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MLK Day, Drum Major Instinct, Trump, Obama Farewell Speech, Racism, Mentoring, I Have a Dream, Mountain Top, Closing Remarks and more. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: You know I want to remind everybody today that you
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  Speaker 1: got to keep pressing forward. Man. I know it gets
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  Speaker 1: difficult out there sometimes, but you got to keep pressing forward.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing else for you to do. The option of quitting,
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  Speaker 1: turning back, giving up it cannot be there. The thoughts
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  Speaker 1: can pop into your head, but when they do, you
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  Speaker 1: got to pray about it. But you got to keep
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  Speaker 1: pressing forward. You got to keep it moving. Man. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care how dark and dirty it get for you.
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  Speaker 1: You got to somehow summing it up within you to
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  Speaker 1: keep it moving, to keep pressing forward, because the only
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  Speaker 1: way you're gonna get it is you got to stay
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  Speaker 1: in the race. You know, you've heard it said a
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  Speaker 1: thousand times. The race isn't given to the swift, but
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  Speaker 1: to him that didn't do it to the end. You
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  Speaker 1: got to stay with it, whatever it is. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what it is for you, but whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: you got to stay with it. Because Quentin, Quentin, don't Quentin,
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  Speaker 1: don't let you see the end result, give it up.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let you see the end results. Turning back, don't
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  Speaker 1: let you see the end. The only way to see
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  Speaker 1: the end results is you got to finish the race.
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  Speaker 1: You got to stay in the race because the victory
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  Speaker 1: may be nearer than it seems. There's a poem I
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  Speaker 1: learned in college under some stressful situations, I just said
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  Speaker 1: like that. There is a stanza in this poem called
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  Speaker 1: don't Quit. This says, often the goal is nearer than
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  Speaker 1: it seems to a faint and a faltering man, And
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  Speaker 1: often the struggler has given up when he might have
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  Speaker 1: captured the victor's cup, and he learns too late when
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  Speaker 1: the night came down, how close he was to the
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  Speaker 1: golden crown. Now that's just a stanza in it. The
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  Speaker 1: poem is much longer than that. I know the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing because I learned it. But I've always remembered that
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  Speaker 1: poem that the goal is often nearer than it seems
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  Speaker 1: to a faint and a faltering man. And oftentimes the
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  Speaker 1: struggler has given up when he might have captured the
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  Speaker 1: victor's cup, but then he learns too late, when the
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  Speaker 1: night came down, how close he was to the golden crown.
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  Speaker 1: And there's the last stands of the poem says, it
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  Speaker 1: may be near when it seems afar, So stick to
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  Speaker 1: the fight when your hardest hit. It's when things seem
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  Speaker 1: worse that you mustn't quit. That poem is really doesn't
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  Speaker 1: It's an unknown author to the poem, so if you
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  Speaker 1: want to look it up, it's called don't Quit. The
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  Speaker 1: author is unknown. They never knew who it was. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm talking to you today from this dandpoint
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  Speaker 1: of encouragement. I want to show you an analogy that
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  Speaker 1: I tripped on this morning when I was thinking about
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  Speaker 1: something I wanted and I was thinking, you know, okay,
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  Speaker 1: if you have a job, the way you have to
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  Speaker 1: do your job, your job forces you to do this,
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  Speaker 1: so you can't just randomly do this on your job.
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  Speaker 1: A job forces you to plan ahead a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You know. A job requires that you go through the
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  Speaker 1: procedures in order for something to happen that you want
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Example, you want a vacation, you have to
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  Speaker 1: put in for that vacation, and that's what it's called
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  Speaker 1: on your job, just put in. You may dress it
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  Speaker 1: up some other way, but the common sense you have
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  Speaker 1: to put in. You got to do that because the
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  Speaker 1: job requires it. You got to put in for your vacation.
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  Speaker 1: If you want a promotion and you see it post
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  Speaker 1: it somewhere that we are now have a position opening,
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  Speaker 1: you got to put in for that. You just can't
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  Speaker 1: sit back and hope they pick you, because they're probably
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  Speaker 1: going to pick the person who wants it, who shows
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  Speaker 1: the initiative to go get it. So you have to
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  Speaker 1: put in for a promotion on a lot of jobs.
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  Speaker 1: If you want some days off, a couple of days here,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days there, you got to put in
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  Speaker 1: for that. But all of these are things that you want.
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  Speaker 1: You want vacations, you want a day off here, and
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  Speaker 1: now you want some promotions. If you want to raise,
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  Speaker 1: you have to go in and request a raise. It
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  Speaker 1: requires an action on your part on your job. And
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  Speaker 1: guess what, we've all accepted this as this is the
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  Speaker 1: way it's done. You want to raise, you have to
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  Speaker 1: put in for a raise. You want to raise, you
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  Speaker 1: got to go in and have a meeting and take
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  Speaker 1: a request so you can show your value to get
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  Speaker 1: to raise. You want a vacation time, you got to
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  Speaker 1: put in for that. And then they got they could
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  Speaker 1: tell you, yeah, your name, you want a promotion, same
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  Speaker 1: thing you want some day is all same thing. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's to deal with your job. Well, that's to deal
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  Speaker 1: with your life too. That exact picture that I paint
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  Speaker 1: it for you that you're all so very much aware
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  Speaker 1: of that. You're very crystal clear on the rules and
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  Speaker 1: regulations that you have no problem following him the same
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  Speaker 1: rules for your life. What you mean by that, Steve,
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  Speaker 1: you got to put in with God. You got to
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  Speaker 1: put in for what you want with God all you
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  Speaker 1: and it's as simple as that you put in. See,
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  Speaker 1: you know you want some more of this, some more
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  Speaker 1: that you got to put in with God. You put
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  Speaker 1: in with your job. You go down, then ask that
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  Speaker 1: man what you want and you ain't got no problem
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  Speaker 1: following the rules. Well, put in with God what you
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  Speaker 1: want or your list? What's your requests? What? What? What? What? What?
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  Speaker 1: Do you really want? How much money you really trying
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  Speaker 1: to make? Were you really trying to live? What kind
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  Speaker 1: of career and job would you really like to have?
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  Speaker 1: What kind of person would you really like to be?
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  Speaker 1: What type of family are you hoping and wishing for?
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  Speaker 1: Who is the person you want in your life? What
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  Speaker 1: type of person do you? What's the relationship you're looking for?
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  Speaker 1: What you want? You got to put in for that.
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  Speaker 1: You got to put in. You got to go to
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  Speaker 1: God and put in for that. See where follow the
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  Speaker 1: rules set to us up, set us up and set
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  Speaker 1: up by us in a system? But were simple rules
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  Speaker 1: of putting in for your life? Man, we don't even
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  Speaker 1: do that. I wish I would put in for a
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  Speaker 1: job and not put in for God. You gotta be
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  Speaker 1: kidding me. You think this man that has this company
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  Speaker 1: has more to offer to you in terms of vacation
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  Speaker 1: promos and raisors than God God for you for your life? Man,
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  Speaker 1: you keep putting too much faith in man, that's what's
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  Speaker 1: wrong with us. I show hope he give me this rais,
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  Speaker 1: I'll show home. I don't even go to people with that.
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  Speaker 1: I go to God about it. Then God touched in
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  Speaker 1: people's hearts. Then when I walk in there, it's already done.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you capture this thing, folks. This is not
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  Speaker 1: a magic trick. It's just a real simple understanding. Why
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  Speaker 1: would you not put it in with God? If you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna put in on your job? Don't make no sense.
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  Speaker 1: Where you get the job from? Where your job, where
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  Speaker 1: your boss get his position from? Why did this company
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  Speaker 1: come from? See when you peel back to but now?
