we d love to have you work in the fields with us. work in the fields? that s part of the [ laughter ] senator, i m a house nigga. no, it s a joke. so, this evening, bill maher addressed what he said on the show, speaking with michael eric dyson about it. listen to this. there is a lot of bullshit apologizing in america, and i am against that, but you know, we shouldn t apologize for slavery and japanese internment and abu ghraib and indian genocide and tuskegee and so, when appropriate, this was appropriate, because i ll tell you why, because for black folks, that word, i don t care who you are, has caused pain. i m not here to do that. right. now, the guy who was here, it s not his fault. i feel bad about him, the senator. it s all on me. but he said a weird thing. the comic mind goes to a weird place sometimes. yeah. but it doesn t matter that it wasn t said in malice, it wasn t if it brought back