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Speaker 1: God is in the blessing business all day every day.
Speaker 1: God got hundreds of millions of blessings that he passes
Speaker 1: out every day. All I want to do is be
Speaker 1: the recipient that I'm the recipient of what He has
Speaker 1: for me. That's all I want. I just want God's favor,
Speaker 1: and I go I want God's blessings. You know, of
Speaker 1: course I need his mercy and his grace, but I
Speaker 1: just want his blessings and his favor. I want. I
Speaker 1: want that in my life because it does things for
Speaker 1: me that I'm absolutely incapable of doing for myself. And
Speaker 1: I've been a recipient of many of those, and you
Speaker 1: can be the recipient of them. Too. You already are, really, really,
Speaker 1: you already are. If you're getting up every morning, that's
Speaker 1: a blessing. If you're getting one day closer to anything
Speaker 1: you're trying to accomplish, that's a blessing. But now let
Speaker 1: me talk to you about this part right here, folks,
Speaker 1: because this is the part that messages people up a
Speaker 1: great deal. What happens when you get off track? What
Speaker 1: is that? What does that mean? When you get off track? See,
Speaker 1: I've been off track. I can't tell you how many times,
Speaker 1: and it happens in so many aspects of your life.
Speaker 1: But what is it that makes getting off track so
Speaker 1: debilitating to some people? You know, there are some people
Speaker 1: who want stay off track. They off course, they off
Speaker 1: the dream, they own to something else. And you cannot
Speaker 1: allow the fact that you've gotten off track to stop.
Speaker 1: You can't tell you something. Everybody gets off tracked. That
Speaker 1: are people who are living their life's dreams in spite
Speaker 1: of getting off track. See what happens when you get
Speaker 1: off track? Here's the simple thing to do. The simple
Speaker 1: thing is just to get back on track. Now that's
Speaker 1: that's But that's easier said than done, ain't it, Steve? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Because see people when you get off track. Here's some
Speaker 1: of the things that happened. See you get the here
Speaker 1: come to nay sayers, some of them from the outside,
Speaker 1: some of them internally. Here's what gets said when you
Speaker 1: get off track. See, I told you, I told you,
Speaker 1: you know you. You You start hearing that it's not
Speaker 1: for you. Okay, this is all just because you got
Speaker 1: off track. It's not for you. Okay, here's another one.
Speaker 1: It ain't meant to be. You can hear it all,
Speaker 1: you can say it. Well, I guess it's just not
Speaker 1: meant to be. But let me ask you a question, though,
Speaker 1: who made the rule that when you get off track
Speaker 1: you can't get back on? Who made that rule? Where
Speaker 1: has that written that once you get off track you
Speaker 1: can't get back on? See, because I'm gonna tell you something, folks,
Speaker 1: there's no such rule. As a matter of fact, it's
Speaker 1: quite the opposite. See, everybody in pursuit of a dream,
Speaker 1: a goal and aspiration or a mission, it's going to
Speaker 1: get off track. Sometimes you're going to get derailed. They
Speaker 1: are going to be days where you're not going to
Speaker 1: get it right. That are going to be days where
Speaker 1: you feel like giving up. There's going to be days
Speaker 1: when you're just gonna flat out get it wrong. That's
Speaker 1: the journey. But let me tell you something. Every successful
Speaker 1: person that I know, ever met, talked to, set out,
Speaker 1: and chopped it up with have shared one thing in common.
Speaker 1: We all get off track. We all get it wrong
Speaker 1: along the way. I don't care who the person is.
Speaker 1: The president got it wrong along the way. Your pastor
Speaker 1: got it wrong along the way. Qui Director Gui got
Speaker 1: it wrong along the way. The principle at your school
Speaker 1: got it wrong along the way. The valor victoria of
Speaker 1: your class got it wrong along the way. The star
Speaker 1: of the team got it wrong along the way. They've
Speaker 1: all been off track. Your boss down at your job,
Speaker 1: he got it wrong along the way. Your immediate supervisor
Speaker 1: got it wrong along the way. Everybody I know that
Speaker 1: has any measure of success in every level that you
Speaker 1: call success, however you want to label it, has gotten
Speaker 1: off track. As a matter of fact, it's impossible. Listen
Speaker 1: to me, it is impossible not to get off track
Speaker 1: in pursuit of your dreams, goals, visions, aspirations. It is impossible.
Speaker 1: Don't you let nobody tell you that they got through
Speaker 1: life unscathed, that they made it because they was just
Speaker 1: so determined and I would let nothing turn me back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you might not have let nothing turn you back because
Speaker 1: you hear all but you thought about it. Oh you
Speaker 1: thought about it on days when you was off track.
Speaker 1: But see, people don't like to tell the whole story.
Speaker 1: They just want you to think as much as you
Speaker 1: can about them. So when they tell you their story,
Speaker 1: they leave out the stuff alone. The way, it was
Speaker 1: just hard work and determination that got me here. No
Speaker 1: it wasn't, No, it wasn't. It was the fact that
Speaker 1: you got off track and the grace and mercy of
Speaker 1: God allowed you to get back on. His forgiveness allowed
Speaker 1: you to get back on because you would not believe
Speaker 1: what some of the people have done. So when you
Speaker 1: get off track, don't allow the naysayers outside and the
Speaker 1: big naysayer inside, because let me tell you something, the
Speaker 1: biggest naysayer of them all comes from inside. See, it
Speaker 1: don't matter what other people say out there. It takes
Speaker 1: some time for you to learn this. And I understand
Speaker 1: because it took me some time to learn it. See,
Speaker 1: I have a lot of naysayers out there, but I
Speaker 1: ain't operating for them, operating function for the ones that
Speaker 1: love me, for the ones that get me, for the
Speaker 1: ones that understand what I'm really trying to do. And
Speaker 1: so don't you be the one that doesn't allow yourself
Speaker 1: to get back on track when you get off track, because,
Speaker 1: like I said, who made the rule up that you
Speaker 1: can't get back on track? There's no such rule out there.
Speaker 1: Stop stopping yourself from getting it right. So what you
Speaker 1: started to diet at the beginning of the year, and
Speaker 1: you already off, start another one, start over, try it again,
Speaker 1: don't ever stop trying. If you stop trying, you can't
Speaker 1: make it. But if you never give up the effort,
Speaker 1: if you never give up and say it's over, it
Speaker 1: ain't over. You heard just saying it ain't over to
Speaker 1: the fat ladies saying I never invite her. She's not invited.
Speaker 1: It ain't over to the fat ladies saying I don't
Speaker 1: know where the fat ladies stay. I am not sending
Speaker 1: her an invitation to none of my events. She's not
Speaker 1: welcome here. She didn't ask me a couple of times,
Speaker 1: how come I never get invited? Because you're gonna start
Speaker 1: saying it and I ain't got time for that, all right,
Speaker 1: stop inviting the Fat Lady to all your events. Thank
Speaker 1: you you're listening, Steve Harvey, Marty Shaw, live and well.
Speaker 1: On this very very special email K Holiday, we celebrate
Speaker 1: the life of one of our greatest leaders of all time,
Speaker 1: Mark Luther King. Make no mistake about it, man, one
Speaker 1: of the great leaders we've had in our community. Did
Speaker 1: so much for civil rights and the movement and all
Speaker 1: things wrapped around that greatest or rator I've ever heard
Speaker 1: one of them anyway, well, the greatest I've ever heard,
Speaker 1: but anyway, just here to celebrate the life and times
Speaker 1: and the things that he's done. Today day of celebration
Speaker 1: today off also, so congratulations for that and congratulates for
Speaker 1: being recognized as a national holiday. That was a long
Speaker 1: fight to get that done, especially in this country. Lord
Speaker 1: know what that is, Charley Strawberry Colin for real Mouth
Speaker 1: of the South, Junior, boy and yourself were here about
Speaker 1: to get it. Do it? Junior? What's going on? Man?