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  Speaker 1: They all make a lot of sense, don't it. It
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  Speaker 1: really does. And I'm just a common sense guy. You know. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have the education that a lot of people have,
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  Speaker 1: but I gotta show show enough bunch of life experience. Though.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I've been I've been getting smacked and knocked down
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  Speaker 1: the majority of my life. Oh I may look good
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  Speaker 1: to you now there look like he got a shine
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  Speaker 1: going on. And I am grateful to God for my
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  Speaker 1: life that I got now because this show ain't the
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  Speaker 1: one I had but I got news for you. It
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  Speaker 1: ain't the one I thought I was gonna have until
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  Speaker 1: I put it in for. I ain't seen none of
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  Speaker 1: this until I put in for. And you know, after
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  Speaker 1: as I saw it shaping informing, then I said, God,
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  Speaker 1: could that really be happening? I wonder if you could
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  Speaker 1: make me this? Lord? I was wondering, Man, could I
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  Speaker 1: really have a syndicate radio show? Lord, I'm make it
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  Speaker 1: happen if it's in your way. I put in for,
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  Speaker 1: I put in for it. Now. I'm working my tail
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  Speaker 1: off now because that's a part of it. See. But
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  Speaker 1: then God tells you that too. He says, faith without
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  Speaker 1: works is dead. Or I'm working my behind off. But
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  Speaker 1: the big thing is I put in for it. So
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  Speaker 1: I got a bunch of more stuff that I didn't
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  Speaker 1: put in for God. I can't tell y'all what it is,
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  Speaker 1: but oh, Lord, have mercy. I'm in line. I'm putting
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  Speaker 1: in for all the blessings that's due me. If there's
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  Speaker 1: a ray, If God's plassing out of raising blessings, I'm
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  Speaker 1: lined up. He passing out of promotion, He's gonna promote
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  Speaker 1: some more blessings. I'm lined up. He want to send
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  Speaker 1: me on a bigger vacation. I'm lined up. He passing
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  Speaker 1: out extra checks down at the job. I'm lined up
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  Speaker 1: because I'm putting in. Why don't you put in too?
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  Speaker 1: Come on, y'all talk to God. He loved to hear
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  Speaker 1: from you. You're listening show. Hey, y'all listen. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: is the most This is the biggest national holiday though,
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  Speaker 1: or for a person. For me, mar Luther King, you
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  Speaker 1: know it. To me, it's just one of the best
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  Speaker 1: because of what he did in the contributions he made,
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  Speaker 1: in that damn car. She said, I'm so sick of
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  Speaker 1: you sang another no, I said. She reached up, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm hearing my daddy driving right. I'm on that hume
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  Speaker 1: because I'm sitting between. I'm on for anyway. I shut
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  Speaker 1: man smart, that's IM singing, she said. She slapped me
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  Speaker 1: so hard, man, she busted my limp I sit back.
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  Speaker 1: My brother said, man, you bought a stupid That's funny anyway. Man,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, everybody. We're gonna celebrate the life
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  Speaker 1: from Martin Luther King today. We're gonna be talking about
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  Speaker 1: all the great stuff. He deserves it. He really really does.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll be back with more of the Steve
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  Speaker 1: Harvey Morning Show on this doctor Martin Luther King day.
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  Speaker 1: Right after this. You're listening morning show right now. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the drum major sting speech on the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: An instinct, it's a kind of drum major instinct. A
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  Speaker 1: desire to be out front, a desire to lead the parade,
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  Speaker 1: a desire to be first. It is something that runs
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  Speaker 1: a whole gamut of life. And so before we condemn them,
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  Speaker 1: let us see that we all have the drum major instinct.
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  Speaker 1: We all want to be important, to surpass others, to
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  Speaker 1: achieve distinction, to lead the parade. Alfred Adler the Great,
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  Speaker 1: a psychoanalyst, contends that this is the dominant impulse. Sigmund
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  Speaker 1: Fraud used to contend that sex was the dominant impulse,
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  Speaker 1: and Adla came with a new argument, saying that this
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  Speaker 1: quest for recognition, this desire for attenion, this desire for distinction,
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  Speaker 1: is the basic impulse, the basic drive of human human life,
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  Speaker 1: this drum major instinct. And you know, we begin earlier
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  Speaker 1: to ask life to put us first. Our first cry
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  Speaker 1: as a baby was a bid for attension, and all
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  Speaker 1: through childhood the drum major impulse or instinct is a
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  Speaker 1: major obsession. Children ask life to grant them first place.
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  Speaker 1: They are a little bundle of ego. They have innately
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  Speaker 1: the drum major instinct. Now an adult life, we still
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  Speaker 1: have it, and we really never get by it. We
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  Speaker 1: like to do something good, and you know, we like
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  Speaker 1: to be praised for it. Now, if you don't believe that,
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  Speaker 1: you just go on living life, and you will discover
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  Speaker 1: very soon that you like to be praised. Everybody likes it,
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  Speaker 1: as a matter of fact. And somehow this warm glow
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  Speaker 1: we feel when we are praised or when our name
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  Speaker 1: is in print is something of the vitamin aid to
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  Speaker 1: our ego. Nobody is unhappy when they are praised, even
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  Speaker 1: if they know they don't deserve it, and even if
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  Speaker 1: they don't believe it. The only unhappy people about praise
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  Speaker 1: is when that praise is going too much towards somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: But everybody likes to be praised because of this real
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  Speaker 1: drum major instinct. Do you know that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the race problem grows out of the drum major instinct,
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  Speaker 1: A need that some people have to feel superior, A
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  Speaker 1: need that some people have to feel that they are first,
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  Speaker 1: and to feel that their white skin are gained them
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  Speaker 1: to be first. They have said over and over the
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  Speaker 1: game in ways that we see with our own eyes.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, not too long ago, a man down in
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  Speaker 1: Mississippis said that God was a child a member of
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  Speaker 1: the White Citizens Council. And so God being the child
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  Speaker 1: a member means that everybody who's in that has us
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  Speaker 1: a kind of divinity, a kind of superiority. And think
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  Speaker 1: of what has happened in historism as a result, dis
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  Speaker 1: perverted use of the drum mage instincts led to the
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  Speaker 1: most tragic prejudice, the most tragic expressions of man's inhumanity
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  Speaker 1: to man. I mean, not only does this thing go
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  Speaker 1: into the racial struggle, goes into the struggle between nations.
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  Speaker 1: And I would submit to you this morning that what
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  Speaker 1: is wrong in the world today is that the nations
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  Speaker 1: of the world are engaged in a bitter, colossal contest
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  Speaker 1: for supremacy, and some doesn't having to stop this trend.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorely afred that we won't be here to talk
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  Speaker 1: about Jesus Christ and about God and about brotherhood too
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  Speaker 1: many more years. Somebody done bringing into this suicidal thrust
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  Speaker 1: that we see in the world today. None of us
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  Speaker 1: are gonna be around because somebody is gonna make the mistake,
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  Speaker 1: through our senseless blunderings, of dropping a nuclear bomb somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: and then another one is gonna drop. And don't let
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  Speaker 1: anybody fool you, this can happen within a matter of seconds.
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  Speaker 1: They have twenty megaton b in Russia right now. That
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  Speaker 1: can destroy US city as big as New York in
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  Speaker 1: three seconds with everybody wiped away in every building, And
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  Speaker 1: we can do the same thing to Russian China. But
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  Speaker 1: this is why we are drifted, and we are drifting
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  Speaker 1: now because nations are caught up with the German major instinct.
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  Speaker 1: I must be first, I must be supreme all a
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  Speaker 1: nation must rule the world. And I am sad to
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  Speaker 1: say that the nation in which we live is the
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  Speaker 1: supreme culprit. And I'm going to continue to say it
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  Speaker 1: to America because I love this country too much to
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  Speaker 1: see the drift that it has taken. God didn't call
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  Speaker 1: America to do what she's doing in the world now.
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  Speaker 1: God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust
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  Speaker 1: war as a war in Vietnam, and we are criminals
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  Speaker 1: in that war. We've committed more war crimes are most
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  Speaker 1: in any nation in the world. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: continue to say it, and we won't stop it the
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  Speaker 1: course of our pride. And I aracan sas the nation.
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  Speaker 1: But God has a way of even putting nations in
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  Speaker 1: that place. The God that I worship has a way
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  Speaker 1: of saying, don't play with me. He has a way
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  Speaker 1: of saying. Is the God of the Old Testament used
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  Speaker 1: to say the Hebrews don't play with measure, don't play
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  Speaker 1: with Smith Babylon. Be still and know that I'm God.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't stop your reckless course, I'll rise up
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  Speaker 1: and break the backbone of your power. That can happen
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  Speaker 1: to America every nine Then I go back and read
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  Speaker 1: Gibbons Decline and fall of the Roman Empire. When I
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  Speaker 1: come and look at America, I'll say to myself, the
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  Speaker 1: parallels are frightening. We'll be right back. Y'all're listening, Welcome
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  Speaker 1: back to the ride. We will continue with more of
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  Speaker 1: doctor Kings. The drum major instinct speech. Nobody is unhappy
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  Speaker 1: when they are praised, even if they know they don't
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  Speaker 1: deserve it, and even if they don't believe it. The
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  Speaker 1: only unhappy people about praise is when that praise is
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  Speaker 1: going too much towards somebody else. But everybody likes to
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  Speaker 1: be praised because of this real drum major instinct. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know that a lot of the race problem grows
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  Speaker 1: out of the drum major instinct, a need that some
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  Speaker 1: people have to feel superior a need that some people
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  Speaker 1: have to feel that they are first, and to feel
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  Speaker 1: that their white skin ordain them to be first. And
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  Speaker 1: they have said over and over the game in ways
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  Speaker 1: that we see with our own eyes. In fact, not
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  Speaker 1: too long ago, a man down in Mississippis said that
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  Speaker 1: God was a child a member of the white citizens Council.
