It's typical of a considerable number of white Americans who are quite content to live in a white supremacist society--although many, including our Mr. Ditka, would never say so publicly, or would couch their statements in terms of "code words".

This is REAL "affirmative action", and it's as old as the US itself.  Ditka could walk down the street of the worst ghetto or barrio in America and be safer than the people who live there, because the full force of the American police state is at his back--instead of being aimed AT him. 

Ms. Schmich seems to have misdiagnosed his malady, however--I suspect Ditka suffers from wet-feet/pyramid vision syndrome--he's deep in deNile.  This is also known as the 'let them eat cake' syndrome.