Watch: Bill Maher Rips Into Whoopi Goldberg, Liberals On National Anthem Debate

Written By BlabberBuzz | Sunday, 26 September 2021 12:00 PM
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Bill Maher has crashed 'The View' host Whoopi Goldberg after she declared that America needs a separate black national anthem to 'reeducate people'.

Maher had hit out at the NFL two weeks ago after Alicia Keys performed Lift Every Voice and Sing - otherwise perceived as the black national anthem - at a Thursday night football game.

He informed that having separate anthems for different people was 'segregation' yet 'under a different name'.

Maher reasserted he isn't opposed to a new national anthem yet 'We just shouldn't have two… I am what you might call an old school liberal who was brought up with the crazy idea that segregating by race is bad. That's what I was talking about.'

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Maher asked if the nation has two anthems for black and white Americans who stay there and pondered why there shouldn't be an Anthem for women, gays, and other races like Latinos and Asians.

'Symbols of unity matter,' Maher maintained. 'And purposefully fragmenting things by race reinforces a terrible message that we are two nations hopelessly drifting apart from each other. That's not where we were even ten years ago and it's not where we should be now,' Maher announced.

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The host then played a clip of Barack Obama's famous 2004 address at the Democratic National Convention where he states 'There is not a Black America or a White America … there is the United States of America,' and announced 'where we should be now is here.'

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Maher connected Goldberg's line of thinking to reinforcing segregation and stated that the nation is past that mentality.

'I’m not out of step. Believing in separate but equal. That’s out of step by 67 years,' he told his listeners. 'It was 67 years ago, in 1954, when the Supreme Court handed down their landmark Brown v Board of Education ruling, which said, separate but equal isn’t what we do here. We decided we’re going to try to make this work together.'

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Maher originally commented on the matter after Alicia Keys was joined by the historically black university Florida A&M's Concert Choir for a performance of the black national anthem at an NFL game earlier this month.

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Lift Every Voice and Sing was played before the national anthem at the first game of the regular 2021 season.

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The song had already appeared in earlier seasons, including Super Bowl LV when players from the Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs joined hands while Keys presented the song.

The league had previously announced it will use the song before 'tentpole games' following the NFL's $250 million, 10-year pledge to fight racism, The Hill reports.

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The league is further advertising their social justice efforts on player's helmet decals, signs and PSAs, according to the news outlet.

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