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  Speaker 1: And so God being the child a member means that
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  Speaker 1: everybody who's in that has us a kind of divinity,
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  Speaker 1: a kind of superiority. And think of what has happened
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  Speaker 1: in historism as a result, disperverted use of the drum
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  Speaker 1: major instincts led to the most tragic prejudice, the most
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: tragic expressions of man's inhumanity to man. I mean, not
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: only does this thing go into the racial struggle, goes
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: into the struggle between nations. And I would submit to
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: you this morning that what is wrong in the world
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: today is that the nations of the world are engaged
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: in a bitter, colossal contest for supremacy, and some doesn't
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: having to stop this trend. I'm sorely afred that we
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: won't be here to talk about Jesus Christ and about
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: God and about brotherhood too many more years somebody done
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: bringing into this suicidal thrust that we see in the
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: world today. None of us are gonna be around because
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: somebody is gonna make the mistake through our senseless blunderings,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: of dropping a nuclear bomb somewhere, and then another one
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: is gonna drop. And don't let anybody fool you. This
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: can happen within a matter of seconds. They have twenty
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: megaton bombs in Russia right now that can destroy US
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: city as big as New York in three seconds, with
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: everybody wiped away in every building. And we can do
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: the same thing to Russian China. But this is why
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: we are drifted, and we are drifting now because nations
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: are caught up with the German major instinct. I must
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: be first, I must be supreme, our a nation must
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: rule the world. And I am sad to say that
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the nation in which we live is the supreme culprit.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to continue to say it to America
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: because I love this country too much to see the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: drift that it has taken. God didn't call America to
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: do what she's doing in the world now. God didn't
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war as
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: a war in Vietnam, and we are criminals in that war.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: We have committed more war crimes almost than any nation
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: in the world. And I'm going to continue to say it,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: and we won't stop it the course of our pride
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: and I arragan sass the nation. But God has a
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: way of even putting nations in that place. The God
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: that I worship has a way of saying, don't play
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: with me. He has a way of saying. Is the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: God of the Old Testament used to say the Hebrews
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: don't play with me? Isram, don't play with Smith Babylon.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Be still and know that I'm God. If you don't
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: stuck your reckless course, I'll rise up and break the
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: backbone of your power. That can happen to America. Every
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: nine then I go back and read Gibbons Decline and
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: fall of the Roman Empire. And when I come and
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: look at America, I say to myself the parallels of frightening.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: We have perverted the drum major instinct. Every nine and
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: then I guess we all think realistically, yes, about that
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: day when we will be victimized with what is life's
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: final common denominator. That's something we call death. We all
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: think about it, and nevernine. Then I think about my
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: own death, and I think about my own funeral, and
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I don't think of it in a morbid sense ever.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Nine Then I asked myself, what is it that I
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: would want say? And I leave the word to you
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: this morning, if any of you are around when I
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: have to meet my day, I don't want a long funeral.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: And if you get somebody here to deliver the unite,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: you tell him not to talk to none every nine
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: and I wonder what I want him to say. Tell
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: him not to mention that I have a Nobel Peace Prize.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: That isn't important. Tell him not to mention that I
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: have three or four hundred other awards that's not important.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Tell him not to mention where I went to school.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I like somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: King Junior tried to give his life serving of us.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I'd like for somebody to say that day that Martein
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Luther King Junior tried to love somebody. I want you
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: to say that day that I tried to be right
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: on the wall question. I want you to be able
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: to say that day that I did try to feed
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the hungry I want you to be able to say
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: that day that I did try in my life to
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: call those who were naked. I want you to say
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: on him that day that I did try in my
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: life to visit those who were in prison. I want
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: you to say that I try to love and serve humanity. Yes,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: if you want to say that I was a drum major,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: say that I was a drum major for justice, Say
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: that I was a drum major for peace. I was
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: shall of things will nothing matter. I won't have any
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: money to leave behind, I won't have the fine and
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: want to leave I committed life behind. And that's all
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I want to say. If I can help somebody as
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: world a song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: then my living will not be in vain. If I
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: can do my duty as a Christian arc, If I
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: can bring salvation to a war wants to rot. If
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I can spread the message as the Master talked, then
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: my living we'll not be in vain. Yes, Jesus, I
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: want to be on your right or your left side,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: not for a selfish reason. I want to be on
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: your right or your left side, not in times of
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: some political kingdom or ambition. And I just want to
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: be there in love and injustice. And I attend to
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Nation on this King Holiday. I want to
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: see y'all giving back to day. Okay, in the words
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: of doctor King, what are you doing for others? So
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: just go to any of my social media sites, my
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Facebook page, Instagram or tweet me pictures. Are you doing
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: community service helping others? Please don't just make this a
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: day off, make it a day on. Okay, We'll be
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: right back, y'all. You're listening to Dave Harvey Morning Show,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Happy King's Day. We are here in twenty nineteen King
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Holiday talking about racist him. As you know, our President
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump has denied being a racist, but the first
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: half of Trump's presidency has been marked by racial controversy.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: The president has reportedly labeled African Americans nations as blank
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: hold blank hold countries. In August twenty seventeen, Trump took
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: heat for appearing to defend white nationalists after he said
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: that there were very fine people on both sides we
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: all remember that that was following the deadly protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: And this is the type of thing that activists, religious leaders,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: and scholars say that puts Trump's presidency in direct conflict
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: with the legacy of doctor King, who was assassinated April fourth,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight while trying to make America a more
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: inclusive society. That I don't think that Donald Trump is
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: aware of the efforts and greatness of Martin Luther King.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I don't expect him to say anything of any relevant
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: at all, and if he does, he'll have to read it.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: M Yeah, because he certainly doesn't embody anything anything that
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: this man was about. You know, this is the same
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: dude that said Frederick Douglas has done some great things.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: You know, he actually thought Frederick Douglas was still alive. Yes,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I remember that. Yeah, remember this dude right here, and
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: they're doing great work. Yeah, this dude, I don't expect
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: anything from him. Every president has mentioned it. If he
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: mentioned something, he's gonna have to read it and it
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: will look like he's reading. Oh, for sure. His voice
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: tone is different everything. There's almost no inflections in his voice.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: It's quite different. When he's reading. Yeah, but when he's
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: off script, he's loud and then try to say right.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: But when he tries to read the teleprompt he tries
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: to be calm about it, but it's not genuine. He's
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: just reading. He's just reading words. Believe what he's saying.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: They're just words coming out of his mouth. Yeah, he's
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: just not So, you know, we those of us who
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: understand the legacy and what Marl Luther King, don't expect
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: anything from the White House no better than you've been getting.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Don't get upset. You ain't gotta be mad about it.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: If he says anything, it will be read and he
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: will not mean it, and he won't look like it
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: because he embodies none of his principles, none of them.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: So don't please, don't even get mad today. Let's just
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: go home, celebrate the brother, get on with it. It's
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: just I guess you know, after the Civil rights movement,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: this rachel racial divide that we have in the country
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: right now, this is where we are. Ye in our leader,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: the president is who's supposed to bring people together. He's
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: president for all people, the entire nation. Let me explain
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: something to you. Even this this government shutdown. Uh, it was.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: It's all done so he can posture himself up to
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: feel this commitment to a minimum of Americans, a very,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: very minimum of Americans. Because I heard very clearly today
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: some people who don't have any money, who were in
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: line at a food bank, who because their federal employees
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: say it's not fair to hold me hostage for a
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: wall that I don't even know nothing about. That true, true,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what's happening. And the President said he's
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: not going to back down, and he's using them as
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: a as a ploy, and he don't care how long
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: these people hurt. This is his shutdown. He asked for it,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: he said he'd do it, he did it, and now
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: he's hurting these people and he's gonna ride it out.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Oh this is the worst. This is more important than
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: our our Americans, our government workers putting food on their table,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: paying their rent, paying their mortgage, their car notes, their
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: children's tuition. How is that more important than that? I
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: don't get. I don't understand. He does not know pain.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: He has never hurt before. Yes, Yeah, a good point, Tommy,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: because he doesn't know what it's like because he's never
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: had to go through it. He hasn't miss a meal.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: But you're supposed to be exactly He's not select. He
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: is simply the president for his base. He says nothing
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: for doctor he says nothing for black people, he says
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: nothing for whites who are not in his base. He
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: says nothing on behalf of religious freedoms. All he does
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: is negative policies. All of his policies are negative. He
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: wants to tout this fab this tax bill that he
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: passed that ain't worth Lotti doll when you get through
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: looking at has created a whole lot more debt for
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the country, which is the one thing Republicans are always
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: beating the Democrats up about. But here he goes again.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: And so this guy is not he's not man. He's easy,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: and he's tried to take away our healthcare, you know
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: from man. This dude is just dude. He don't even
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: know what Obamacare is. He just wants to end it
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: because Obama did it. How many times do you know
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: if this is the first president who's used the former
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: president as an example more times everything that Obama did thistion.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Obama said this, and Obama did this, and we're gonna
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: replace and repeal Obamacare because you don't know what Obamacare does,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: or he doesn't understand people that have preconditions, you know,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: great pre existing conditions. I mean, you know, if you
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: asked him to explain Obamacare, he couldn't do it. I
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: promise you he can. He ain't read upon it just
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: man ain't read nothing. I say, it doesn't read. Yeah,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: he reached social media? Does it? And Twitter reached Twitter?