Speaker 1: Hey man? It's Doctor King day. Man, what is your
Speaker 1: favorite speech without doctor King? Oh, without doubt, I have
Speaker 1: a dream you know it was really at his death
Speaker 1: in sixty eight, our teacher bought a television to school,
Speaker 1: a black and white TV, and we watched the funeral
Speaker 1: in school. And that was a period where I was
Speaker 1: really not with the Martin Luther King doctrine at all
Speaker 1: because when I came home when he got killed, my
Speaker 1: mother and father were crying. My father came home from
Speaker 1: work early, and I saw my mother and father stand
Speaker 1: in that crime. And I was a little boy. I
Speaker 1: didn't understand this. And my father said, man, white folks
Speaker 1: don't want us to have nothing. And you know, this
Speaker 1: is an old black man talking right in nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: eight who was born in nineteen fourteen. My father was
Speaker 1: born in nineteen fourteen. So I want you to understand now,
Speaker 1: just due right here and seen some things. So when
Speaker 1: I so when I heard him say white folks don't
Speaker 1: want us to have nothing, that affected me and my father,
Speaker 1: my father just say, you know, little little black boys
Speaker 1: and little white girls in drawing hands. I just said, man,
Speaker 1: they don't want us hold in their hand, they don't
Speaker 1: want us to That affected me. So for a long time,
Speaker 1: a long time sounded on your experience, it was truth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought, And it took years and years
Speaker 1: and years, because you know, I went to all black Elementary,
Speaker 1: all black Junior High all Black high school. It took
Speaker 1: me a long time to run into cool white people.
Speaker 1: Understand that, man, I was before segregation, I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean integration. I was before that was no busting. So
Speaker 1: you're looking at a kid man that had to evolve
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. I grew up in a
Speaker 1: time where what the statement my father made was ever
Speaker 1: so true to me. It took me a long time.
Speaker 1: And Martin Luther King listening for years after that was
Speaker 1: one of the things that brought me out of that.
Speaker 1: But I thought for a long time white people just
Speaker 1: didn't like us, and and and and sad to say,
Speaker 1: but there are moments where they take me right on
Speaker 1: back to that some of the actions of some white
Speaker 1: people today. Right now, yes, yes, right now, yes, all right. Well,
Speaker 1: as we celebrate the life and legacy of doctor Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King. Coming up at thirty two minutes after the hour,
Speaker 1: we'll place some highlights from doctor King's most famous speeches.
Speaker 1: Right after this. You're listening right now, here's a drum
Speaker 1: majorst speech on the Steve Harvey Morning Show. An instinct,
Speaker 1: it's a kind of drum major instinct, a desire to
Speaker 1: be out front, a desire to lead the parade, a
Speaker 1: desire to be first. It is something that runs a
Speaker 1: whole gamut of life. And so before we condemn them,
Speaker 1: let us see that we all have the drum major instinct.
Speaker 1: We all want to be important, to surpass others, to
Speaker 1: achieve distinction, to lead the parade. Alfred Adler the Great,
Speaker 1: a psychoanalyst, contends that this is the dominant impulse. Sigmund
Speaker 1: Freud used to contend that sex was the dominant impulse,
Speaker 1: and Adla came with a new argument, saying that this
Speaker 1: quest for recognition, this desire for attention, this desire for distinction,
Speaker 1: is the basic impulse, the basic drive of human human life,
Speaker 1: this drum major instinct. And you know, we begin earlier
Speaker 1: to ask life to put us first. Our first cry
Speaker 1: as a baby was a bid for the tension, and
Speaker 1: all through childhood the drum major impulse or instinct is
Speaker 1: a major obsession. Children ask life to grant them first place.
Speaker 1: They are a little bundle of ego. They have innately
Speaker 1: the drum major instinct. Now an adult life, we still
Speaker 1: have it and we really never get by it. We
Speaker 1: like to do something good, and you know, we like
Speaker 1: to be praise for it. Now, if you don't believe that,
Speaker 1: you just go on living life, and you will discover
Speaker 1: very soon that you like to be praised. Everybody likes it,
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact. And somehow this warm glow
Speaker 1: we feel when we are praised or when our name
Speaker 1: is in print, is something of the vitamin aid to
Speaker 1: our ego. Nobody is unhappy when they are praised, even
Speaker 1: if they know they don't deserve it, and even if
Speaker 1: they don't believe it. The only unhappy people about praise
Speaker 1: is when that praise is going too much towards somebody else.
Speaker 1: But everybody likes to be praised because of this real
Speaker 1: drum major instinct. Do you know that a lot of
Speaker 1: the race problem grows out of the drum major instinct.
Speaker 1: A need that some people have to feel superior, a
Speaker 1: need that some people have to feel that they are first,
Speaker 1: and to feel that their white skin ordained them to
Speaker 1: be first. And they have said over and over the
Speaker 1: game in ways that we see with our own eyes.
Speaker 1: In fact, not too long ago, a man down in
Speaker 1: Mississippis said that God was a child a member or
Speaker 1: the White Citizens Council, and so God being the child
Speaker 1: a member means that everybody who's in that has us
Speaker 1: a kind of divinity, a kind of superiority. And think
Speaker 1: of what has happening historism as a result, this perverted
Speaker 1: use of the drum mate instinct led to the most
Speaker 1: tragic prejudice, the most tragic expressions of man's inhumanity to man.
Speaker 1: I mean, not only does this thing going too, the
Speaker 1: racial struggle goes into the struggle between nations. And I
Speaker 1: would submit to you this morning that what is wrong
Speaker 1: in the world today is that the nations of the
Speaker 1: world engaged in a bitter, colossal contest for supremacy, and
Speaker 1: some doesn't having to stop this trend. I'm sorely afred
Speaker 1: that we won't be here to talk about Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: and about God and about brotherhood too many more years.
Speaker 1: Somebody done bringing into this suicidal thrust that we see
Speaker 1: in the world today. None of us are going to
Speaker 1: be around because some body is gonna make the mistake,
Speaker 1: through our senseless blunderings, of dropping a nuclear bomb somewhere,
Speaker 1: and then another one is gonna drop. And don't let
Speaker 1: anybody fool you, this can happen within a matter of seconds.
Speaker 1: They have twenty megaton bombs in Russia right now. That
Speaker 1: can destroy US city as big as New York in
Speaker 1: three seconds with everybody ripe away in every building, And
Speaker 1: we can do the same thing to Russian China. But
Speaker 1: this is why we are drifted, and we are drifting
Speaker 1: now because nations are caught up with the drum Major instinct.
Speaker 1: I must be first, I must be supreme all a
Speaker 1: nation must rule the world. I am sad to say
Speaker 1: that the nation in which we live is the supreme culprit.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna continue to say it to America because
Speaker 1: I love this country too much to see the drift
Speaker 1: that it has taken. God didn't call America to do
Speaker 1: what she's doing in the world now. God didn't call
Speaker 1: America to engage in a senseless, unjust war as a
Speaker 1: war in Vietnam, and we are criminals in that war.
Speaker 1: We've committed more war crimes almost than any nation in
Speaker 1: the world. And I'm going to continue to say it,
Speaker 1: and we won't stop it because of our pride, and
Speaker 1: I aracan sans the nation. But God has a way
Speaker 1: of even put nations in that place. Doctor Mark Luther
Speaker 1: King Junior's speech to drum Major instinct speech. It was
Speaker 1: actually delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, on
Speaker 1: February fourth, nineteen sixty eight. Doctor Mark Luther King Junior
Speaker 1: encouraged everybody to participate in community service. You're listening show,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the ride. We will continue with more
Speaker 1: of doctor Kings the drum major instinct speech. Nobody is
Speaker 1: unhappy when they are praised, even if they know they
Speaker 1: don't deserve it, and even if they don't believe it.
Speaker 1: The only unhappy people about praise is when that praise
Speaker 1: is going too much towards somebody else. But everybody likes
Speaker 1: to be praised because of this real drum major instinct.
Speaker 1: Do you know that a lot of the race problem
Speaker 1: grows out of the drum major instinct? A need that
Speaker 1: some people have to feel superior, A need that some
Speaker 1: people have to feel that they are first, and to
Speaker 1: feel that their white skin ordain them to be first.
