Ed Show Guest: Former NFL Coach Mike Ditka Is a 'Segregation-Era Player' Who Dictated 'His Will' to 'Black Players'

Curtis Houck | August 28, 2014
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More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.

To close out his MSNBC show on Thursday, Ed Schultz invited on a Native American social activist to discuss the push by liberals and sympathetic members of the sports media to force the NFL’s Washington Redskins to change their name. 

In discussing recent supporters of the name in Sarah Palin and former NFL coach and player Mike Ditka, author and Native American activist Gyasi Ross smeared Ditka for being a “segregation-era football player who became, appropriately, a coach of – of a team – a team – an NFL team that was comprised largely of black players that he could dictate his will to.”

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