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: I don't make none of that. I just hope you
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: don't get four more years. And you know, I just
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: and I just hate the people that just not hate them,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: but just hate the fact that they let it go.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Other Republicans let it go. No one calls him on
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: his mistakes or you know, his missteps. You know, yeah,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: this could easily be fixed. It could be fixed. We'll
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: be back with more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: at twenty after right after this. You're listening to show.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Today is King Holiday and we're celebrating. Do you guys
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: remember you guys remember when President Obama gave his farewell
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: speech to the nation. It was an emotional speech that
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: sought to comfort the country because a lot of Americans
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: were on edge with the election of Donald Trump. You guys,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: remember that right, And here we are today, government shut down, racism, hatred. Boy,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: do we miss the President Obama? Take a listen. Change
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: only happens when ordinary people get involved, and they get engaged,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: and they come together to demand it. After eight years
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: as your president, I still believe that. And it's not
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: just my belief. It's the beating heart of our American idea,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: our bold experiment in self government. It's the conviction that
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: we are all created evil, endowed by our creator with
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: of happens. It's the insistence that these rights, while self evident,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: have never been self executing, that we the people, through
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: the instrument of our democracy, can form a more perfect union.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: What a radical idea. The great gift that our founders
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: gave to us, the freedom to chase our individual dreams
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: through our sweat and toil and imagination, and the imperative
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: to strive together as well to achieve a common good,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: a greater good. For two hundred and forty years, our
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: nation's call to citizenship has given work and purpose to
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: each new generation. That's what led patriots to choose Republic
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: over tyranny, Pioneers to trek West, slaves to brave, that
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: makeshift railroad to freedom. It's what pulled immigrants and refugees
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: across oceans than the Rio Grand. It's what pushed women
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: to reach for the ballot. It's what power workers to organize.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: That's why Gis gave their lives, that Omaha Beach, Anywagima
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: a rock in Afghanistan, and why men and women from
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Selma to Stonewall were prepared to give theirs as well.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: So that's what we mean when we say America's exceptional,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: not that our nation has been flawless from the start,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: but that we have shown the capacity to change and
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: make life better for those who follow. Yes, our progress
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: has been uneven. The work of democracy has always been hard.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: It's always been contentious. Sometimes it's been bloody. For every
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: two steps forward, it often feels we take one step back.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: But the long sweep of America has been defined by
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: forward motion, a constant widening of our founding creed to
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: embrace all and not just some. We weaken those ties
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: when we define some of us as more American than others,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: when we write off the whole system as inevitably corruptive,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: and when we sit back and blame the leaders we
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: elect without examining our own role in electing them. When
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: we come back from the break at thirty two after,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the racial divide in this country.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, Steve,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: we've talked about racism a lot lately, White people calling
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: the cops on black people who are just going about
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: their everyday lives. Like remember when the young lady was
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: sleeping in the dorm area, when some people were having
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: a barbecue in the park, selling bottled water, leaving an Airbnb,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: just sitting in Starbucks or eat at the waffle house.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: What is going on in this country? Are you asking me? Yes,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I'm oh, it's it's it's it's leadership. People now think
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: it's a okay to voice any form because they're seeing
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: it done from the top and nothing's happening to him.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: So hey, he's right, and this is how we feel,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: and we can say it and it just gets carried
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: out different ways. The president don't have to say all that. Man,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: did you see the video of this man punching this
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: black girl in the yea? Yeah, they were outside doing
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: something and there was just an argument ensued and this
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: black girl got up and then she big, big white
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: dude pushed her. She pushed her, and the girl ran
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: back at him, didn't touch him, just was pointing the hand,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: got ready to point of her finger in her face.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: He left cross this girl and knocked her out. Kidding me. Now,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: he got arrested. Oh, he got arrested. But man, but
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: you know, it really ticks me. This woman. The black
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: dudes that be standing around watching myself, Pardner, hold up,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: if you hit this little girl, you hit any girl,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: black or white in the jaw, and you a man,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: and I'm standing there, I'm in your ass, dog. I
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: promise you that. I promise you. I just am. Yeah,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not letting it go sad state of affairs, sad
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: you know, racial profile, and that's where we're at. White
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: people calling the cops on people selling water and dudes. Bobby,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, man, you can't do nothing. They they're wrong.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Little the little dude that she claimed felt her behind
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: in the store, all of that stuff back and really
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: she never apologized to this little black kid nothing. He
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: just standing in their crime. I didn't do that to
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: you a little kid though it was a little kid.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: How about living building. I haven't gotten over them cutting
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: this wrestler, this kid's brains out of this I saw
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: that two times. That was crazy. Wow, I've never seen
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: that in my life. You're gonna cut a kid's hair
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: at up? You know how people wear the hair now? Man, Man,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: it gave him an advantage, That's that's what the said.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: It gave him an advantage and wrestling and wrestling, wrestling
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: your hair whatsoever? Man, No, there's no advantage to having
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: hair now unless y'all punching in the head and you
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: calling it a cushion. Yeah, you got nothing, man, I
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: just said, Man, that's crazy. These people, man, wow, are
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: living in the same building. Yeah. Oh yeah, the copy
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: the cop who shot the in Dallas. Yeah, remember that
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: killed him. Come on, man, you can't be at home,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: can't be at home in your own self house nothing.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah that man, this is making me man. Yeah girl. Yeah,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: But like you said, Steven starts at the top. And
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: I really think that this president has created an atmosphere
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: that Scott has taken steps backwards. Uh, it's just brought
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: it out. It's always been there, you know what I mean.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: But at least people try to mask it. Uh, He's
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: made it okay to say it out loud, and I
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: have to just be honest, I really do. It stems
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: from the top. It's just making people think that they
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: have the ability to say this. But like the little
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: brother had that T shirt on. My favorite T shirt says,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: don't let your present dick get your ass will and
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: we mean that. Yeah, be real with your Pardner. Yeah,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: all right, We'll be back with more of the Steve
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Harvey Morning Show on this Martin Luther King Holiday right
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: after this you're listening to show coming up at the
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: top of the hour, We're going to play excerpts from
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: doctor King's speech. I've been to the mountaintop, but right
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: right now, life's most persistent and urgent question is what
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: are you doing for others? These are the words of
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Martin Luther King, Junior, as we celebrate his life his
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: legacy on Martin Luther King Junior Day. Steve, Now, your
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: your foundation is very important to you, to you and
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: your wife, fostering children through excellence. And why is mentoring
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: so important to you? Steve? Well, you know it really
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: hit me hard when my dad died. You know, when
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: my father died. I was at the funeral. I was
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: looking at his body and I was just saying, Man,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: if it wasn't for that dude right there, Man, there's
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: no way I'd be here today without he shaped me.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: And so on the plane ride home, I said, man,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: what do dudes do? They ain't got no fun. How
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: did they get through this? Man? This this is crazy?
