![]() ![]() “I mean, we’re a nation that professes diversity as our strength. You just paid 100 grand for your kid to move to Biloxi, Mississippi in 1948,” Maher snarked. The real crux of the matter came when he cited a survey of 173 colleges that showed that “42%” of them offered segregated living quarters and “72%” offered segregated graduation ceremonies. We decided we’re going to try to make this work together,” Maher recalled. Board of Education ruling which said ‘separate but equal’ isn’t what we do here. It was 67 years ago, in 1954, when the Supreme Court handed down their landmark Brown v. ![]() “I’m not out of step! Believing in separate but equal? That’s out of step - by 67 years. “If we have two anthems, why not three? Or five? Why not a women’s anthem? A Latino anthem? A gay, trans, Indigenous Peoples, an Asian and Pacific Islander anthem? Because ‘I’m not dealing with you, I’m not speaking to you’ is not a way you can run a country and most people of all backgrounds understand that already and don’t even want to try to do it that way,” he posited. It’s about unity and that’s why it’s called a “national” anthem. He referred to himself as an “old school liberal” and reiterated that “segregating by race is bad.” The HBO host is of the opinion that we should probably get rid of “The Star-Spangled Banner” but he contends that there “has to be just one” anthem. Whoopi Goldberg said, quote, ‘We’re having to re-educate people.’ Because nothing ever goes wrong when you start talking about re-education. “It seemed to be a lot about a need to school me about the black national anthem itself. “The program ‘The View’ last week devoted a lot of time to this while somehow avoiding what I actually said,” Maher remarked. Maher bluntly told his audience that his opinion “we shouldn’t have two” anthems is the “correct opinion.” “Real Time” host Bill Maher gave a blistering response to “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg on Friday, doubling down on his premise that there should only be one national anthem instead of an additional black national anthem. ![]()
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