Bill Maher criticizes NFL for playing Black national anthem
HBO’s Bill Maher on Friday took aim at the NFL’s decision to play “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” long considered the Black national anthem, before games this season, calling it “segregation…
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Maher said during his Friday show, "Maybe we should get rid of our national anthem, but I think we should have one national anthem."
He continued, "I think when you go down a road where you're having two different national anthems, colleges sometimes now have ... many of them have different graduation ceremonies for Black and white, separate dorms. ... This is what I mean: segregation."
Maher included his commentary within a broader discussion of race, arguing that college campuses and classrooms are becoming a "social justice factory."
"When people say to me sometimes, like, 'Boy, you really go after the left these days. Why?' Because you're embarrassing me," Maher explained. "That's why I'm going after the left in a way you never did before."
"I'm not going to give up on being liberal," he continued. "You're taking children and making them hyperaware of race in a way they wouldn't otherwise be."
This dude sucks so much. Out of touch old white dude needs to accept the fact that he's pretty much a conservative now.