Mike Ditka on NFL Protests: ‘No Oppression in the Last 100 Years’

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DITKA: "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, but 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 into it, I think you can accomplish anything. And we've watched that throughout history of our country, people rise to the top, and they became very influential people in our country by doing the right thing. I don’t think burning the flag, protesting the country — it's not about the country. Right now a lot of this is going on, they're protesting maybe an individual and that's wrong too. You've got a ballot box. You've got an election. That's where you protest. You elect the person you want to be in the office, and if you don't get that person in the office, I think you respect the other one. That's all. I don't think it can be anything else. That's only my opinion now."