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: How did they get through this? And I couldn't figure
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: it out. I said, this gotta be And how these
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: women raising these boys without know daddy's I said, man,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: that's a huge problem. It's a lack of male role
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: models in the world today. And that's how this Steve
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Harvey Foundation got started. I said, man, I got the
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: mental men. And I gotta give Rashan McDonald a piece
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: of credit because he was sitting there. He said, man,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: you got that ranch, man, why don't you do something
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: with it? And I had bought that wrench, thinking the
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: whole time, since I was homeless, that I was going
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: to accumulate all this land, so no matter what happened
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: in my life, I'd always have a piece of land
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: I could go to a live on you know. In
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: spite of that was my whole purpose. Little did I know,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: God really wanted me to buy that man, buy that
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: land to change young boys lives. And so that's what
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: I did. And that was the birth of it. Well,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: I mean and and and it's thrived. You know, you've
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: turned out some great, great young men. Man. I got
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: some bad boys that came through them. Man, some some dudes. Man,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: that's engineers, police officers, soldiers, stories. It's like that's just
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: what they needed, you know, they just need that. Man.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: It's I've got some really great citizen man, dudes graduating
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: from college. Man who was getting put out of school.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: I've got man. And Marjorie's girls program got girls. I'm
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: sitting down there, I'm I'm talking to this girl. And
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: she said, mister Harvy, you don't remember me. You spoke
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: at your wife's mentoring camp and you gave this great
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: speech that change my life. I said, really wasn't even
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: And she worked at Disney. She's ahead of a department
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: down in Disney. Wow. Wow, I said, Wow, Hey, Steve,
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: can you talk to everybody about how you can be
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: a mentor. You don't have to be famous? And you know,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's really the biggest part, the best mentors
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: are not famous people. I'm not the best mentor because
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: I'm so busy. It's people that's got boots on the
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: ground that make the absolute best mentors. The teachers is
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: coaches that see hundreds of boys a year. They change
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: a way more lize than me. Yeah, you know, you
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: got people in programs, people that run centers, boys and
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: girls clubs. You got counselors, man, that's mentors that see
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: thousands of kids come through there and change their lives. Man,
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: you got teachers. That's mentors that change people's lives. You
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: got people listen, Scout leader programs and stuff that's changing
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: people's lives. No matter who you are, man, no matter
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: how much money you make or how famous you are,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: you can stop and take the time to teach a
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: boy how to be a man or show a girl
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: how to be a real woman because they want to know,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: because if no one's told them, and everybody would like
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: to have a better way. Nobody wants to go to
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: prison right now. If you really gave these cats a
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: chance to make a good, clean living and have a
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: chance that a family and stuff, most young men would
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: take it. Ye would, Most young men really would? Man? Wow, man,
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: and you think I could do that, mister Harvey. Now
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: many times I've heard that, mister Harvey, you really think
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: I could be that? I mean, you know, and look,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: I ain't trying to talk everybody into college because everybody
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: can't go to college. Everybody's not college material, you know.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: And some people give war how many if you don't
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: have a college program, I can't donate my man, listen
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: to men. Everybody ain't going to college. The majority of
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Americans don't go to college. We're trying to turn out
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: good productive men this whole dude, Man, we're talking about college. Man.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: He didn't want nothing else. You know. What he wanted
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: to do. He wanted to work in heating and as
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: because when his father died when he was six, that's
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: what he remember. He want a truck and he want
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: to work in heating and are like his father who
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: had passed when he was six. He was fourteen. Wow,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: he said, mister harg I don't want to go to college.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: I said, man, college would be so great. I said,
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: what do you want to do? Said? I want to
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: be in heating and that. I said, man, why would
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: you want to be in eating? And that? He said,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: that's what my daddy did. I said, your father isn't
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: heating and there he said, my father died when I
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: was six, but he should put me in his van.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: And I used to ride with him sometime. And I
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: want to be that coach. That's what my daddy was. Okay,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: guess what. I gotta support that. Yeah, yeah, I gotta
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: support that man. My dream of him going to college,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: that ain't for him, right, So I got to support that.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: And it's okay. Yeah, And you know you mentioned them
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: a couple of times, Steve, shout out to teachers. You know,
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about the teachers out here in LA who
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: are still unstrike, trying to get you know, higher wages,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: trying to get smaller classrooms, trying to get more nurses.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: You know, just shout out to them because they're yeah,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: they're they're on the picket lines right now, you know. Yeah,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know they out there doing the teachers. Man.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: It's just I hate to see it because you know,
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: they if anybody deserves more money, yeah, but they they're
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: fighting for stuff for the kids. Yeah, You're they're fighting
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: for less crowded classrooms so people can learn more. You know,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: they're looking for qualified books and things like that. They're
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: looking for so many things like that. You know, yeah,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: that's right. It ain't just money, you know, that's what's crazy, man. Yeah,
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: so yep, yep. Well, well I want to tell everybody
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: too to go to Harvey Foundation dot com. Steve, you
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: have a wonderful program, you and your wife, and there's
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: a video on there, a twenty eighteen video of all
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: the things that you're foundation, the programs and all the
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: things that you guys do and how you serve the
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: community and you're serving this country and that's what we're
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: talking about today on King Holiday, you know, a day
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: of service. And there is so much good information on there.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: So if you're someone that's working for a company and
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: you're listening and you want to get involved with a
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: foundation and you want to give back and affect people
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: in your area, go to Harvey Foundation dot com if
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: you just want to volunteer and make a difference. So
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: if you want to make a donation, this is a
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: really really great program. I mean college prep. I mean,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: y'all have everything on this website. I mean y'all took
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: kids to see the Black Panther movie screen in earlier
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: last year. I mean, just so many different programs than
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: you guys are a blessing to so many kids, young folks. Yes,
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: it's been a great thing. You know. We're just gonna
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: keep going. Thank you very much to roll out. Happy
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: King Day everyone. We'll be back right after this. I
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: tend to Steve Harvey Nation. On this King Holiday, I
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: want to see y'all giving back to day. Okay, in
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: the words of doctor King, what are you doing for others?
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: So just go to any of my social media sites
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: on Facebook, page, Instagram, or tweet me pictures. Are you
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: doing community service helping others? Please don't just make this
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: a day off, make it a day on. Okay, you're
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: listening to show. Doctor Martin Luther King Junior once said
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: that life's most persistent and urgent question is what are
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: you doing for others? Come together, everybody and serve your communities.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Coming up, we got some excerpts from doctor Kings. I've
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: been to the mountaintop speech. Let us rise up tonight
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: with a greater readiness in these powerful days, these days
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: of challenge to make America what it ought to be.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: We have an opportunity to make America a better nation
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: and I want to thank God once more for allowing
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: me to be here with you. You know, several years
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: ago I was in New York City autographing the first
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: book that I had written. And while sitting the autographing books,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: the minute black woman came up. The only question I
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: heard from all was you marderin Luther King. And I
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: was looking down writing and I said yes. The next
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: minute I felt something beating on my chest. Before I
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: knew it, I had been stabbed by this deminted woman.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: I was rushed to Hullum Hospital. It was a dog
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon. That blade had gone through and the X
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: rays revealed that the tip of the blade was on
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: the edge of my air order, the main uttering and
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: once uchs puncture, you drowned in your own blood. That's
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: the end of you. Yes, it came out in the
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: New York Times the next morning that if I had
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: merely sneezed, I would have died. Well. About four days later,
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: they allowed me after the operation, after my chest had
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: been opened and the blade had been taken out, to
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: move around in the wheelchair and the hospital they allowed
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: me to read some of the mail that came in
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: and from all over the States and the world. Kind
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: letters came in. I read a few, but one of
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: them I will never forget. I had received one from
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: the President and the Vice President. I've forgotten what those
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: telegrams said. I'd received a visit and a letter from
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: the Governor of New York, but I've forgotten what that
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: letter say it. But that was another letter. It came
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: from a little girl, a young girl who was a
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: student at the White Plains High School. And I looked
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: at that letter. I'll never forget. It said, simply, dear
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: Doctor King, I am a ninth grade student at the
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: White Plains High School. She said. While it should not matter,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: I would like to mention that I'm a white girl.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: I read in the paper of your misfortune and of
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: your suffering, and I read that if you had sneezed,
