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Mike Ditka: There has been no oppression in U.S. in last 100 years

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Air Langhi, Oct 10, 2017.

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  1. Air Langhi

    Air Langhi Contributing Member

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    Pro Football Hall of Famer Mike Ditka said during a radio interview Monday that he doesn't believe there has been oppression in the United States in the "last 100 years."

    The former NFL tight end and head coach made his comments in an interview with Jim Gray on Westwood One's Monday Night Football pregame show, when discussing the issue of players sitting or kneeling during the national anthem as a way to protest social injustice.

    The issue has been a topic of a national debate, which intensified after President Donald Trump's comments that NFL owners should "fire" players who don't stand for the anthem.

    "All of a sudden, it's become a big deal now, about oppression," Ditka said. "There has been no oppression in the last 100 years that I know of. Now maybe I'm not watching it as carefully as other people. I think the opportunity is there for everybody. ... If you want to work, if you want to try, if you want to put effort into yourself, I think you can accomplish anything."

    http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/20981484/mike-ditka-claims-no-oppression-last-100-years

    I know football players/coaches aren't the smartest bunch, but man this is pretty stupid to say. Ditka was in his 20s through civil rights movement so you can't even make the excuse he didn't pay attention in school.
     
    #1 Air Langhi, Oct 10, 2017
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    Still a lot of people who remember colored water fountains...
     
    #2 dmoneybangbang, Oct 10, 2017
  3. Ottomaton

    Ottomaton Contributing Member
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    Let them eat cake.

    There's what you know, what you know you don't know, and what you don't know you don't know.
     
    #3 Ottomaton, Oct 10, 2017
  4. NewRoxFan

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    Was he wearing a red baseball cap at the time?
     
    #4 NewRoxFan, Oct 10, 2017
  5. ipaman

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    This thread should be in the hangout so we can make fun of Ditka. Not really D&D material imo. Ditka is an idiot and thankfully only represents Ditka.
     
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  6. JuanValdez

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    I think we can still make fun of him here.
     
    #6 JuanValdez, Oct 10, 2017
  7. ipaman

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    yea but it's not d&d unless we're creating threads for every old white male out of touch one-time celebrity.
     
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  8. leroy

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    He said that he knew of. Maybe he grew up in a town of all white people.

    Of course, then he went to Pitt and then played in Chicago...so it's entirely likely that he's just full of s***.
     
    #8 leroy, Oct 10, 2017
  9. No Worries

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    Ditka is so old that he played football before the invention of helmets.

    Explains everything.
     
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  10. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    This belongs in the uneducated angry white Trumpanzee thread.
     
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    Well said. That seems like the best option for any Ditka related news.
     
    #11 FranchiseBlade, Oct 10, 2017
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    Ditka kind of invented the catching tight-end: between this, Flutie signing and the Ricky Williams draft you see how tunnel vision kept him from being as prolific as Parcells or Reeves despite their all having learned from Landry.
     
    #12 Dairy Ashford, Oct 10, 2017
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    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    Not defending Ditka and the hundred years but i also have a problem with the use of the word "oppression" in these protests.

    You would swear we didn't just have a black president
     
    #13 pgabriel, Oct 10, 2017
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    Our local transit station still has Colored Waiting Room engraved on it (for historical purposes).

    My Grandpa and his you won't believe this, but when I was growing up, colored people used to have separate bathrooms.
     
    #14 juicystream, Oct 10, 2017
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    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    Not sure what those two things have to do with each other.
     
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    What does that have to do with ... anything? India has had women Presidents while simultaneously having honor killings. Having a black or female President doesn't suddenly just eliminate all oppression. It's weird that anyone would even think that.
     
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    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    Its weird that anyone would think blacks are oppressed in 2017and ridiculous people use the word regardless
     
    #17 pgabriel, Oct 10, 2017
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    Dismissing this as Ditka being s buffoon misses the mark.

    I know plenty of people who voted for trump who feel the same way.
     
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  19. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    Depends on your definition of oppressed. Do you think blacks as a whole are treated the same as whites as a whole?
     
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  20. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    Really. You think a place where a group of people are oppressed member of the oppressed can become the leader of the free world?

    That makes more sense than what i wrote?
     
    #20 pgabriel, Oct 10, 2017
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