Speaker 1: They have said over and over the game in ways
Speaker 1: that we see with our own eyes. In fact, not
Speaker 1: too long with or a man down in Mississippis said
Speaker 1: that God was a child, a member or the white
Speaker 1: citizens Council, and so God being the child a member
Speaker 1: means that everybody who's in that has us a kind
Speaker 1: of divinity, a kind of superiority. And think of what
Speaker 1: has happened in histories as a result, this perverted use
Speaker 1: of the drum mage instinct led to the most tragic prejudice,
Speaker 1: the most tragic expressions of man's inhumanity to man. I mean,
Speaker 1: not only does this thing go into the racial struggle,
Speaker 1: goes into the struggle between nations. And I would submit
Speaker 1: to you this morning that what is wrong in the
Speaker 1: world today is that the nations of the world engaged
Speaker 1: in a bitter, colossal contest for supremacy, and some doesn't
Speaker 1: having to stop this trend. I'm sorely afred that we
Speaker 1: won't be here to talk about Jesus Christ and about
Speaker 1: God and about brotherhood too many more years. Somebody done
Speaker 1: bringing into this suicide thrust that we see in the
Speaker 1: world today. None of us are gonna be around because
Speaker 1: somebody is gonna make the mistakes through our senseless blunderings
Speaker 1: of dropping a nuclear bomb somewhere, and then another one
Speaker 1: is gonna drop. And don't let anybody fool you. Oh,
Speaker 1: this can happen within a matter of seconds. They have
Speaker 1: twenty megaton bombs in Russia right now that can destroy
Speaker 1: US city as big as New York in three seconds
Speaker 1: with everybody ripe away in every building, and we can
Speaker 1: do the same thing to Russian China. But this is
Speaker 1: why we are drifted, and we are drifting now because
Speaker 1: nations are caught up with the German major instinct. I
Speaker 1: must be first, I must be supreme. Our a nation
Speaker 1: must rule the world. And I am sad to say
Speaker 1: that the nation in which we live is the supreme culprit.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to continue to say it to America
Speaker 1: because I love this country too much to see the
Speaker 1: drift that it has taken. God didn't call America to
Speaker 1: do what she's doing in the world now. God didn't
Speaker 1: call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war as
Speaker 1: a war in Vietnam, and we are criminals in that war.
Speaker 1: We have committed more war crimes almost than any nation
Speaker 1: in the world. And I'm going to continue to say it,
Speaker 1: and we won't stop it because of our pride, and
Speaker 1: I arrogant, says the nation. But God has a way
Speaker 1: of even putting nation in that place. The God that
Speaker 1: I worship has a way of saying, don't play with me.
Speaker 1: He has a way of saying. Is the God of
Speaker 1: the Old Testament used to say the Hebrews, don't play
Speaker 1: with me Israel, don't play with Smith Babylon. Be still
Speaker 1: and know that I'm God. If you don't stuff your
Speaker 1: reckless course, I'll rise up and break the backbone of
Speaker 1: your power. That can happen to America. Every nine then
Speaker 1: I go back and read Gibbons Decline and fall of
Speaker 1: the Roman Empire. And when I come and look at America,
Speaker 1: I say to myself, the parallels are frightening. We have
Speaker 1: perverted the drum made instinct. Every nine then I guess
Speaker 1: we all think realistically, yes, about that day when we
Speaker 1: will be victimized with what is life's final common denominator.
Speaker 1: That's something we call death. We all think about it.
Speaker 1: Then every nine then I think about my own death,
Speaker 1: and I think about my own funeral, and I don't
Speaker 1: think of it in a morbid sense. Every nine then
Speaker 1: I asked myself what is it that I would want
Speaker 1: to say? And I leave the word to you this morning.
Speaker 1: If any of you are wrong, when I have to
Speaker 1: meet my day, I don't want a long funeral and
Speaker 1: if you get somebody to deliver the unite, you tell
Speaker 1: him not to talk to you long every nine, then
Speaker 1: I wonder well I want him to say. Tell him
Speaker 1: not to letchen that I have a nobel peace pride.
Speaker 1: That isn't important. Tell him not to mention that I
Speaker 1: have three or four hundred of awards. That's not important.
Speaker 1: Tell him about to mention where I went to school.
Speaker 1: I like somebody to mention that day that Mardin Luther
Speaker 1: King Junior tried to give his life serving of us.
Speaker 1: I'd like for somebody to say that day that Mardein
Speaker 1: Luther King Junior tried to love somebody. I want you
Speaker 1: to say that day that I tried to be right
Speaker 1: on the wall question. I want you to be able
Speaker 1: to see that day that I did try to feed
Speaker 1: the hungry. I want you to be able to say
Speaker 1: that day that I did try in my life to
Speaker 1: close those who were naked. I want you to say
Speaker 1: on that day that I did try in my life
Speaker 1: to physicals who were imprisoned. I want you to say
Speaker 1: that I tried to love and serve humanity. Yes, if
Speaker 1: you want to say that I was a drum major,
Speaker 1: say that I was a drum major for justice, say
Speaker 1: that I was a drum major for peace. I was
Speaker 1: a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other
Speaker 1: shall of things will nothing matter. I won't have any
Speaker 1: money to leave behind, I won't have the fine and
Speaker 1: luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just
Speaker 1: want to leave I'll committed life behind, and that's all
Speaker 1: I want to say. If I can help somebody as
Speaker 1: I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a
Speaker 1: world a song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong,
Speaker 1: then my living will not be in vain. If I
Speaker 1: can do my duty as a Christian arc, if I
Speaker 1: can bring salvation to a war who wants wrote, if
Speaker 1: I can spread the message as the Master talk, then
Speaker 1: my living we'll not be in vain. You're listening to
Speaker 1: today's MLK Day. It is a day of service. Reverend
Speaker 1: Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior devoted his life to service
Speaker 1: and fighting for civil rights and freedom. Doctor King had
Speaker 1: a pursuit for racial, social, and economic justice. And Steve,
Speaker 1: I got to ask you this question. Uh, you know
Speaker 1: you talk about this a lot. You talked about it
Speaker 1: earlier this morning. You've been through a lot growing up,
Speaker 1: so How have you learned to deal with racism? How
Speaker 1: how have you dealt with it? I mean, look, I
Speaker 1: mean pretty much like most people. I mean, I'm angry
Speaker 1: about it. I don't I don't understand what's taken so long.
Speaker 1: It just it doesn't make any sense to me. It's
Speaker 1: it's actually pathetic. Why is it in twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: that people of color are still asking for equality, which
Speaker 1: seems like we're asking it from from from somebody that's
Speaker 1: not willing to give it. I mean, it's just obviously
Speaker 1: that there are people who are set in their ways,
Speaker 1: and it's frustrating now we Even with that said, I
Speaker 1: have devoted myself to being the best person that I
Speaker 1: can be, to elevate myself as high as I can,
Speaker 1: but not only elevate myself, stick my hand back down
Speaker 1: the wall and bring up as many people as I can,
Speaker 1: thus my foundation, thus my ranch, Thus me trying to
Speaker 1: promote young people, thus helping people. I'm constantly looking for
Speaker 1: ways to uplift the the oppressed, the downtrodden people, and
Speaker 1: and that carries over into all people too. And that's
Speaker 1: what's been crazy about it. Man. I'm willing to help
Speaker 1: all people now do I have a special affinity and
Speaker 1: do I target mostly people of color? Yeah? Yeah, do that.
Speaker 1: And I was talking to one guy one day and
Speaker 1: he said, well, how can you just target them? I said, whoa,
Speaker 1: that's where I see the most need. I see the
Speaker 1: most need in people of color and oppressed people. So
Speaker 1: I'm targeting my efforts. I said, you know, now, look,
Speaker 1: it's all types of people come to the camp. Anybody
Speaker 1: can come to the camp here. Asians are oppressed, they
Speaker 1: walcome at the camp. All Latinos come to my camp.
Speaker 1: They wasn't I got white kids come to the camp. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I got all of them. Diversity. But you know,
Speaker 1: you can't get mad at me because I know where
Speaker 1: the greater need is and I can see it more obviously,
Speaker 1: and it's my obligation because if the government not gonna
Speaker 1: do it, and they're trying to cut state funding and
Speaker 1: they're not gonna do it, well, let's just look at
Speaker 1: this right here. For example, let's just look at the
Speaker 1: education disparity in this country. Why do we have an
Speaker 1: educational disparity Because the money on the federal level that
Speaker 1: we pay in taxes and we pay state taxes, local taxes,
Speaker 1: it all goes into a fund. Now, the areas that
Speaker 1: pay the most funds into the state taxes or the
Speaker 1: federal taxes are the places that receive the most money back.
Speaker 1: Poor places are not gonna have as big a pool
Speaker 1: to pick from, so poor places stay behind the eight ball.
Speaker 1: It's the system they set up. See, they set that
Speaker 1: system up, not me. So what should be happening is
Speaker 1: we should as a country make sure that all people
Speaker 1: have access to a quality education and a free education.
Speaker 1: And that ain't the American way. That ain't the American way.