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: you would have died. I'm simply writing you to say
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: that I'm so happy that you didn't sneeze, and i'd
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: want to say to night. I want to say tonight
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: that I too, am happy that I didn't sneeze, because
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: if I had sneeze, I wouldn't have been around here.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty, when students all over the South started
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: sitting in at lunchtowns, and I knew that as they
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: was sitting in, they were really standing up for the
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: best in the American dream and taken the whole nation
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: back to those great weals of democracy which were dug
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: deep by the founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: and the Constitution. If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: been around hid in nineteen six to one when we
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: decided to take a ride for freedom and end its
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: segregation in it to state travel. If I had sneezed,
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been around here in nineteen sixty two
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: when Negroes and all been at Georgia decided to straighten
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: that box up. And when all the men and women
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: straighten that box up, they're going somewhere because a man
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: had roger back unless it is bent. If I had sneeze,
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been here. In nineteen
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: six to three, the black people of Birmingham, Alabama aroused
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: the conscience of this nation and brought into being the
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: Civil Rights Bill. If I had sneeze, I wouldn't have
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: had a chance. Later that year, in August to try
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: to tell America about a dream that I had had.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: If I had sneeze, I wouldn't have been down in Selma,
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: Alabama to see the Gretain movement there. If I had sneeze,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been in Memphis to see our community
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: rally around those brothers and sisters who are suffering. I'm
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: so happy that I didn't sleeve. And they were telling
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: me now it doesn't matter now, it really doesn't matter
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: what happens now. I left Atlanta this morning and as
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: we got started on the plane that was six of us,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: the pilot said over the public address system, we are
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: sorry for the delay, but we have doctor Mark Luther
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: King on the plane and to be sure that all
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: of the bags were checked and to be sure that
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: nothing would be wrong on the plane. We had to
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: check out everything carefully and we've had the plane protected
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: and god it all night. And then I got into
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: Memphis and some began to say the threats I talk
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: about the threats that were out, What would happen to
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: me from some of our sick white brothers. Well, I
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: days ahead, but it really doesn't matter. With me now
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: because I've been to the mountain talk. I don't mind.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: Like anybody, I would like to live a long life.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: Longevity has its place, but I'm not concerned about that, naw.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: I just want to do God's will, and He's allowed
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: me to go up to the mountain, and I've looked
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: over and I've seen the Promised Land. I may not
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: get that with you, when I want you to know
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: tonight that we as a people, we'll get to the
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: Promised Land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not wearing about anything.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not feeling in a man mine eyes have seen
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: the glory all the coming of the Lord. You're listening
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: to show, all right, I'm this King holiday guys. According
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: to the Chicago Tribune, the Republicans have a racism problem,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: and it's not just Republican Steve Steve King of Iowa.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: If you recall, in an interview with The New York Times,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: Republican Steam King reportedly wondered out loud, white nationalists, white supremacists,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: western civilization. How did that language become offensive? It was
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: just the latest in a long history of his racist comments.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: Every day, every day is something I know I'm tired
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: of talking to these stupid ass people. I'm sick of it, man,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: I'm sick of hearing the ignorance that comes out of
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: these people's mouths. That's in all these elected positions. If
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: you're that damn stupid and you're in an electric position,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: then it should cost you your job. Yeah, because you
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: can't sit up in front of people and expects that
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: to have to look at you every damn week. And
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: you're sitting up here wondering why it's white suprema in
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: white national When did that become bad language? When they
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: start doing bad stuff. Man, they've been wrong since they
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: got here. This ain't news, but it ain't nothing wrong
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: happening to you because you think you supreme, right, you
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: think you're superior, so you don't have a problem with it.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: But you don't never have a problem to this is
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: happening to you. Getting back to Steve King for a moment,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: didn't he say these things never come up in his mind.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: He doesn't know how they came out of his mouth. Yeah?
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: How you blurt that out? Yeah, sir, do you know
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: how many times I've said that? Yeah? Yeah, we do
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: get your ass out. Yeah. See, somebody say right right there, Steve,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: did you just say get your ass out? And then
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: I go what he came in my mind? Yeah, I
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: don't know what a hell? Yeah? Yeah, you don't know
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: why I was saying yeah me uh. The article also
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: stated that it's the GOP that it's passing racist statewide
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: voter identification laws in an attempt to keep African Americans
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: away from the polls. The GOP voted to give billions
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: of dollars in tax breaks to the wealthy while proposing
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: drastic cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security. It's the GOP
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: that has attempted to take sole credit for reducing the
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: unemployment rate for African Americans, when African Americans full no,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: they know full well that the downward trend began under
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: President Barak who's saying Obama, thank you, Yes, Now, let's
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: stop all this foolishness. Now, don't think we don't know
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: the truth. If you're gonna tell it, Well, that's the
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: thing about the GOP and the Republicans, what kind of
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: party are you now? Because I when you have someone
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: like Steve King say these things, then it's like and
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: then you have the president you're trying to say you
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: don't stand for this, but you stand for that. But
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: you have people in your party and they say all
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: these type of things. Party of Trump doesn't stand for anything.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: That's what I mean. They stand for whatever keeps them
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: in power, in position, and in money. That's what they
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: stand for. And they prove it over and over again.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: But I got news for you. They've always been that one.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: But you know what, there's always been something because all
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: Republicans ain't bad people. I know. I want you to
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: understand that John McCain man and actually stood up and
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: said stuff. That dude out in Arizona, that other one,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: that younger, younger guy, he's pretty smart. He says some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: There's some people out there man that we'll just go okay,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, mane, what what did you say? And
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: we'll do the right thing. But the way it's going now,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: man's ugly. And we need we need for Republicans and
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: Democrats to be able to work together. That's what's missing
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: as well. Surely we can stop that ideal. Well, I
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: mean they're not sense Barack. Yeah, well it happened in
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: the past. It happened. I mean was going across you
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: know the room. They stopped that with Obama. Yeah, they did.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: I know they did. They wouldn't let him reach across
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: the aisle accomplish a damn thing. They were so angry
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: with his win. Yeah, and they were angry on a
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: racial level. Yeah, and that is the truth, period. Stop
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: saying it ain't so, because that's exactly what happened, upset
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: on a racial level, wasn't it. Mitch McConnell who said
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: he meant, let's make him a one term president or something, Yes, yeah,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, yes, yeah, and you didn't and you couldn't. Well,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. You know, we need to stay
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: aware and a stude and everything and registered and ready
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: because if we don't, Donald Trump will get another term
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: in the White House. Okay, don't think that's not the
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: plan for him to be a two term president. It
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: is very well the plane, but he's got some legal
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: things that's coming up. He's trying to distract with this wall.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: You mean the Muller investigation. Yeah, it's too many people
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: around him going to jail. Flynn could go, Monifer could go,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: Cohen can go. These are people that are real close
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: to him, his lawyer, his campaign manager, and Flynn. I'm
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: come home man, and when can you ever remember an
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: American president saying I do not work for Russia. I know. Wait,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: let me ask you ask you that question. How many
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: times in your lifetime have you come home and the
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: president was in the news every single day about something?
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: Every single day the president is in something, but a
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: lot of times because of a remark he's made. Yeah,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: tweet or a tweet man like you said, stay stay woke. Yeah,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: when you tweet something dumb, but your explanation of the
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: tweet is dumberumber. Look, man, you ain't giving us nut
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: to work with you. Your fix the tweet is worse. Yeah,
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: I never said that. I never said that. We're celebrating
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: the life and the la to be ashamed of yourself
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: for asking me that. Well, I'm not of doctor on
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: this King holiday, And we'll be right back. You're listening.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: Coming up, We're gonna play some excerpts from doctor King's
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: I Have a Dream speech. I am happy to john
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  Speaker 1: with you today. And what will go down in history
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  Speaker 1: as the greatest demonstration for freedom the history of our nation.
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  Speaker 1: Five score years ago, a great American in whose symbolic
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous
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  Speaker 1: decree came as a great beacon light of hope to
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the
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  Speaker 1: flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous day
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  Speaker 1: break to end the long night of their captivity. But
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  Speaker 1: one hundred years later, the Negro steal is not free.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the
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  Speaker 1: changeans of discrimination. One hundred years later, the negro lives
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: on a lonely island of property in the midst of
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: the negro is still languished in the corners of American
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: society and finds himself in exile in his own land.
