![]() ![]() "Whoopi Goldberg said, quote, 'We're having to re-educate people'. ![]() The Real Time host didn’t agree with Goldberg's comments, and slammed her for what she said about the need to re-educate people. We don’t think talking about Native American people in a really despicable way is not funny." "Now, maybe other people don’t feel like that, but I feel like we have to re-educate and retell people. "We have gone backwards a good 10, 15 years," she continued. She said that it was important to have more than one National Anthem due to how minorities are currently being treated in the country. "We’re having to re-educate people," the 65-year-old EGOT winner said on The View, after his original comments sparked a huge discussion on the talk show. 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.” 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. ![]() “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. 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. 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. The song was originally written as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in 1900. 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. Bill Maher has slammed Whoopi Goldberg after she said that America needs a separate Black national anthem in order to “re-educate people.” ![]()
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