We Can’t Believe What Bill Maher Is Saying About Whoopi Goldberg Now
September 30, 2021 by Maria Pierides
Bill Maher has slammed Whoopi Goldberg after she said that America needs a separate Black national anthem in order to “re-educate people.”
The 65-year-old comedian, talk show host, and political commentator’s comments are in relation to the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” which is known as the unofficial Black national anthem. The song was originally written as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in 1900.
If you cast your minds back to two weeks ago, you may remember that Maher called out the National Football League after the song was played during the opening game between the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. While he insists that he doesn’t have a problem with the song, Maher says that he does have a problem with it playing alongside the traditional “Star Spangled Banner.” In his opinion, there should only ever be one National Anthem.
“The only time there should be two national anthems is when one of the teams is from Canada,” Maher said on his HBO show, Real Time with Bill Maher. Interestingly, he said that he would be happy to get rid of the traditional National Anthem and replace it with something else, “we just shouldn’t have two.” Maher went on to say that playing the song alongside the traditional National Anthem was essentially segregation. However, Goldberg didn’t agree with his initial comments, saying that having two Anthems is a great idea because people need to be “re-educated.”