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  Speaker 1: So we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
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  Speaker 1: In a sense, we've come to our nation's capital to
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  Speaker 1: cash a check. When the architects of our Republic wrote
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  Speaker 1: the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,
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  Speaker 1: they were signing a promise or in note, to whichever
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  Speaker 1: the American was to fall air. This note was a
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  Speaker 1: promise at all men, yes, black men, as well as
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  Speaker 1: white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty,
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  Speaker 1: and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that
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  Speaker 1: America has defaulted on this promisory note in so far
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring
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  Speaker 1: this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a
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  Speaker 1: bad check, a check which has come back mark insufficient
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  Speaker 1: fund But we refuse to believe that the bank of
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: justice is bankrupt. He refused to believe that that are
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  Speaker 1: insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: So we've come to cash this check, a check that
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  Speaker 1: will give us a pun demand the riches of freedom
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: and the security of justice. We have also come to
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  Speaker 1: this hell of spot to remind a miracle of the
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  Speaker 1: fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: in the luxury of cooling off, or to take the
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  Speaker 1: tranquilizing joug of gradualism. Now is the time to make
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  Speaker 1: real the promises of democracy. Now is the time arise
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  Speaker 1: from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the
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  Speaker 1: sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time quick
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  Speaker 1: sends of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
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  Speaker 1: Now is the time they've got the reality For all
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  Speaker 1: of God's tu It would be fatal for the nation
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: of the Negroes. Legitimate discontent will not pass until that
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: will now be content will have a rude awakening. If
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: the nation returns to business as usual, that will be
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro has
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds a revolt will continue
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: day of justice emerges. But that is something that I
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  Speaker 1: must say to my people who stand on the warm
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  Speaker 1: threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the
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  Speaker 1: process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: guilty of wrong for deeds. Let us not seek to
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  Speaker 1: satisfy our first for freedom by drinking from the cup
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: of bitterness and treat We must forever conduct our struggle
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  Speaker 1: on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must
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  Speaker 1: not allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence.
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  Speaker 1: Again and again. We must rise to the majestic heights
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  Speaker 1: of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new
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  Speaker 1: militant said which has engulfed the Negro community, must not
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: lead us to a distrust of all white people. For
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: many of our white brothers, as evidenced by the presence
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: here today, have come to realize that that destiny is
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: part of a artist Steve Harvey Nation. On this King Holiday,
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: I want to see y'all giving back to day. Okay,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: in the words of doctor King, what are you doing
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: for others? So just go to any of my social
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: media sites for Facebook, page, Instagram, or tweet me pictures.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: Are you doing community service helping others? Please don't just
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: make this a day off, make it a day on. Okay,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: when we come back, we got more, Doctor Kings. I
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: have a dream speech. You're listening show right now. Ask
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: promise we're gonna play some of Doctor Kings. I have
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: a dream speech which he delivered on the steps of
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: the Lincoln Memorial back in nineteen sixty three, to realize
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: that that freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: cannot walk alone, and as we walk, we must make
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  Speaker 1: the plans that we shall always march ahead. We cannot
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: turn back. Now are those who are asking the devotees
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: of civil rights, when will you be atisfied? We can
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: never be satisfied as long as the negro as the
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: fifth victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: can never be satisfied. As long as our bodies, heavy
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: mobilities from a smaller get off to a larger one.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: We can never be satisfied. As long as our children
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: are stripped of our selfhood and robbed of that dignating
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: for rights on there, we cannot be satisfied. As long
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: as a negro in Mississippi cannot vote, and the negro
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: in New York polies he has nothing for which to vote. No, No,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied
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  Speaker 1: until justice rolled down like waters and righteousness like a
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  Speaker 1: mighty street. I am not unmindful that some of you
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: have come here out of great trials and tribulation. Some
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: of you have come fresh from narrow jail sales. Some
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: of you have come from areas where you're pressed for freedom,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: by the winds of police brutality. You have been the
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: that on earned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: Go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana. Go back to
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: the slums and ghettos of our northern cities. Knowing that
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: not while in the valley of despair. I say to
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: you today, my friend, so even though we face the
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: difficulties up to day and tomorrow, I still have a dream.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dreams.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: I have a dream. But one day this nation will
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: rise up, live up the true meaning of its creed.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: We hold these twos to be self evident, that all
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  Speaker 1: men are created, dream that one day on the Red
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  Speaker 1: Hills of Georgia, sons of farmer slaves, and the sons
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: of farmer slave on it will be able to sit
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: heat of oppression, will be transformed into any waces of
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: freedom and justice. I have a dream a little children
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  Speaker 1: will one day live in a nation where they will
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: not be judged by the color of their skin, but
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama,
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: with its vicious races, with its governor having his lips
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: tripping with the words of interposition and nullifications, one day,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: right now in Alabama, little black bars and black girls
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  Speaker 1: will be able to join hands with little white bars
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  Speaker 1: and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a
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  Speaker 1: dream today. I have a dream that one day every
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: valet shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: made low, the rough places will be made plain, and
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: the crooked places will be made straight. And the gore
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: see it. Together. This is our hope. This is a
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  Speaker 1: piece that I go back to the software. With this faith,
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  Speaker 1: we will be able to hear out of the mountain
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: of despair a stone apport. With this fee, we will
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this fee, we
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  Speaker 1: will be able to work together, to pray together, to
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: for freedom, together, knowing that we will be free. One day.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: This will be the day when all of God's children
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: be able to sing with new meaning. My country tears
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: at the sweet land of liberty of bee our sings,
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: From every mountain side, Let freedom ring of Americus. To
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: be a great nation, this must become true. So Let
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: freedom ring from the heightening allegantors of Pennsylvania. Let freedom
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: ring from the snow cap rocks of Colorado. Let freedom
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: ring from the crevacious slopes of California. But not only that,
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: Let freedom ring from stone mountain of Georgia. Let freedom
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  Speaker 1: ring from lookout mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from
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  Speaker 1: every hill and mole hill of Mississippi, from every mountainside.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: Let freedom ring, and windom happens when we allow freedom ring.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: When we letted ring from every village and ever hamlet,
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: from every state and every city, we will be able
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: to speed up that day when all about children, black
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  Speaker 1: men and white men, shows and gentiles protestants, and we'll
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: be able to join the hands and singing the words
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: of the old nick Ros spiritual free and last free,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: and laugh. Thank God, We'll be back. You're listening, all right, Steve.
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  Speaker 1: You know we have to talk openly with our children
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: about race, about ethnicity, about religion and bigotry. Uh have
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: you dealt with that? I mean, I'm sure you have.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: But have I dealt with yeah, with your children? I mean,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: you know, talking to them about it at a young age.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I had a couple of incidents.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: Has happened, you know about race? I try to My
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: kids grew up very very different from me, so da've afforded,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: were afforded a different lifestyle than I had. So none
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: of my kids grew up in the hood My kids
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: have been fortunate enough to live in totally different environments
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: and I grew up in so they've I've always encouraged
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: my kids to accept people for who they were, as
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: long as they accept you for who you are. I'm
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: a realist when I talk to my kids about racism.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: If somebody got a problem with you because of the
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: color of your skin, I said, you're gonna know it,
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: and then you have to deal with it accordingly. You know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody not going All people are not good people. There's
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: just some bad people out there, or when you run
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: into them. You have to have an assurance. You have
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: to have a confidence level, a certain amount of self
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: esteem about yourself. Don't let nobody make you try to
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: feel less than simply because of the color of your skin.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: That's not gonna happen. And I've given them my full
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: permission to address it. I'm probably not the best parent
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: to talk about racism with your kids because I've had
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: to deal with it on some very blatant levels, you know,
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: I've seen it from some really dark angles, man, and
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: so I've just always had my kids in a position
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: where they they deal with it if they if they
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: see it, you know, if they're confronted with it, deal
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: with it. Be courageous about it. Don't put yourself in
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: a life threatening situation about it, but be courageous about it.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: But my kids are open to people, you know, they
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: accept people for who they are. They don't have hang
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: ups when it comes to race. You know, Oh, my
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: son's wife is from it has biracial parents. My son's
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: wife has biracial parents. And you know, we all eat,
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: we all celebrate holidays, and we have a problem with that.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: I'm it's very simple to me. If you cool to me,
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: I'm cool with you. That's it. I don't I don't
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: do good with people who who don't. I don't do
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: good with racism. I just don't. I'm not the best
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: person to talk about it because if you extend it
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: to me. I hate to say this, but I give
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: it back to you four fledge. Yeah, well, okay, I
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: think racism will be with us until the end of time.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: But I hate to hear that, but I do. Probably true. Now.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: The sad thing about it is is because of this presidency,
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: it has racism has reared his ugly head and kind
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: of felt like a little bit better about doing it.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: Seems like and that's a scary place to be. Yes,
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: it is, and we'll be back right after this. On
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: this King Day, I tend to Steve Harvy Nation. On
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: this King Holiday, I want to see y'all giving back
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: to day. Okay, in the words of doctor King, what
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: are you doing for others? So just go to any
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: of my social media sites on Facebook, page, Instagram or
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: tweet me pictures. Are you doing community service helping others?
