Worth a thousand words
Tuesday, Oct 10, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Wow…
* Related…
* U.S. Rep. John Lewis, an American icon of the Civil Rights Movement, reflects on the 1962 summer he spent in Cairo
* U.S. Rep. John Lewis says HUD ’should lend a helping hand’ to rebuild public housing in Cairo
* Ditka on America’s race issues: ‘No oppression in the last 100 years’
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 1:03 pm:
I guess Ditka’s never seen Brian’s Song.
- Levois J - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 1:05 pm:
Very striking image, very striking!
- paddyrollingstone - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 1:08 pm:
As a Sox fan, I appreciate Joe Maddon more and more both as a baseball manager and as a person. I am also glad that his accomplishments with the Cubs will eventually make him the face of coaching in Chicago rather than Mr. Ditka.
- James the Intolerant - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 1:12 pm:
I wish Ditka would get on that train to gone with Pat Quinn.
- Anon Downstate - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 1:12 pm:
More info. on the Alexander County Housing Authority.
Link is: http://thesouthern.com/news/local/in-cairo-hud-takes-possession-of-alexander-county-housing-authority/article_9b142973-d7ff-5b63-bb4c-10d3ffab5781.html
Particularly in Cairo, there really aren’t very many (if ANY) ‘good’ solutions. They had leadership that most would call ‘corrupt’, the physical facilities are basically unrepairable, and the physical location is problematic, at best.
The whole area is subject to periodic flooding, and while the current site may not flood, the area wide flooding certainly affects infrastructure such as sanitary sewer, potable water, transportation, etc. Like it or not, Cairo has many of the same issues for communities trying to re-build in hurricane prone areas.
You just can’t always make it happen.
- Fax Machine - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 1:17 pm:
Rauner made a huge deal about Ditka’s endorsement in 2014 - a reporter should ask Rauner about what he said.
- DeseDemDose - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 1:19 pm:
Ditkas been hit in the head too many times. He sounds like Trump half the time.
- Flutie - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 1:22 pm:
Ditka wasn’t even a good coach, the bears should’ve had at least three superbowls with those teams, go away
- cdog - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 1:23 pm:
excellent photo.
To catch the symbolism of the scene, in the moment, is very cool.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 1:27 pm:
Ditka should have been studying some history when he was in high school.
As only one example, take the African-American men who fought in World War II, Korea, and even Vietnam for the United States. They risked their lives for this country then came home and couldn’t get a job. After WW II and Korea, they couldn’t even go in white-only restaurants or hotels.
The colossal ignorance in a statement that there hasn’t been any oppression in the past 100 years is absolutely stunning.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 1:39 pm:
Ditka thought it was a good idea to bring in Flutie late in the season and start him in the ‘86 playoffs.
Seriously, if you wind Ditka up, you can set him off on a Marxist rant that today’s players and owners owe players of his era money and benefits beyond their old contracts, because they have so much and his generation made so little.
You know, from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
- Cheryl44 - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 1:40 pm:
Is Mike Ditka even famous anymore?
- Sharon - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 1:46 pm:
The old man running in the purple shirt and white headband is grinning at being called “elite”.
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 1:47 pm:
===grinning at being called “elite”===
He wasn’t being called elite. The sport was.
- Last Bull Moose - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 1:48 pm:
When I was being recruited to play football out of high school, Kentucky was still looking for a Negro player to integrate its team. Oppression and racism is less real with each year and generation but is not yet gone.
Someday it will be an odd historical footnote, like the Normans looking down on the conquered Saxons. Even the English have forgotten that history.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 1:55 pm:
DeseDemDose @1:19. His helmet took more punishment from the inside than from the outside. # HeadOfStone.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 2:12 pm:
Our city actually has above average services for the homeless. We have to during the winter months.
- a drop in - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 2:51 pm:
If I cared what Ditka had to saw, I would show him a picture of some “strange fruit” and ask for his comment.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 2:54 pm:
That picture of a moment in time in Chicago that does speak to so much of how Chicago is “levels” and an silent caste system is allowed to thrive.
Mike Ditka spoke of history and those who live in the past losers.
The losers are those blind to history and the past, only thinking that good magically happened, or struggles aren’t ever real.
This is an embarrassing moment, but Ditka may not know that yet.
- Gooner - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 3:00 pm:
Great photo.
For what it is worth, about 50 yards ahead of those runners is a section where homeless constantly live (second level of Columbus between Randolph and Wacker). It is really unfortunate that more cannot be done for them.
That section is heavily traveled to the extent that they become simply part of the scenery. I will admit that I barely notice and that’s really a shame.
We should notice. Every time we go through there, it should bother us.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 3:53 pm:
–Oppression and racism is less real with each year and generation but is not yet gone.–
Yeah, well, Ditka said none since 1916. So…. not a history major at Pitt.
Jim Finks and Buddy Ryan built that team, Ditka got lucky to be along for the ride.
- West Side the Best Side - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 6:17 pm:
Running is the least “elite” sport there is. Anyone can put on a pair of running shoes on and run with the top runners in the world in the same race. They’re not going to do anything but maybe set a personal record, but they’ll be on the same course. I put on a pair of spikes and you won’t see me at Wrigley for the playoffs.
- Blue dog dem - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 6:49 pm:
Gomer. It would be real nice of ya to take in one or two of the homeless. And if ya already have, bravo to ya. Like prayer, these sorts of seeds are kinda personal.
- Blue dog dem - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 6:50 pm:
Deeds
- Wensicia - Tuesday, Oct 10, 17 @ 7:07 pm:
Neil Steinberg gives Ditka the slap back he deserves.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/mike-ditka-racial-issues-dinosaur-steinberg/