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In his prime, former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka was considered a good offensive mind. These days, hes mostly just showing himself as offensive and mindless.
The latest was Ditka telling sports journalist Jim Gray during the Monday Night Football pregame show that he doesnt think anyone has been oppressed in the last 100 years, so NFL players who kneel in protest of racial inequity arent protesting anything real.
There has been no oppression in the last 100 years that I know of, said Ditka, a Hall of Famer and supporter of President Donald Trump. Now maybe Im not watching it as carefully as other people. I think the opportunity is there for everybody ― race, religion, creed, color, nationality. If you want to work, if you want to try, if you want to put effort in, I think you can accomplish anything, and we have watched that throughout our history of our country.
Ditka, born in 1939, would have been close to 30 years old during the height of the civil rights movement in the late 1960s. Yet he apparently has no memory of it.
Yep, no oppression seen here.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-ditka-oppression_us_59dcd977e4b00377980c03ad?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
LuckyCharms
(17,441 posts)moondust
(19,988 posts)has always been a RW POS IIRC.
CanonRay
(14,103 posts)He missed a few things
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)scrambled eggs for a mind
progressoid
(49,991 posts)CanonRay
(14,103 posts)Boomerproud
(7,954 posts)Notice he said it to a white guy-not Shannon Sharpe, for instance.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Smh.
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)Then I realized he is just a racist.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)lives across the street form us had this to say this morning about Mike. Mike has Dementia and needs someone to be with him 24/7. Totally broke financially and his Business Friends throw him a bone from time to time keeping him in walk around money. BTW,the Neighbor is the God Parents to Ditka's kids.
iluvtennis
(19,861 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Now, was that special order, or did he get it off the shelf at his local 5 and dime?
Also, Ditka is an idiot.
George II
(67,782 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Plus he played in the NFL during the 1960s, did he sleep through all of that?
What an ass.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Idiot
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Every so often, I venture into broadcast TV land, and occasionally see this washed-up has-been shilling one product or another, especially late-night, and on secondary channels.
A quick Google turned up several sponsors:
-Al's Beef
-Nancy's Pizza
-CarShield.
The first two are Chicagoland businesses, obviously pandering to the few remaining Bears fans who might be persuaded to dine at their places because Dick-head says to. CarShield? I dunno. And I have too much else to do to research the connection. Here's a useful link: Ditka for whore, (oops! that should read "hire".)
I want to say there's at least several others, but I cannot recall them because I'm too fast on the remote -- to either mute this POS or switch to another channel.
Regardless, progressives should write to these companies and tell them that -- in light of his recent remarks -- they will shop elsewhere and tell others to do likewise.
Fade into oblivion, motherfucker!
benld74
(9,904 posts)And then
Instead of allowing Walter Payton a scoring touchdown in the event
Gave into the circus and ran a play where Refrigerator Perry scored.
Never forgave him for that slight, IMHO.
mopinko
(70,112 posts)good response. not sampling, cuz that title should be enough to get you to click.
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)If your brains are oatmeal, you may not be noticing much that's going on around you.
ellie
(6,929 posts)delusional white guy.