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: Please don't just make this a day off, make it
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: a you're listening to this Dave Harvey Morning Show, Happy
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: King Day. We are here on twenty nineteen King Holiday
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: talking about racism. As you know, our President Donald Trump
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: has denied being a racist, but the first half of
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: Trump's presidency has been marked by racial controversy. The president
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: has reportedly labeled African Americans nations as blank hold, blank
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  Speaker 1: hold countries. In August twenty seventeen, Trump took heat for
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: appearing to defend white nationalists after he said that there
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: were very fine people on both sides. We all remember
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: that that was following the deadly protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: And this is the type of thing that activists, religious
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: leaders and scholars say that puts Trump's presidency in direct
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: conflict with the legacy of doctor King, who was assassinated
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: April fourth, nineteen sixty eight while trying to make America
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: a more inclusive society. Uh. I don't think that Donald
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: Trump is aware of the efforts and greatness of modern
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: Luther King. I don't expect him to say anything of
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: any relevance at all, And if he does, he'll have
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: to read it, yeah, because he certainly doesn't embody anything
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  Speaker 1: anything that this man was about. You know, this is
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  Speaker 1: the same dude that said Frederick Douglas has done some
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  Speaker 1: great things. You know, he actually thought Frederick Douglas was
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  Speaker 1: still alive. Yeah, this dude right, and they're doing great work. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this dude, I don't expect anything from him. Every president
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  Speaker 1: has mentioned it. If he mentioned something, he's gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to read it and it will look like he's reading. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: for sure. His voice tone is different everything. There's almost
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  Speaker 1: no inflections in his voice. It's quite different when he's reading. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but when he's off script, he's loud and right. But
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  Speaker 1: when he tries to read the teleprompt he tries to
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  Speaker 1: be calm about it. But it's not genuine. He's just reading.
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  Speaker 1: He's just reading words. Believe what he's saying. There's just
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  Speaker 1: words coming out of his mouth. Yeah, he's just not
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we those of us who understand the
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  Speaker 1: legacy and what Marl Luther King, don't expect anything from
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  Speaker 1: the White House, no better than you've been getting. Don't
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  Speaker 1: get upset. You ain't gotta be mad about it. If
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  Speaker 1: he says anything, it will be read and he will
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  Speaker 1: not mean it, and he won't look like it because
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  Speaker 1: he embodies none of his principle, none of them. So
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  Speaker 1: don't please, don't even get mad today. It's just gon
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  Speaker 1: celebrate the brother, you know, don't with it. It's just
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  Speaker 1: I guess you know, after the Civil rights movement, this
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: che racial divide that we have in the country right now,
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  Speaker 1: this is where we are, yea, and our leader, the
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  Speaker 1: president is who's supposed to bring people together. He's the
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  Speaker 1: president for all people, the entire nation. Let me explain
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  Speaker 1: something to you. Even this um this government shutdown, Uh
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  Speaker 1: it was. It's all done so he can posture himself
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  Speaker 1: up to feel this commitment to a minimum of Americans,
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  Speaker 1: a very very minimum of American Because I heard very
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  Speaker 1: clearly today some people who don't have any money, who
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: are in line at a food bank, who because their
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  Speaker 1: federal employees say it's not fair to hold me hostage
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  Speaker 1: for a wall that I don't even know nothing about. True, true, true,
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what's happened, all right, Steve coming up
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  Speaker 1: closing remarks right after this. You're listening. The other day
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  Speaker 1: on the show, I was asking Ernie Hudson. I have
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  Speaker 1: this thing on the show called Uncensored rapid fire Questions,
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  Speaker 1: and I asked Ernie Hudson, if you could have dinner
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  Speaker 1: with any celebrity living or deceased, who would it be.
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  Speaker 1: And Ernie Hudson said Sidney Portier because he's an actor
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: and Ernie Hudson's an actor. It's sort of funny. So
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  Speaker 1: we were talking off the air and he asked me
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  Speaker 1: who would I want to have dinner with? And it's
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  Speaker 1: two people man that I said I wish I could
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  Speaker 1: sit and have dinner with, and it was Richard Pryor
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  Speaker 1: and Marlin Luther King. But I was kind of tossed
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  Speaker 1: up because I really want to sit down and have
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  Speaker 1: dinner with Muhammad Ali. So it's almost a three way affair.
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  Speaker 1: For me, it's almost even. These were three people who
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  Speaker 1: had a major impact on my life as a black
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  Speaker 1: man and as a career. I mean Richard Pryor man.
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  Speaker 1: When I saw him, the first time I saw him,
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: I said, that's what I'm gonna be now. Mohammed Ali,
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  Speaker 1: I knew him before I knew anything of Richard Pryor.
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  Speaker 1: Mohammed Ali was the first person that ever ever made
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  Speaker 1: me think I could be great. And even though I
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  Speaker 1: don't consider myself great, at least he put it inside
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  Speaker 1: of me and made me think I could be great
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  Speaker 1: and made me want to start working my tail off
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  Speaker 1: to achieve some form of greatness. But even before those two,
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  Speaker 1: Martin Luther King had put an impression on me as
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: a boy that has shaped and molded me even to
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  Speaker 1: this day. I remember in school, in elementary school, when
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  Speaker 1: he was killed and the teacher made us watch his
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  Speaker 1: funeral on TV. And that casket, that mule drawn casket
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  Speaker 1: was being pulled up the street, and I was looking
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  Speaker 1: at my teacher. She was just crying, man, And I
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  Speaker 1: was so not understanding why this happened. Because she used
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  Speaker 1: to play the speeches for us that I have a
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  Speaker 1: dream and all of that, and I could not understand
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  Speaker 1: for the life of me as a boy, why they
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  Speaker 1: would kill Martin Luther King. I heard my father to
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: say in angle one time after marm Luther King got killed.
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  Speaker 1: He said, boy, we're in a world of trouble and
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  Speaker 1: white folks just don't want to have nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with us. That impacted me, man, It impacted me because
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: I really really thought for so many years that white
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  Speaker 1: people really didn't want to have nothing to do with
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: Black people. And as I got a little bit older
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  Speaker 1: and I was listening back to his speeches because I
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  Speaker 1: used to play him in my car when I was
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: homeless year. I used to play a lot of Marana
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  Speaker 1: Luther King tapes. You could buy him at truck stops
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: and stuff just be Causet tapes. I was listening to
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: him and his message of peace and love and struggle
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: and what was right in human dignity. It started reshaping me,
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  Speaker 1: and I began to think, I said, Okay, this can't be.
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  Speaker 1: He can't be talking about all of us and all
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  Speaker 1: it's just a few people that don't on this to work.
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  Speaker 1: And so that started reshaping me. Also, he was so
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: impactful with what he said to us as a people
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  Speaker 1: that how in the world has this black man, with
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: his message of love and submission and strength, caused so
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: many changes in laws, affirmative action, so many things of
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: that nature. It caused a lot of people to view
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: us differently. When Bull Connors turned those fire hoses on
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: us in Birmingham, Alabama, it made America see what America
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: really was. And America had to change a little bit,
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And we still got a
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: long way to go. But I look back at MoMA
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: Luther King and all he stood for and what he did.
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  Speaker 1: It's just one of the greatest people of my time.
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  Speaker 1: Now you may have a different opinion, but this is
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: just mine. He was one of the greatest human beings
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  Speaker 1: of my time. I don't know anybody that has made
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: a bigger contribution to this world than him, the world
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  Speaker 1: that I live in that I see, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: a black person that made a larger contribution. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know a white person. I don't know a person that's
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  Speaker 1: made a larger contribution that was human. I just don't
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  Speaker 1: That's just my opinion. It's a powerful So when they
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: asked me who I wanted to have dinner with. If
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  Speaker 1: I could sit down with them three people right there,
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali, Richard Pryde, and mar Luther King, that's pretty
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  Speaker 1: much me. I would like to think of myself as
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: a combination of those three people. My career was patterned
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: after Richard Pryde just wanted to be funny. Nobody will
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: ever be Richard Pryde funny, but you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I wanted to be. I try to be
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: a decent person, as was Marma Luther King. I try
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  Speaker 1: to help and inspire people. But I got a lot
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: of dog in me too, a lot of fight, got
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: a lot of defiance in me. I got a lot
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: of strength and a lot of courage to stand up
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  Speaker 1: and say what I Sometimes I do stuff that ain't
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: so popular. I say stuff that ain't so popular, and
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: that's a little bit of our leads. So those three
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: people right there, they shape me, along with the greatest
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: man I've ever known, the incredible Jesse Slick Harvey Man.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Daddy for being a piece of all of
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: them too, with your bad black self. So mar Luther
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  Speaker 1: King day, I'm just proud to be a black man
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: I am, And that's pretty good too. For All Steve
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