“It’s a segregation”: Bill Maher calls on the NFL to play a black national anthem in games, as he warns that it is dangerous to have a anthem for whites and one for blacks
- Bill Maher signed up for the NFL the following Friday in Thursday’s game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
- The talk show host criticized the league for allowing Alicia Keys to perform what she described as “segregation,” but “with a different name.”
- Maher had trouble with the league playing ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ before the national anthem in the first game of the 2021 season
- “I think when you go down a road where you have two different national anthems, a lot of (schools) have different black and white graduation ceremonies.”
- “Separate bedrooms. … That’s what I mean: segregation, ”Maher said the day after Thursday’s match
- “Maybe we should get rid of our national anthem, but I think we should have a national anthem,” Maher added.
Bill Maher targeted the NFL to play Lift Every Voice and Sing (also known as the Black National Anthem) in Thursday’s game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Host The Real Time with Bill Maher warned that having two different national anthems, based on race, was a slippery slope toward “segregation,” but “with a different name,” he said.
“I think when you go down a path where you have two different national anthems, universities … you have different graduation ceremonies for separate black and white dormitories … that’s what I mean: segregation,” Maher Show said. Friday.
“Maybe we should get rid of our national anthem, but I think we should have a national anthem,” he added.
During Friday’s episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the big show crashed into the NFL to play “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before Thursday’s game national anthem
The Florida A&M concert choir from the historically black university (pictured) joined Keys for Thursday’s performance of “Every Voice and Sing,” better known as the “Black National Anthem.”
Maher confronted Alicia Keys, pictured, performing what he calls “segregation” but “with a different name.”
Florida University’s historically black choir A & M’s Concert Choir joined Keys for Thursday’s performance of Every Voice and Sing
Maher went a step further and called on fellow Liberals to create the environment where two National Anthems would be used.
“When people say to me sometimes,‘ boy, today you go a lot to the left, why? I’m like “Because you’re embarrassing me!”
“That’s why I’m going to the left in a way you’ve never done before. I’m not going to give up on being liberal,” he continued.
“Take the kids and make them aware of the race in a way that they otherwise wouldn’t be.”
Eric Reid (left) and Colin Kaepernick (right) protest racist police brutality before a 2016 match
According to The Hill, the NFL also announces its social justice efforts on players ’helmet labels, image, signs, and PSAs.
Florida University’s historically black choir A & M’s Concert Choir joined Keys for Thursday’s performance of Every Voice and Sing. The black national anthem was played before the national anthem in the first game of the 2021 regular season.
The song had already appeared in previous seasons, including the Super Bowl LV, when Buccaneers players and Kansas City bosses teamed up while Keys performed the song.
The league had previously said it would use the song before the “tentpole games” following the NFL’s $ 10 million pledge to fight racism, according to The Hill.
The league also announces its social justice efforts on the labels, signs and PSA of the players ’helmet, according to the media.