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Club Random with Bill Maher
Club Random
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🗓️ 29 June 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Because, and especially now, this crazy world and social media, and people can attack anonymously. |
| 0:05.1 | It's a whole, right? |
| 0:07.4 | But I've always been fascinated when people tell you anyone, but especially if you're a public figure, that this is how you should act or speak or vote or whatever based on your skin color. |
| 0:23.3 | And with Tiger and Michael Jordan, they kept saying, well, you need to do this and stand |
| 0:27.6 | up more for the black community. And they said, you know, why? Because we have the same |
| 0:32.5 | similar skin color? Like, what are the rules there? And I always was a little not knowing them, especially at the time, |
| 0:40.4 | why is there pressure? Why is there pressure from, you know, the black community to say, |
| 0:47.5 | you must do this. And I respect them for doing what you did, which is saying, this is how I choose |
| 0:53.5 | to live, regardless of what the |
| 0:55.1 | expectations are. Why do you think there's that kind of pressure that people put on each |
| 1:00.0 | other? |
| 1:01.0 | Well, I think most people are not. They don't think as individuals. I don't know. Let me |
| 1:05.8 | see if I can put this into words without offending anybody. Listen, it's great. |
| 1:11.6 | Let me repeat the quote that you said. |
| 1:13.6 | At this stage of my life, I don't need to apologize for anything. |
| 1:16.6 | So you say what you want to say. |
| 1:17.6 | Yes. |
| 1:18.6 | That's pretty much it, I guess. |
| 1:21.6 | Listen, if people want to join organizations, they want to join groups, if they want to create |
| 1:29.8 | a kind of solidarity that gives them credence or some purpose, that's fine. |
| 1:38.6 | But there are those of us who don't need to go through life in that way. |
| 1:46.3 | Being put in a box almost. |
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