Bill Maher says Black voters are not as liberal as you think

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Bill Maher said many people would be surprised to learn that Black Americans are less liberal than they think.

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The Real Time host and comedian Larry Wilmore were discussing the misconceptions about Black voters on Maher’s Club Ransom podcast on Sunday.

“There’s a large Black silent majority in my view,” Maher said. “They’re not as liberal as the white (Democrats).”

He told Wilmore that he knows of Black men who aren’t happy with those who are left-leaning.

“They’re not with AOC,” Maher said, referring to New York’s progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Wilmore wholeheartedly agreed, calling it “1,000% true,” and especially evident among multi-generational Black families and older Black Americans.

The topic of race came up often during the podcast, with the two ripping President Joe Biden’s commencement speech at Morehouse College in May.

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Biden asked graduates of the historically Black college, “What is democracy if you have to be 10 times better than anyone else to get a fair shot?”

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He also told the crowd that an “old ghost and new garments” are trying to take power and threatening their “freedoms.”

Maher dismissed Biden’s words as outdated while Wilmore called the whole thing “condescending” and was like “night and day” compared to the speech given by then-President Barack Obama at the same school.

“Obama’s was all about so many doors have been broken down, you have so many good reasons to hope, and no more excuses, and it went over way better,” Maher said of Obama.

“Of course, it’s obviously a different standard he’s working from as a Black man speaking at that college, but Biden’s was so just so, I thought, 2000-late,” the late-night host noted.

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Wilmore recalled hosting the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2016 and how emotional he was writing about Obama being the first Black president.

“I live in the world of aspiration, not desperation because I know those things exist,” the former Daily Show correspondent said.

“I’ve talked about them, I make jokes about them, always keep it in perspective of if you want to build something, you don’t want to just put Band-aids on things in your life,” Wilmore continued.

“You also want to build things in your life too, and you build things by being inspired.”

Maher called it a “healthier attitude for any individual.”

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