The way Bill Maher is waging clandestine culture war on the minds of Black America is really impressive.

So I recently watched Bill’s interview with John McWhorter interview. It’s interesting, it wasn’t a conversation as much as it was a sermon. I have no ill feelings for McWhorter, but it was as if he wasn’t there.

He served as a proxy for Bill himself to speak directly to America about what Black Americans are “really” like, and are “really” thinking. This was reiterated several times during the interview, the notion that the outrage you see on Twitter and in the media isn’t

Actually the way Black people feel. McWhorter blasted books like White Fragility and how to be an Anti-Racist,

Basically saying they were pandering nonsense that many, if not most Black Americans find patronizing. None of these ideas are new or revolutionary, respectability politics have always been around, but what’s interesting about Bill’s recent

Infatuation with the minds of Black people is the myopic lens that he’s using to tell the story. It seems as if he’s got all kinds of opinions about what we’re doing wrong to free ourselves, and he’s hell bent on telling us outright, but he can’t.

So, he using a Black avatar in the form of someone inside our community as proxy. I don’t take issue with platforming McWhorter, I find him interesting, I do think it’s telling that Bill hasn’t seemed to want dialogue with the people he claims are wrong ... “the wokies”

What’s really happening, in my opinion, is that Bill Maher is actually using his gigantic platform to poke holes in the movement, and destabilize support from outside the community. He’s sick of us “complaining” and he’s attempting to create new voices that don’t.

There are scores of Black Folk who could speak to the need for American intellectual reformation, but it doesn’t seem as if Maher (who I’ve watched since college) wants to hear from them. He very simply, wants to replace them. And Real Time is his vehicle to do it.