less what color skin people have. Either you're a murdering rapist in the service of a false god or you are not.

[Slings and Arrows]

There's a German word that's applicable to this columnist: Sitzpinkler. It means exactly what you think it means.

[Red Badger]

If you saw a Native American walking across the street, would you yell out, “Hey, Redskin, you dropped your hat’’?

No, not if he was wearing a hoodie.................

[Bitsy]

Just asking but are the Indians upset about this or the flaming liberal PC idiots bringing up all this stuff. They say the Indians have no voice but maybe in this matter they don’t care. I just don’t get the PC maniacs who sit around looking for causes because they have a wretched self hate or have no real purpose in life so they look for any purpose/cause to make themselves relevant in their own eyes.

[albie]

So he’d yell “Hey Native American, you dropped your hat”?! Terrible argument. “Hey Bob, you dropped your hat”. “Sir, you dropped your hat”. These both work well. Only a liberal would focus on race when addressing a stranger.

[Red Badger]

Sitzpinkler. It means exactly what you think it means.

One who sits on pinklers?................

[gimme1ibertee]

“Would you yell ‘Hey, Redskin! You dropped your hat.’”

Yeah, I would, if RGIII or Ryan Kerrigan dropped their hat.
Were it an American Indian (I HATE that erroneous "Native American" title!) i'd probably say, "Excuse me, sir, you dropped your hat".