African American

Perhaps seeing it in text will help:


“Adults dress up for Halloween, they don’t do that in Nebraska?” Maher asked.

“It’s frowned upon,” Sasse replied. “We don’t do that quite as much.”

“I gotta get to Nebraska more,” Maher said.

“You’re welcome; we’d love to have you work in the fields with us,” Sasse joked.

“Work in the fields,” Maher scoffed. “Senator, I’m a house nigger.”

“You still working in the fields out there, huh?” Maher said.

“Yeah,” Sasse said. “We want our kids to suffer.”




Now do I think he should have said it? Nope.

I just understand what he was going for from a comedic standpoint.

Obviously it backfired because rather than get "laughs" he got shock/outrage.


Hopefully he'll learn from this experience.