Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 11.05.24

Today in Closing Remarks, Big Dog has message to us about us and our ability to endure.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Steve, what a day it is. Election days
just getting started. But the polls are open. We want
to say thanks to Democratic Party national chair Jamie Harrison.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
The polls are open, the lines are developing. It's gonna
be one of them days, y'all. And it's one of
them days. Listen to me. The thing about us that
I know about us is we know how to endure.
Black people, brown people. They know how to endure. You

(00:36):
have had to. How else could you have survived this
the United States of America if you didn't have the
ability to endure. You know what? One of the somebody
asked me one time. They says, Steve, what's one of
your main attributes? I was talking to Keon Henderson, pastor

(00:57):
Kean Henderson, and we were talking. He says, Steve, what's
one of your main attributes? I said, you know what
it is, man, I've learned how to suffer. I suffer
extremely well. God has given me the strength, the courage,

(01:19):
the wisdom and to know how to stand still in
the face, in the face of all adversity and just
deal with it. God gave me that. If I didn't
have that ability to just deal with it. A lot
of the stuff would have just broke me, because I've
seen it break other people. But through God's strength, because

(01:43):
the Bible says all things are possible, All things are
possible for those who love the Lord, and I love him,
so He's given me that. But you know where I
got it from. I got it from my father. My
father got it from from his daddy, from his mama.

(02:05):
My grandfather was a slave till he was twelve years old.
My grandfather what My daddy was born in nineteen fourteen.
His father was a slave till he was twelve. Do
you understand what I'm telling you? Slavery didn't end because
of Emancipation Proclamation. That slavery didn't end. That was slavery

(02:28):
in Ohio to nineteen thirty six. That were people held
on plantations known documented as late as nineteen thirty six.
I read the book called the Emancipation of Robert E. Sadler.
He lived in Bruce, Cyrus, Ohio. I drove this cent

(02:49):
in front of his house one time when I worked
for when I worked for General Electric, I got history. Man,
I'm sixty seven years old. I've been around, i'dne seen
a lot. That's why it just troubles me when I
hear people talking about we're gonna sit it out at
the polls. We ain't going down there to vote. No,
you have to man for all of the people who

(03:10):
paved the way for the eighty eight year old caller
who called in today who asked everybody to go vote
for her mama and neam for the man that called
in and said we was under police attack, fire hose
german shepherds stopping us from voting, and they stood in
line so we could vote anyway. We got to vote. Man,
it's just a day. You can't lose your job for

(03:34):
standing in line at the polls voting. They cannot discipline
you and cause you paying on your job. You go
straight to h y'all with that, man, y'all got rights now.
But if we keep letting these we let the wrong
person get in. Project twenty twenty five gonna take care
of all these votes. You have got to vote today.
Go stand in line, and once you are in line,

(03:57):
even when the polls close, they cannot remove you from line.
They cannot remove you from the line. Also, Jamie Harrison
called in and said, if you have any trouble at
the polls today, if you sense any oakie dope, go
to I will vote dot Com immediately. They have lawyers

(04:17):
standing by. They will protect your right to vote. Don't
fall for the okie dope. Fold your arms, be black,
fold your arms and be brown. We ain going for
the okie dope today. I have my credentials. I don't
care what you say. And if you run up into
any problem, let them have the smoke. I will vote

(04:39):
dot Com and get these lawyers down there and involved.
Find you a black pole worker and walk up to
them and say, hey, this is what I'm trying to do.
They over here talking about this right here. There's people
over there that will help you. If you are in
line today and you see an elderly person and they
even look like they remotely might be struggling, help them out,

(05:02):
get them some assistance, get them to the front of
the line. They want to vote because they know the
importance of it. They ain't early voted because it's been
a tradition to them to go get in line. My
mom and daddy wasn't no early voting. They went down
there and still in line. My daddy missed work. He
went early as soon as it over. He told Frank, buddy,
I'll be late today. I'm going to vote, all right,

(05:26):
not just don't be down there too long. My father
hanging up on blankety blank the blank blank blank blank
blank blank, I'm going to vote blank you. Now, I
need y'all to have that attitude today. Let's get to
the polls and vote. Black men, if you have not voted,

(05:48):
go down there and show up. Man, this is our duty. Man,
Black women, you got to go vote. Latinos, you got
to go vote. They already told you what think of
y'all country, Puerto Rico and that, and you already know
what they think of Mexico. Look, well, I don't I
don't even I don't even know what the decision is.

(06:09):
We have got to go vote. I'm how many times
somebody got to tell you they don't give a damn
about you before you get it? I got it. Let's
go vote, y'all today is it the final day? Within
the next couple of days, Man show would be great
to rid this country of at BS. Its show would
be great. Man Kamala Harris for President of the United States.

(06:36):
The day up would be a great day. Y'all have
a good when y'all talk to God. He loved to
hear from it.

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