Speaker 1: But that's why we're losing education wise on a global
Speaker 1: level because other countries they don't. They don't do it
Speaker 1: that way. We should all be able to we make
Speaker 1: enough money in this country where everybody should get free
Speaker 1: medical there's a business we don't get that, right. But
Speaker 1: this is the system they set up. And the system
Speaker 1: is not set up and targeted for the underprivileged or
Speaker 1: the oppressed, well, the less fortunate, that's right. So it's
Speaker 1: not set up that way. So my obligation to my
Speaker 1: foundation is fun the less fortunate, the oppressed, the downtrod
Speaker 1: and I go out of my way to see that
Speaker 1: that happens. But you know we're gonna win. It's just
Speaker 1: sad that it's taken so damn long, and it it
Speaker 1: pisses you off. And I would say this to anybody
Speaker 1: who is not of color. How long would you like
Speaker 1: to wait to be treated equal? How much time you
Speaker 1: want to devote to same treatment, equal fastness in housing?
Speaker 1: How would you like it if every time you cut
Speaker 1: on the news the police were shooting somebody who looked
Speaker 1: like you? How long? How long you want us to wait?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm listening. It can't be much. And I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know the white lady's name that asked
Speaker 1: that famous question to a room full of white people,
Speaker 1: who in here would be willing to trade places with
Speaker 1: black people? Who? Elliot? Yeah, Jane um Jane Elliott. And
Speaker 1: she says, because you know that they are being treated unfamily,
Speaker 1: but that nobody's doing anything about it. So we have
Speaker 1: to do it ourselves. We have to do this ourselves.
Speaker 1: We have to keep picking ourselves up. That old pull
Speaker 1: yourself up by the bootstraps. Yeah, that's cool, except a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't have the boots or the straps.
Speaker 1: So you gotta keep the faith and we gotta reach
Speaker 1: back and we to help as many as we can.
Speaker 1: And it's so interesting that you asked the question, Steve,
Speaker 1: how long, because as we celebrate doctor Martin Luther King
Speaker 1: that was in the sixties, that was in the sixties.
Speaker 1: I ain't patient. I'm out of patience. I'm done with
Speaker 1: you talking about waiting. I ain't waiting no more. H See,
Speaker 1: people are hit the wall now. People, whether you ain't
Speaker 1: gonna give it, we're gonna take it. I'm exapt being exhausted.
Speaker 1: I'm overwhelmed. I'm sick and tired of it. And and
Speaker 1: we are people of color are sick and tired of it.
Speaker 1: And you would be too if it was happening to you.
Speaker 1: But it ain't happening to you, so you ain't gonna
Speaker 1: be sick and tired up that far. And we'll have
Speaker 1: more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show as we celebrate
Speaker 1: the life and legacy of doctor Martin Luther King Junior
Speaker 1: right after this. You're listening show. Well, today is MLK Day,
Speaker 1: and tomorrow tomorrow's Steve Harvey's Wow Steve sixty sixth birthday.
Speaker 1: Whoa six six six yes six s wow? Yeah. You
Speaker 1: can call Steven's voicemail at eight seven seven twenty nine,
Speaker 1: Steve eight seven seven twenty nine, Steven, leave him your
Speaker 1: birthday shout outs. You never know we could play your
Speaker 1: birthday shout out on the air. Okay, Steve, I know
Speaker 1: you have big plans for your birthday tomorrow. What's happening now?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I had just wait to see what
Speaker 1: your wife gonna do. But you know you get your
Speaker 1: kicks on around sixty six. Look at claiming. I'm yeah,
Speaker 1: somebody told man, you getting old? Yeah, old is the gold.
Speaker 1: If you don't like getting old, you ended. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can get any minute now. But you do know you
Speaker 1: won't be here for next Christmas. And it's man, it's
Speaker 1: just like wow, it's just like crazy. Man. Sixty six,
Speaker 1: that's a big number. Blessing, that's a big number. Man,
Speaker 1: that's a big number. This I probably feel more blessed
Speaker 1: this one than anyone before. And because I lost so
Speaker 1: many partners, many I lost, I lost some boys this year.
Speaker 1: Man that broke my heart. Will Horton que from Poland
Speaker 1: Green toutely do is my best friend. Marvel is marveln
Speaker 1: Horton's brother. We all Horton flipped Bass, my special and
Speaker 1: frat he passed. He was just at my house for
Speaker 1: the big round up we do for a bunch of queues.
Speaker 1: He was at my house. Then the next year we
Speaker 1: had it at my ranch. He wasn't. Now, so you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of us, a lot of cats,
Speaker 1: is dealing with health issues, and so this year was
Speaker 1: probably this is my one of my most grateful years,
Speaker 1: because you know, as we age, you know, I got
Speaker 1: some health things. I'm grappling with two. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: just the body been. You know, I was watching a video.
Speaker 1: Always says, you know, have if you ever noticed when
Speaker 1: you look at older couples, the woman is always a
Speaker 1: little bit most pride chipper than the man. The man
Speaker 1: is always dragging behind. The woman always looks a little
Speaker 1: bit more spride chipper in the real old couple. That's
Speaker 1: because that man has been grinding. And he says, when
Speaker 1: you've been grinding, grinding means to wear down something. You know,
Speaker 1: if you grind your teeth, if you grind two pieces
Speaker 1: of stone together, you ground the corn meal. He's grind
Speaker 1: you grinding. He said, that's that's hard. Man, and a
Speaker 1: lot of men man just suffer from being in the grind,
Speaker 1: and I've been grinding, man, I have. I've been grinding.
Speaker 1: There's a there's a price for for success. There's a
Speaker 1: price for poverty. You know. It's sort of funny. I
Speaker 1: want I'm gonna touch on that a little bit later
Speaker 1: on today. I'm gonna touch on that a little bit
Speaker 1: late on. All right, Steve, all right, coming up at
Speaker 1: thirty two minutes after the hour, we'll have more on
Speaker 1: this King holiday right after this. You're listening to the
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Morning Show. The late great Civil Rights icon.
Speaker 1: State Representative John Lewis spoke at the March on Washington
Speaker 1: back in nineteen sixty three, and then he spoke at
Speaker 1: the fiftieth anniversary March on Washington back in two thousand
Speaker 1: and fifteen. Take a listen, fifty years ago, fifty years ago.
Speaker 1: I stood right here in this spot, twenty three years old,
Speaker 1: head all of my hair, and I feel bines light off.
Speaker 1: So I come back here again, just said at those
Speaker 1: days for the most part a gone. But we have
Speaker 1: another fight. We must stand up and fight the good
Speaker 1: fight as we march today. But their forces, their people
Speaker 1: who wanna take us back, we cannot go back. We
Speaker 1: come too far we want to go forward. Back in
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, hundreds and thousand and millions of our
Speaker 1: brothers and sisters couldnt register to vote. When I stood
Speaker 1: here fifty years ago, I said, one man, one vote
Speaker 1: is African cry. It is ours tool. It must be ours.
Speaker 1: I also said, some people tell us to wait, tell
Speaker 1: us to be patient. I said, fifty years later, we
Speaker 1: cannot wait. We cannot be patient. We want jobs and
Speaker 1: we want our freedom. Now, all of us, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter whether we are black or white, Latino Asian America
Speaker 1: or Native American. It doesn't matter whether we are straight. Again,
Speaker 1: we are one people. We are one family, We are
Speaker 1: one house. We all live in the same house. So
Speaker 1: I said to you, my brothers and sisters, we cannot
Speaker 1: give up. We cannot give out, We cannot give in.
Speaker 1: We must get out there and push and pull them. Now.
Speaker 1: I a few short years ago, almost for the eight
Speaker 1: years ago, well for their years ago, almost fiftree years ago,
Speaker 1: I gave a little blood on that bridge and sell
Speaker 1: my Alabama for the right to vote. I am not
Speaker 1: gonna stand by and let the Supreme Court take the
Speaker 1: right to vote away from us. You cannot stand by.
Speaker 1: You cannot sit down. You got to stand up, speak up,
Speaker 1: speak out, and get in the way, make some noise.
Speaker 1: The vote is precious, it is almost sacred. It is
Speaker 1: the most powerful non violent tool be having a democratic society,
Speaker 1: and we got to use it. Back in nineteen sixty three,
Speaker 1: we hadn't heard of the internet. We didn't have well
Speaker 1: sell your telephone, I pad our part. But we used
Speaker 1: what we had to bring about a non violent revolution.
Speaker 1: And I said to all of the young people, you
Speaker 1: must get out there and push and pull and make
Speaker 1: America what America should be for all of us. We
Speaker 1: must sit to the Congress, fix the voting right side.
