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edbermac

(15,940 posts)
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 04:36 PM Oct 2017

"There has been no oppression in the last 100 years that I know of"

Last edited Tue Oct 10, 2017, 08:08 PM - Edit history (3)

In his prime, former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka was considered a good offensive mind. These days, he’s 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 doesn’t think anyone has been oppressed in the last 100 years, so NFL players who kneel in protest of racial inequity aren’t 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 I’m 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














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"There has been no oppression in the last 100 years that I know of" (Original Post) edbermac Oct 2017 OP
Ditka is not known for being a deep thinker. n/t LuckyCharms Oct 2017 #1
Ditka moondust Oct 2017 #2
He'd already been hit in the head 72 times by 1963 CanonRay Oct 2017 #3
that also was my thought Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #4
That's no excuse. progressoid Oct 2017 #19
I wasn't making one. CanonRay Oct 2017 #20
Send this thread to him-maybe that will jog his memory. Boomerproud Oct 2017 #5
Willful ignorance is a terrible thing. GeorgeGist Oct 2017 #6
The loser in chief is not the only moron. cwydro Oct 2017 #7
My first thought was that he must have had a lot of concussions. TNNurse Oct 2017 #8
His close personnal Friend who Wellstone ruled Oct 2017 #9
Thanks for the great photos. As they say, "A picture is worth 1000 words" iluvtennis Oct 2017 #10
I like how the N----- go home sign is all nice and professionally printed. Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2017 #11
Thinking about that era, they probably were off the shelf. George II Oct 2017 #13
The man is supposed to be a college graduate. Did he sleep through his American History classes? George II Oct 2017 #12
You really liked those cheap helmets, eh, Mike? TheCowsCameHome Oct 2017 #14
Let's boycott the companies that use this POS as a TV shill Fritz Walter Oct 2017 #15
Dirks, who led the Bears to the Super Bowl benld74 Oct 2017 #16
STEINBERG: Mike Ditka is not a Chicagoan mopinko Oct 2017 #17
Was he getting multiple brain concussions at the time? Crunchy Frog Oct 2017 #18
Says the ellie Oct 2017 #21

Boomerproud

(7,954 posts)
5. Send this thread to him-maybe that will jog his memory.
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 05:07 PM
Oct 2017

Notice he said it to a white guy-not Shannon Sharpe, for instance.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
9. His close personnal Friend who
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 05:32 PM
Oct 2017

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.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
11. I like how the N----- go home sign is all nice and professionally printed.
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 06:10 PM
Oct 2017

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)
12. The man is supposed to be a college graduate. Did he sleep through his American History classes?
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 06:20 PM
Oct 2017

Plus he played in the NFL during the 1960s, did he sleep through all of that?

What an ass.

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
15. Let's boycott the companies that use this POS as a TV shill
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 06:31 PM
Oct 2017

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)
16. Dirks, who led the Bears to the Super Bowl
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 06:32 PM
Oct 2017

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.

Crunchy Frog

(26,587 posts)
18. Was he getting multiple brain concussions at the time?
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 06:46 PM
Oct 2017

If your brains are oatmeal, you may not be noticing much that's going on around you.

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