Bill Maher 6/9/17

[Rev. Rye]

Some one on the show said something like, 'Bill, you can come work in the fields with us' and Maher replied, 'Work in the fields?  I'm a house nigger.'

'House nigger' is a reference to slaves who worked in the house (duh) as maids, cleaners, cooks and such.  I have trouble seeing Maher's use of the word in this context as anything approaching racism.

Boru

That just makes the complaints all the more petty. He can't even make a self depreciating joke now?

I guess it's a lot easier to focus on some sort of unseemly bullshit (and I use this in the Frankfurtian sense of the word) than to focus on the larger issues, or to think that somehow by fighting that, you're somehow helping the larger issues.