And now, more bigotry

Never mind slowing  down the Bastard Plague. How do we slow down the ignorance-and-stupidity plague?

It's not enough that we've got a President who's a Confederate flag hugger. Now we've got Sportsball people saying Hitler made 'em do it.

This upon the uproar surrounding Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson posting a virulently anti-Semitic tweet, then offering an apology so lame it needed a walker. Essentially, here was the gist:

1. I didn't say it. Hitler said it. I was just quoting it.

2. And I really didn't understand what it was saying.

O-kaaay there, DeSean.

I guess we'll just forgo the obvious question, then, which is why you were posting a Hitler quote on Instagram to start with. Also the other obvious question, which is what about "(white Jews) will blackmail America, the will extort America" did you not understand?

Sorry, DeSean. But if apologies were pass routes, you quit on that one.

Look. Jackson isn't the first and won't be the last athlete on social media to hit "send" when he should have hit "delete." And he isn't the first and won't be the last to go into backpedal mode after he got caught out, promising "to do better" to "fully educate" himself and "seek out voices from other communities and listen to their words, thoughts and beliefs."

Sounds good. Hope he does it.

And as a first step toward educating himself, perhaps he should start with this: The names Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner.

Those are the three men they found buried in an earthen dam in Mississippi  on a sweltering August day in 1964. They'd been murdered by racists six weeks before for the unforgivable crime of trying to register black voters.

James Chaney was a black man from Mississippi. Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner were white men from New York.

They were both Jewish.