Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 2.24.26

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, here we are last break of the
day and it is time for you Steve to take
a seat to.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Talk about racism.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
And you know, man, because I was giving it a
little bit of thought this week here and I was
by myself, and I was thinking about the existence of it. Now, listen,
I'm not going to say something so profound that explains
racism or where it stems from and all like that.
I just want to have a couple of thoughts I

(00:30):
wanted to share with y'all. You know, there are some
black people in this world who I just think are
not good representatives of who we are as a people.
And we all know some we all know some what

(00:53):
we wish they would just go sit down somewhere and
quit having a voice that they have, you know, making
us feel that kind of way feel bad. I've been
watching a lot online and there are a lot of
whites who feel the same way about a lot of
some whites that's out there. There are white people constantly

(01:14):
online talking about the racist white people that they know,
and they're not understanding why they won't admit to the truth.
And I'm saying all this because I want you to
understand that there are just some bad people on all
sides of the coin. There are some bad Black people,

(01:35):
some bad White people, some bad Latinos, some bad Asians,
some bad Christians, some bad Jewish people, some bad muslim some.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Whatever. It's just some bad ones.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
And what I found is that these bad ones, when
they are giving a voice and a platform, they bring
out the other bad ones so they have a place
where they can band together. And racism is such a
waste of energy. So I know for a fact that

(02:12):
I know a lot of white who are really, really,
really good people, and I know a lot of them,
But I know a whole lot of Black people that's
just some incredibly wonderful people. But I know some bad
ones too, And sadly, I've met enough of the bad

(02:36):
white ones, which is what keeps me on my toes
all the time, because sometimes racism in this country rears
its head at the most unexpected time. And we are
living in a time right now where racism at the
forefront is at an all time high.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
It's at an all time high, this after.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
The Emancipation Proclamation, this after the so called freeing of slaves.
It has never been more prevalent than it is today.
And it has a voice, it's got a following, it's
got streaming devices. I mean, man, they can organize. Did

(03:24):
you see what happen on January sixth? Did you see
what happened there? That was organized bigotry and hatred at
the highest level. And I know it was at the
highest level because when this man became president, he pardoned
all of them, which made him keep one campaign promise

(03:48):
on that day he said, if you go down there,
I will send my lawyers for you. And that's exactly
what he did, and he gave an executive pardon to
all these people. But I don't think people understand what
racism causes and does. And you know what, let me

(04:10):
just help you racist people out for just one second here,
not that you're going to listen, and not that you care,
because I know you don't. And that's what keeps us
so alive and well in this country because of your
bigoted ignorance, because of your unwillingness to understand just for
a moment, that the Civil Rights Bill was not for

(04:32):
us to get more.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
The Civil Rights Bill was simply all we wanted to
do was to be treated civil. We just wanted to
be treated civil like people like your constitutions say, stop
getting mad at black people when they don't stand for
the star spriangled banner, when they know full well you're
not singing about them. Don't ask me to put my

(04:54):
hand on my heart. Do you know the reason that
I do stand for the national anthem? For the people
who put them uniforms on, who left home and didn't
come back. That's really it, man, Because of the soldiers
and the military people out here that had to choose
this route as a way to earn a living. That's

(05:19):
really it, man. And you know what, I get sick
of people go, I don't know why you're complaining? You rich?

Speaker 2 (05:28):
What?

Speaker 4 (05:29):
Man?

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Let me explain something to you.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
I'm in this fight for us because I know, good
and well, if my black was not who I was
and didn't have the ability to do what I do,
I know good and hair well, I wouldn't be rich.
I know good and hall well, you wouldn't give me
nothing you done gave me. And just as a reminder,

(05:52):
the things I do have that you think you gave me,
I had to do ten times more then my counterparts
just to get a piece of what they got. So racism, man,
is ugly on so many levels, and I ain't scratched
the surface of it today. I just wanted to tell

(06:12):
y'all something. What we really want is just to be
treated fairly.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
That's all. We don't want more.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
If I had the time to tell you what affirmative
action was really for you, go somewhere and sit down.
But you're not because you don't care. You don't listen,
So keep on being racist. If we're gonna keep fighting
and we're gonna keep winning, and you're not gonna stop
us no matter what you do.

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