Bill Maher has hit back at Whoopi Goldberg after she slammed his remarks on the "Black national anthem".
Maher's comments came after Goldberg criticized the political commentator for what he said about the NFL playing 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' known as the Black national anthem, before football games, The Hill reports.
Maher said on Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday: "The only time there should be two national anthems is when the other team is from Canada.
Listen to Maher's comments about the National Anthem:Maher said that if there are two national anthems, it results in "segregation ... under a different name."
"There's not a Black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America. There's the United States of America," he said.
Now, Goldberg has slammed Maher on The View.
She said "we're having to reeducate people" on how to treat women and minorities because "we have gone backward a good 10, 15 years."
The 'Sister Act' actress explained that 'Lift Every Voice and Sing', which was played before the 2021 season opener between the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is considered to be the Black national anthem because "the separation of the anthems has been so clear to us."
Below, Goldberg responds to Maher:"Now, maybe other people don't feel like that, but I feel like we have to reeducate and retell people. We don't think rape humor's funny," Goldberg said. "We don't think talking about Native American people in a really despicable way is not funny."
However, as per the Hill, Maher has reacted to Goldberg's response and said it "seemed to be a lot about a need to school me on the Black national anthem itself."
"When it comes to an anthem, it doesn’t have to be the one that we currently use, but it has to be just one, you know, because it's a national anthem," Maher said.
"And symbols of unity matter," he continued. "And purposefully fragmenting things by race reinforces a terrible message that we are two nations hopelessly drifting apart from each other. That's not where we were 10 years ago, and it shouldn't be where we are now."