Speaker 1: We must set to the Congress past comprehensive immigration reform.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense that million of our people are
Speaker 1: living in the shadow. Bring them out into the light
Speaker 1: and set them on a path to citizenship. So hanging there,
Speaker 1: keep the faith. I got the rest of forty times
Speaker 1: during the sixties beating enough, bloody and unconscious. But I'm
Speaker 1: not tied, I'm not weary. I'm not prepared to sit
Speaker 1: down and give up. I'm ready at the fight and
Speaker 1: continue to fight. And you must fight. Thank you very much,
Speaker 1: you're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show, Happy King Holiday. On
Speaker 1: January sixth, about ten days ago, President Biden awarded the
Speaker 1: Presidential Citizens Medal, the country's second highest honor, to the
Speaker 1: heroes who defended the US capital during the January sixth insurrection.
Speaker 1: According to MSN dot com, these honorees included Capitol police
Speaker 1: officers and two election workers from Georgia who refused former
Speaker 1: President Donald Trump's pressure to overturn the results of the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty elections. Three of the medals were awarded posthumously
Speaker 1: to the families of police officers who died in the
Speaker 1: days after the attack, and President Biden told the honorees quote,
Speaker 1: history will remember your names, remember your courage, and remember
Speaker 1: your bravery. We are we all were just so proud
Speaker 1: of the US Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman, the brother
Speaker 1: who diverted the invading writers and domestic terrorists from the
Speaker 1: Senate Chamber. Take a listen to the moment when he
Speaker 1: was awarded his Presidential Citizens Medal. An Army combat veteran
Speaker 1: and a US Capitol Police officer, Eugene Goodman embodies fearless
Speaker 1: public service in the breach on January sixth, twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: He made himself a target to divert insurrectionists away from
Speaker 1: the Senate Chamber, enabling the former Vice president, lawmakers, and
Speaker 1: staff to escape safely in the face of a clear
Speaker 1: and present danger. He did his duty. You know what,
Speaker 1: you know what about that? That's amazing to me that
Speaker 1: in this country that steel hasn't been total justice for
Speaker 1: what has what happened on that day. That's right, you know,
Speaker 1: that's right, right, that steel hasn't been total justice two
Speaker 1: years ago. Yes, but I can't tell you for a fact,
Speaker 1: had those rioters been black, you would have seen one
Speaker 1: of the biggest slaughters of human life rushing in the
Speaker 1: Capitol like that. Yeah, Donald Trump has steal yet to
Speaker 1: answer or pay for his role in it. If Obama
Speaker 1: was president and had made that speech before the rioters
Speaker 1: went down to Capitol, how do you how do you
Speaker 1: think this would have played out in work area? And
Speaker 1: you know for Donald Trump not to be paying a price?
Speaker 1: Nyis now I have noticed. I don't know if you've noticed,
Speaker 1: but Fox Rupert Murdoch has said he would not support
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's bid. So now Fox, oh they didn't. Had
Speaker 1: Hannity and Tucker Carson come and so now they now
Speaker 1: they're saying, we knew all along he lost the election.
Speaker 1: Also it's a lie. Oh oh, now they're they're they're
Speaker 1: coming out because they got depositions. Now they say they
Speaker 1: knew it all along, that he had lost the election.
Speaker 1: Oh Hannity, his main boy pulling out, Tucker Carson. They're
Speaker 1: pulling back these depositions that they got, these boys saying
Speaker 1: that see CNN, don't tell him, don't they don't fight fair,
Speaker 1: they they they you know, they see and then try
Speaker 1: and fight like they Christians. That ain't what Fox doing.
Speaker 1: Fox fighting. We need to fight dog like we did evil. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a ball with some nails on the end of it,
Speaker 1: that's how Fox fight. And you know those two election
Speaker 1: workers that won the Presidential Citizens Medal Awards all of that,
Speaker 1: and Mom is still talking about them on his little
Speaker 1: social media and listen to me how he ain't being
Speaker 1: hell responsible this now Foxton pulled their support from this dude.
Speaker 1: But man, I'm telling you, it's we're such a hypocritical nation.
Speaker 1: This country. Man, this country makes me sick at times
Speaker 1: when we won't do the right, which has been making
Speaker 1: me sick for quite some time now. It's a wonder man.
Speaker 1: I ain't just I'm surprised. I'm still here, sick as
Speaker 1: I'm in. I've been sicking. I don't know what I got,
Speaker 1: but I got something. Yeah, thank god, man, he ain't
Speaker 1: took me out with this because I've been sicking this
Speaker 1: for a long time. It's just amazing, man, And that
Speaker 1: Marl Luther King's speech and his day. We still are
Speaker 1: grappling and wrestling with equality. Yes, yes, we're still grappling
Speaker 1: with voter suppression. You know, Dave standing out of voting
Speaker 1: places with fire hoses and guard dogs no more. But
Speaker 1: they got other ways now. Yeah, they're still trying to suppress.
Speaker 1: So and with all of that, we still have so
Speaker 1: very far to go. You know, I'm very proud of
Speaker 1: the accomplishments that a lot of us have made. I'm
Speaker 1: proud of a lot of families that's out there that's
Speaker 1: doing well. You know, Grant car Don't said something over
Speaker 1: the holidays that if a man is making less than
Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars a year for his family, he
Speaker 1: ought to be ashamed of himself. And I just looked
Speaker 1: at this, dude. No, wait, man, what No, you didn't
Speaker 1: Oh that was a big That was a big bloke.
Speaker 1: Grant car don't said if you're not making four hundred thousand,
Speaker 1: and I went, whoa dude? The hold up? Man? If
Speaker 1: you if you're taking care of your family? Yes, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: if you're taking care of your family, I don't give it.
Speaker 1: Dare what you make. You're doing what you're supposed to do,
Speaker 1: and you deserve a medal for being a man. Grant
Speaker 1: didn't say that nowhere off our Luke King Diddy, Bro
Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars year? Do you know how many people?
Speaker 1: But Bro, Bro, you how much money that that is?
Speaker 1: Though that's a lot of money? Proud the average American
Speaker 1: don't do that. No, I have a person does not
Speaker 1: do that for you to make that statement. I don't
Speaker 1: know what he was trying to say, and I haven't
Speaker 1: heard him iss your rebuttal yet, but I thought that
Speaker 1: was just like, man, how idiotic can you beat out
Speaker 1: of touch privilege that you are? Yes, that's that's right,
Speaker 1: that I was living pretty good without four hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie to you. And many families of
Speaker 1: four do you know my father? The most he made
Speaker 1: I think was fifty six thousand a year. I was big.
Speaker 1: That's that's good money. Yeah, that is today, that's good money.
Speaker 1: We're balled at year. Yeah, we were ball all of
Speaker 1: we balled at you at two pair of Jimmies. I
Speaker 1: just got Wawa, Man, I found Dog. I bought my
Speaker 1: first pair of gym shoes that was in the box
Speaker 1: that wasn't tied together in and not on a table
Speaker 1: able in the produce section at the grocery store. I
Speaker 1: remember the first pair of gym shoes I got that
Speaker 1: was in a box. Dog. I put them shoes in
Speaker 1: that box every night. Yeah, take care of them. You
Speaker 1: were a good steward. Yeah, and it was Yes, your
Speaker 1: daddy was there, your mama was there, your sisters and
Speaker 1: brothers and was family. Dog got bike for Christmas. What
Speaker 1: you're talking about, what you are rich, live, good, bless Yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, man, you have got to appreciate where you are. Yes,
Speaker 1: And you know, even myself, man, I've really had to
Speaker 1: rethink my goals and aspirations. I still have high goals
Speaker 1: and aspirations, but I've started to focus more on to
Speaker 1: where I am and show way more gratitude for where
Speaker 1: I am as opposed to where I want to be
Speaker 1: where I want to be. Dreams and visions you gotta have.
