Liberal comedian Bill Maher got into a tense exchange with musician John Mellencamp on Monday after the “Pink Houses” singer-songwriter claimed only 1% or 2% of Black people living in America today have better lives than slaves.
During an appearance on Maher’s “Club Random Podcast,” Mellencamp revealed he wrote a song called “From the Cotton Field to the Playing Fields” that he never recorded because he believed it was “wrong.”
The song’s message was an attempt to show how White people love to have Black entertainers and often exploit them.
“I would say that the playing fields are a lot better than the cotton fields,” Maher said 29 minutes into the interview. “That’s what I would say about that. Maybe I’m crazy, John, but it seems like making no money as a slave picking cotton — it was not as good as playing left field for the Yankees.”