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