Speaker 1: But man, I'm way more grateful. I'm glad I came
Speaker 1: to that too. Yeah, and the moment, that's good And
Speaker 1: just Steph, why I Steve. The destruction the Rioters cause
Speaker 1: was one point five million dollars okay, one point five
Speaker 1: million dollars in damages. That's according to the US Attorney's
Speaker 1: Office for the District of Columbia. Several of the accused
Speaker 1: participants have either been convicted or are awaiting trial. The
Speaker 1: number of federal indictments against individuals accused of being involved
Speaker 1: in the Capitol Capitol Hill siege stands at nine hundred
Speaker 1: and forty as of January fifth of this year. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: They all need to be in jail, Yes they do,
Speaker 1: including Donald Trump. Yes, yes, their leading Now coming up,
Speaker 1: coming up at the top of the hour, we'll have
Speaker 1: more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show on this King Holiday.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Doctor Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King Junior once said that life's most persistent and
Speaker 1: urgent question is what are you doing for others? Coming up,
Speaker 1: we got some excerpts from doctor Kings. I've been to
Speaker 1: the mountaintop. Speech. Let us rise up tonight with a
Speaker 1: greater readiness in these powerful days, These days a challenge
Speaker 1: to make America what it ought to be. We have
Speaker 1: an opportunity to make America a better nation. And I
Speaker 1: want to thank God once more for allowing me to
Speaker 1: be here with you. You know, several years ago I
Speaker 1: was in New York City autographing the first book that
Speaker 1: I had written. While sitting they autographing books, the minute
Speaker 1: black woman came up. The only question I heard from
Speaker 1: her was you marderin Luther King? And I was looking
Speaker 1: down writing and I said yes. The next minute I
Speaker 1: felt something beating on my chest. Before I knew it,
Speaker 1: I had been stabbed by this diminuted woman. I was
Speaker 1: rushed to Hullum Hospital. It was a dark Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 1: That blade had gone through, and the X rays revealed
Speaker 1: that the tip of the blade was on the edge
Speaker 1: of my air order. The main ottery and one such's punction.
Speaker 1: You drowned in your own blood. That's the end of you.
Speaker 1: It came out in the New York Times the next
Speaker 1: morning that if I had merely sneezed, I would have died. Well.
Speaker 1: About four days later, they allowed me, after the operation,
Speaker 1: after my chest had been opened and the blade had
Speaker 1: been taken out, to move around in the wheelchair the hospital.
Speaker 1: They allowed me to read some of the mail that
Speaker 1: came in, and from all over the States and the world.
Speaker 1: Kind letters came in. I read a few, but one
Speaker 1: of them I will never forget. I had received one
Speaker 1: from the press it then and the Vice President. I've
Speaker 1: forgotten what those telegrams said. I'd received the visit and
Speaker 1: a letter from the Governor of New York, but I've
Speaker 1: forgotten what that letter say it. But that was another
Speaker 1: letter that came from a little girl, a young girl
Speaker 1: who was a student at the White Plains High School.
Speaker 1: And I looked at that letter. I'll never forget. It
Speaker 1: said simply, dear Doctor King, I am a ninth grade
Speaker 1: student at the White Plains High School. She said. While
Speaker 1: it should not matter, I would like to mention that
Speaker 1: I'm a white girl. I read in the paper of
Speaker 1: your misfortune and of your suffering, and I read that
Speaker 1: if you had sneezed, you would have died. I'm simply
Speaker 1: writing you to say that I'm so happy that you
Speaker 1: didn't sneeze, and I'd want to say the night. I
Speaker 1: want to say the night that I too, am happy
Speaker 1: that I didn't sneeze, because if I had sneezed, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been around hid in nineteen sixty when students
Speaker 1: all over the South started sitting in a lunchtounts, and
Speaker 1: I knew that as they were sitting in they were
Speaker 1: really standing up for the best in the American dream
Speaker 1: and taken the whole nation back to those great weals
Speaker 1: of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers
Speaker 1: in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. If I
Speaker 1: had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around hid in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty one when we decided to take a ride for
Speaker 1: freedom and end its segregation in it to state travel.
Speaker 1: If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here.
Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty two, when Negroes and all been at
Speaker 1: Georgia decided to straighten that box up. And whenever the
Speaker 1: men and women straighten that box up, they are going somewhere,
Speaker 1: because the men had roger back unless it is bent.
Speaker 1: If I had see I had sneezed, I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been here in nineteen six to three, the black people
Speaker 1: of Birmingham, Alabama aroused the conscience of this nation and
Speaker 1: brought into being the Civil Rights Bill. If I had sneeze,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have had a chance later that year in
Speaker 1: August to try to tell America about a dream that
Speaker 1: I had had. If I had sneeze, I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been down in Selma, Alabama to see the Gretain movement there.
Speaker 1: If I had sneeze, I wouldn't have been in Memphis
Speaker 1: to see a community rally around those brothers and sisters
Speaker 1: who are suffering. I'm so happy that I didn't sneeze.
Speaker 1: And they were telling them now it doesn't matter now,
Speaker 1: it really doesn't matter what happens now. I left Atlanta
Speaker 1: this morning, and as we got arted on the plane
Speaker 1: that was six of us, the pilot said over the
Speaker 1: public address system, we are sorry for the delay, but
Speaker 1: we have doctor Mard Luther King on the plane, and
Speaker 1: to be sure that all of the bags were checked
Speaker 1: and to be sure that nothing would be wrong on
Speaker 1: the plane, we had to check out everything carefully, and
Speaker 1: we've had the plane protected and guard it all night.
Speaker 1: And then I got into Memphis and some began to
Speaker 1: say the threats, talk about the threats that were out.
Speaker 1: What would happen to me from some of our sick
Speaker 1: white brothers. Well, I don't know what will happen now.
Speaker 1: We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't
Speaker 1: matter with me now because I've been to the mountaintop.
Speaker 1: I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live
Speaker 1: a long life. Longevity has its place, but I'm not
Speaker 1: concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will,
Speaker 1: and He's allowed me to go up to the mountain,
Speaker 1: and I've looked over and I've seen the promised Land.
Speaker 1: I may not get there with you, when I want
Speaker 1: you to know the night that we as a people
Speaker 1: will get to the promised Land. So I'm happy to night.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about anything. I'm not feeling any man.
Speaker 1: Mine eyes have seen the glory on the coming of
Speaker 1: the Lord. You're listening morning show coming up. We're gonna
Speaker 1: play some excerpts from Doctor Kings. I have a dream speech.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to on with you today in what will
Speaker 1: go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom
Speaker 1: in the history of our nation. Five score years ago,
Speaker 1: a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today
Speaker 1: signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a
Speaker 1: great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves
Speaker 1: who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.
Speaker 1: It came as a joyous day break to end the
Speaker 1: long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later,
Speaker 1: the Negro steal is not free. One hundred years later,
Speaker 1: the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by
Speaker 1: the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One
Speaker 1: hundred years later, the negro lives on a lonely island
Speaker 1: of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of
Speaker 1: material prosperity. One hundred years later, the negro is still
Speaker 1: languished in the corners of American society and finds himself
Speaker 1: in exile in his own land. So we've come here
Speaker 1: today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense, we've
Speaker 1: come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When
Speaker 1: the architects of our Republic wrote the magnetic present words
Speaker 1: of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were
Speaker 1: signing a promise or reoe to whichever the American was
Speaker 1: to fall air. This note was a promise at all men, Yes,
Speaker 1: black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed
Speaker 1: the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 1: It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this
Speaker 1: promise or note in so far as her citizens of
Speaker 1: color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America
Speaker 1: has given the Negro people a bad check, a check
Speaker 1: which has come back marked insufficient farm. But we refuse
Speaker 1: to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. He
Speaker 1: refused to believe that that are insufficient funds in the
Speaker 1: great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we've come
Speaker 1: to cash this check, a check that will give us
Speaker 1: a pun demand the riches of freedom and the security
Speaker 1: of justice. We have also come to this hell of
Speaker 1: spot to remind a miracle of the fierce urgency of now.
Speaker 1: This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling,
Speaker 1: offer to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is
Speaker 1: the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now
Speaker 1: is the time arise from the dark and desolate valley
Speaker 1: of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now
Speaker 1: is the time from the quick sends a racial injustice
Speaker 1: to the solid rock or brotherhood. Now is the time
Speaker 1: of reality. For all of God's toil, It would be
Speaker 1: fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.
Speaker 1: This sweltering summut of the Negroes legitimate discontent will not
Speaker 1: pass until that is an invigorating altumn of freedom and equality.
Speaker 1: Nineteen sixty three is not an end, but a beginning.
Speaker 1: Those who hope at the Negro needed to blow off
Speaker 1: steam and will now be content, will have a rude awakening.
Speaker 1: If the nation returns to business as usual, that will
Speaker 1: be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro
Speaker 1: has granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds a revolt will
Speaker 1: continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the
Speaker 1: bright day of justice emerges. But that is something that
Speaker 1: I must say to my people who stand on the
Speaker 1: warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In
Speaker 1: the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not
Speaker 1: be guilty of wrong for deeds. Let us not seek
Speaker 1: to satisfy our first for freedom by drinking from the
Speaker 1: cup of bitterness and hatred. You're listening Morning show right now.
