Bill Maher apologizes for using the N-word.

[Humanist_Activist]

38. I would imagine that for many people of color, Trump's rise isn't a surprise at all...

particularly when he started appealing to the Tea Party base of the Republican party. They are themselves a wholesale reaction to the fact that a Black Man held the highest office in the land. This is NOT the first time, by any stretch, that whites overreacted to black people getting equality or freedom, from the Civil War to the end of Reconstruction, from the massacre at Tulsa, to the Busing riots and attacks in Boston. Its slightly toned down, and, so far, slightly less violent, but it's more of the same, white people reacting to a loss of privilege, and they also, in the long run, hurt themselves as well.

White liberals, progressives, or however they label themselves, who claim to be for equality, but frankly it's all just showmanship until they are willing to put themselves out there to support the PoC brothers and sisters. Far too many, having little experience in interacting with PoC or their communities, never witness the struggles, or see the challenges, and hence they have difficulty empathizing with PoC as a rule. In a way, it's not their fault, the bubble they find themselves in is one that their parents or grandparents decided for them through white flight and segregation policies. However, as adults, they should endeavour to open their minds and try to learn how other people live, how it's different, and how it's the same.