Speaker 1: As promise, we're gonna play some of doctor Kings. I
Speaker 1: have a dream speech which he delivered on the steps
Speaker 1: so the Lincoln Memorial back in nineteen sixty three. One day,
Speaker 1: right now in Alabama, little black bars and black girls
Speaker 1: will be able to join hands with little white bars
Speaker 1: and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a
Speaker 1: dream today. I have a dream that one day every
Speaker 1: valad shall be exhulted, Every hill and mountains shall be
Speaker 1: made low, The rough places would be made plain, and
Speaker 1: the crooked places will be made straight, and the gore
Speaker 1: of the Lord shall be revealed. All shall see it together.
Speaker 1: This is our hope. This is a piece that I
Speaker 1: go back to the software. With this fail we will
Speaker 1: be able to he out of the mountains, not to
Speaker 1: spare a stone of hope. With this fee, we will
Speaker 1: be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation
Speaker 1: into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this fee, we
Speaker 1: will be able to work together, to pray together, to
Speaker 1: struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up
Speaker 1: for freedom, together, knowing that we will be free. One day.
Speaker 1: This will be the day when all of God's children
Speaker 1: be able to sing with new meaning, My country tearsity,
Speaker 1: sweet land of liberty, of be our sings, land where
Speaker 1: my fathers died, Land of the pilgrim's pride. From every
Speaker 1: mountain side. Let freedom ring in Americas. To be a
Speaker 1: great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring
Speaker 1: from the prodigious hilltop of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring
Speaker 1: from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring
Speaker 1: from the heightening allegantes of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from
Speaker 1: the snow cap rook is of Colorado. Let freedom ring
Speaker 1: from the crebacious slopes of California. But not only that.
Speaker 1: Let freedom ring from stone mountain of Georgia. Let freedom
Speaker 1: ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from
Speaker 1: every hill and mole hill of Mississippi, from every mountain fire,
Speaker 1: Let freedom ring and windom happens when we allow freedom ring.
Speaker 1: When we let in a ring from every village and
Speaker 1: ever hamlet from every state and every city, we will
Speaker 1: be able to speed up that day when all about children,
Speaker 1: black men, white men, twos and ten files, protostants and
Speaker 1: catholic we'll be able to drain hands and singing the
Speaker 1: words of the old Nigro spiritual, free and last, free
Speaker 1: and last. Thank god you're listening to say morning show,
Speaker 1: Today's MLK Day. It is a day of service. Reverend
Speaker 1: Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior devoted his life to service
Speaker 1: and fighting for civil rights and freedom. Doctor King had
Speaker 1: a pursuit for racial, social and economic justice. And Steve,
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you this question. Uh, you know, you
Speaker 1: talk about this a lot. You talked about it earlier
Speaker 1: this morning. You've been through a lot growing up. So
Speaker 1: how have you learned to deal with racism? How how
Speaker 1: have you dealt with it? I mean, look, I mean
Speaker 1: pretty much like most people. I mean, I'm angry about it.
Speaker 1: I don't understand what's taken along. It doesn't make any
Speaker 1: sense to me. It's it's actually pathetic. Why is it
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three that people of color are still
Speaker 1: asking for equality, which seems like we're asking it from
Speaker 1: from from somebody that's not willing to give it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just obviously that there are people who are set
Speaker 1: in their ways, and it's frustrating now we're even with
Speaker 1: that said, I have devoted myself to being the best
Speaker 1: person that I can be to elevate myself as high
Speaker 1: as I can, but not only elevate myself, stick my
Speaker 1: hand back down the wall and bring up as many
Speaker 1: people as I can, thus my foundation, thus my ranch,
Speaker 1: Thus me trying to promote young people, thus helping people.
Speaker 1: I'm constantly looking for ways to uplift the the oppressed,
Speaker 1: the downtrodden people, and that carries over into all people too.
Speaker 1: And that's what's been crazy about it. Man, I'm willing
Speaker 1: to help all people. Now, do I have a special
Speaker 1: affinity and do I target mostly people of color? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: do that. And I was talking to one guy one
Speaker 1: day and he said, well, how can you just target them?
Speaker 1: I said, whoa, That's where I see the most need.
Speaker 1: I see the most need in people of color and
Speaker 1: oppressed people. So I'm targeting my efforts. I said, you know, now,
Speaker 1: look it's all types of people come to the camp.
Speaker 1: Anybody can come to the camp. Him and Asians are oppressed.
Speaker 1: They welcome at the camp. All Latinos come to my camp.
Speaker 1: There wasn't I got white kids come to the camp.
Speaker 1: You know, I got all of them. Diversity, But you know,
Speaker 1: you can't get mad at me because I know where
Speaker 1: the greater need is and I can see it more obviously,
Speaker 1: and it's my obligation because if the government not gonna
Speaker 1: do it, well, let's just look at this right here.
Speaker 1: For example, let's just look at the education disparity in
Speaker 1: this country. Why do we have an educational disparity? Because
Speaker 1: the money on the federal level that we pay in
Speaker 1: taxes and we pay state taxes, local taxes, it all
Speaker 1: goes into a fund. Now, the areas that pay the
Speaker 1: most funds into the state taxes or the federal taxes
Speaker 1: are the places that receive the most money back. Poor
Speaker 1: places are not gonna have as big a pool to
Speaker 1: pick from, so poor places stay behind the eight ball.
Speaker 1: It's the system they set up. See they set that
Speaker 1: system up, not me. So what should be happening is
Speaker 1: we should as a country make sure that all people
Speaker 1: have access to a quality education and a free education.
Speaker 1: And that ain't the American way. That ain't the American way.
Speaker 1: But that's why we lose using education wise on a
Speaker 1: global level because other countries they don't, they don't do
Speaker 1: it that way. We should all be able to we
Speaker 1: make enough money in this country where everybody should get
Speaker 1: free medical there's a business. We don't get that right,
Speaker 1: But this is the system they set up. And the
Speaker 1: system is not set up and targeted for the underprivileged
Speaker 1: or the oppressed or the less fortunate, that's right. So
Speaker 1: it's not set up that way. So my obligation of
Speaker 1: my foundation is fun the less fortunate, the oppressed, the
Speaker 1: down tried, and I go out of my way to
Speaker 1: see that that happens. But you know we're gonna win.
Speaker 1: It's just sad that it's taken so damn long, and
Speaker 1: as it pisses you off. And I would say this
Speaker 1: to anybody who is not of color, how long would
Speaker 1: you like to wait to be treated equal? And we'll
Speaker 1: have more of a Steve Harvey Morning Show as we
Speaker 1: celebrate the life and legacy of doctor Martin Luther King Junior.
Speaker 1: Right after this. You're listening. King Holiday is a day
Speaker 1: of service, Steve, You and your wife Marjorie are always
Speaker 1: giving back with your foundation. You mentor. We know that
Speaker 1: you have a great mentoring camp and what you do
Speaker 1: for these young men is so wonderful. So I have
Speaker 1: to ask you why is mentoring so important to you? Well,
Speaker 1: the girls, we can just ended down at the ranch.
Speaker 1: Marjorie was down there with the girls. It just ended.
Speaker 1: You could probably catch all the photos and stuff online.
Speaker 1: Are they She even spent the night with the girls
Speaker 1: at the Georgia Aquarium and then she spent down at
Speaker 1: the ranch. The new ranch we have, even though it's
Speaker 1: not built out yet. I'm still got to get a
Speaker 1: lot of funding to build it out to make it complete,
Speaker 1: but we've started the process, man. So the girls had
Speaker 1: their weekend down at the ranch. It's just important, man,
Speaker 1: It's just important to give back because once again, we
Speaker 1: live in a world that's not look those of us
Speaker 1: that are fortunate enough to help, we should help with
Speaker 1: our foundations or whatever. But the majority of the people
Speaker 1: that's doing the great work are not famous, rich people.
Speaker 1: The real soldiers out there on the front line is
Speaker 1: the coaches that's coaching every day for teachers, pay for
Speaker 1: the women out there who are being single mothers and
Speaker 1: raised days kids the right way. Those programs out there,
Speaker 1: the Big Brother Big Sister organizations, those after school programs,
Speaker 1: those are things that they do with Dan's troops and
Speaker 1: and drill teams and drama academies. That's the real work,
Speaker 1: and those are the real soldiers, and I want to
Speaker 1: thank those people for caring out the work that don't
Speaker 1: get the notoriety. That's because they're not famous or rich.
Speaker 1: That's right, Steve. And we'll have more of the Steve
Speaker 1: Harvey Morning Show on this King Holiday right after this.
Speaker 1: You're listening, well, today is MLK and tomorrow tomorrow's Steve
Speaker 1: Harvey's Wow Steve sixty sixth birthday six six six yes,
Speaker 1: six wow. Yeah. You can call Steven's voicemail at eight
Speaker 1: seven seven twenty nine, Steve eight seven seven twenty nine, Steven,
Speaker 1: leave him your birthday shout outs. You never know, we
Speaker 1: could play your birthday shout out on the air. Okay, Steve,
Speaker 1: I know you have big plans for your birthday tomorrow.
Speaker 1: What's happening now? I no, I had just wait to
Speaker 1: see what your wife gonna do. But you know you
Speaker 1: get your kicks on around sixty six. Oh look at claiming. Yeah,
Speaker 1: somebody told man you getting old? Yeah, old is the gold.
Speaker 1: If you don't like getting old, you ended, yeah, you
Speaker 1: can get any minute now. But you do know you
Speaker 1: won't be here for next Christa. And it's a it's
Speaker 1: just like wow, it's just like crazy, man, sixty six.
Speaker 1: That's a big number. That's a big number, man, that's
Speaker 1: a big number. This I probably feel more blessed this
Speaker 1: one than anyone before. And because I lost so many partners,
Speaker 1: many I lost. I lost some boys this year. Man
Speaker 1: that broke my heart. We all Horton que from Poland
Speaker 1: Green totely Do is my best friend. Marvel is Marvel
Speaker 1: Horton's brother. We all Horton flipped bass, my special and
Speaker 1: frat he passed. He was just at my house for
Speaker 1: the big round up we do for a bunch of ques.
Speaker 1: He was at my house and the next year we
Speaker 1: had it at my ranch. He wasn't. Now, So you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of us, a lot of cats,
Speaker 1: is dealing with health issues, and so this year was
Speaker 1: probably this is my one of my most grateful years
Speaker 1: because you know, as we age, you know, I got
Speaker 1: some health things. I'm grappling with two. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: just the body been. You know, I was watching a video,
Speaker 1: he says. You know, if you ever notice when you
Speaker 1: look at older couples, the woman is always a little
Speaker 1: bit most pride chipper than the man. The man is
Speaker 1: always dragging behind, the woman always looks a little bit
Speaker 1: more spride chippering the real old couple. That's because that
Speaker 1: man has been grinding. And he says, when you've been grinding,
Speaker 1: grinding means to wear down something. You know, if you
Speaker 1: grind your teeth, if you grind two pieces of stone together,
Speaker 1: you ground the corn meal. He's grind you grind it,
Speaker 1: he said, that's that's hard man, and a lot of
Speaker 1: men man just suffer from being in the grind. And
Speaker 1: I've been grinding, man, I have. I've been grindes. There's
Speaker 1: a priceful for success. There's a price for poverty. You know.
Speaker 1: It's sort of funny. I Want'm'm gonna touch on that
Speaker 1: a little bit later on today. I'm gonna touch on
Speaker 1: that a little bit later on. All right, Steve, all right,
Speaker 1: coming up, we'll have more on this King holiday right
Speaker 1: after this. You're listening, all right, So, Steve, we get
Speaker 1: this request every year people want us to play the
Speaker 1: closing from your stand up special. Remember when you did this.
Speaker 1: This is so memorable. Don't trip. He ain't through with
Speaker 1: me yet. At Bishop td Jake's megafest. This was back
Speaker 1: in two thousand and six. People still love this. Was
Speaker 1: that seventeen years ago. Whoa, I know the exact year
Speaker 1: that I stopped going to hell. Well that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: Two thousand and five, two thousand and six by RDE
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, when I really put the brakes
Speaker 1: on it. But yeah, I was a full blast all
Speaker 1: the way up to two thousand, full black rocket rocket boosters,
Speaker 1: just going committed. Yeah. Man. Then Bishop called you you too,
Speaker 1: and you know, and he called me and asked me,
Speaker 1: and I told him, I said, man, let me think
Speaker 1: about and then I told him finally about the third
Speaker 1: cast of Bishop. I said, I can't do it. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised you're asking me that. That's a whole I know,
Speaker 1: because I remember Church people ain't gonna deal me. He said, Hey, man,
Speaker 1: I know you, he said, but better than that, God
Speaker 1: know your heart. He said, you good brother man, you
Speaker 1: could do it. Come on, do this all right, man,
Speaker 1: I'll do it good. I'm gonna put you down and
Speaker 1: put you on the way. All right. Good. He was
Speaker 1: done with it. He didn't know what he had threw
Speaker 1: me into. Because let me tell you something, man, I
Speaker 1: had to go right, don't trip. He ain't through with
Speaker 1: me yet. It's a whole special, I wrote I had
Speaker 1: to go write that special. What jokes I was doing
Speaker 1: on the road that special I had to go write
Speaker 1: that one. I had to go put this church stuff together.
Speaker 1: It was probably the easiest hardest set I've ever written
Speaker 1: because I grew up in the church, so I knew
Speaker 1: a lot of church stuff, right. I did not think
Speaker 1: that the church folks was going to accept it because
Speaker 1: I was gonna have to talk about it. I was
Speaker 1: gonna have to talk about the people that they let
Speaker 1: read announcements, you know, because the first thing about reading announcements,
Speaker 1: reading is fundamental. You can't putting the ignorant people shouldn't
Speaker 1: be reading announcement at I just it's just a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff I knew calling the past about every little
Speaker 1: thing I just I said. And then stuff that I
Speaker 1: knew how to choir, saying who in the choir? You know?
Speaker 1: Stuff you can't do no more? Right? Right? I do
Speaker 1: any of them jokes. I'm being troubled. That's so true, Steve,
Speaker 1: Because my grandmother when she saw that special, she said,
Speaker 1: how he know all this is true? Talking about the church,
Speaker 1: all of that because I knew church, I grew up
Speaker 1: in it. What he was gonna ask me I was like, like,
Speaker 1: you know, like for US comedians, you know, you don't
Speaker 1: know where the bid gonna come from. Do you remember
Speaker 1: the money? Yeah? Do you remember the moment when you
Speaker 1: came up with that intro for Christ? Do you know
Speaker 1: you was at the time and place I was at.
Speaker 1: I was at the Grand Lux restaurant. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: there too. I remember because I used to go from
Speaker 1: the radio show to the Grand Lux and sit there
Speaker 1: all day, sometimes three meals there. We played dominos all
Speaker 1: day though, all day. That's why they shut down too.
Speaker 1: You know. I had a lot going on back then.
Speaker 1: We knew and you know, like and I would just
Speaker 1: sit there and so one day Man Boom was there
Speaker 1: and Boom Dog, you know, had a hell of career. Man,
Speaker 1: what you like the most? I said, Man, I introduced everybody.
Speaker 1: I didn't introduce Bobe and Stripe saying, I introduced you know,
Speaker 1: Neil Diamond, Donon introduced. I'm telling about every black person
Speaker 1: beyond sat jay Z. I don't care who it is.
Speaker 1: I Luther Whitney, Michael, I said. The only person I
Speaker 1: ain't never introduced was Jesus. I said, if I could
Speaker 1: just introduce Jesus, that are capping for me. They said, man,
Speaker 1: what would you say? And that was a bit. If
Speaker 1: I had the pleasure of bringing out Christ, this is
Speaker 1: just how I would do it. It ain't got to
Speaker 1: be the way you do it. You might not think
Speaker 1: it's just right, but this is how I would do it.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to introduce a
Speaker 1: man who needs no introduction ship. His credits are too
Speaker 1: long to list. He has done the impossible time after time.
Speaker 1: He had out of the major in Bethleham, Jerusalem by
Speaker 1: way of Heaven. His mother is still headlining in the
Speaker 1: Catholic Church today. He scattered is the author of a
Speaker 1: book that has been on the best seller list since
Speaker 1: the beginning of time. He holds the record for the
Speaker 1: walls freight its fish fry. He fed five thousand harm
Speaker 1: resuls with too fish five lose the bread. He can
Speaker 1: walk on water, turn water in the wine, no special effects,
Speaker 1: no camera tricks. He has a head shot on every
Speaker 1: church fan across the countin. Even before the Kings of
Speaker 1: coming in, he was hailed the key of all Kings,
Speaker 1: ruler of the universe, out for in a bega beginning
Speaker 1: in the end the Bread and the moaning sick, some
Speaker 1: saying he's the rose of shimmering, and some say he's
Speaker 1: the principal. People. Get up on your feet, put your
Speaker 1: hands together, and show your love for the second coming
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