Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 7.13.26

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, here we are, last break of the day.
Thank you all for joining us every single day. We
can't thank you enough. Steve, please close us out with
some great.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
My closing remarks today is gonna be encouraging. I want
to remind all of us, myself included, all of you
that this life we have, this life is ours. The
progress that we've made as a people is ours. Look,

(00:32):
we've overcome a lot since we've been in this country.
This country owes us a lot. This country's not gonna
give us what they owe us, but this country owes us.
You know, this country was built on the backs of
our ancestors. That's how this country was built. The bulk

(00:53):
of the wealth that America possesses today was because of
the free labor that was acquired doing slavery. I mean
the food industry, the tobacco industry, and I can go
on and on and on the money that was made
from that that spond other businesses. It can go on

(01:13):
and on and on, fruit, cotton, clothing, wheels, at everything.
All these companies you see now who come from rich families.
That lineage started from getting rich off the backs of slavery.
So I got that So what I'm saying to all

(01:35):
of us is this, we are not going to sit
here and allow any one, any one person, any one administration,
any group of people in a booklet called Project twenty
twenty five, and we're not going to sit here and
allow them to dictate to us how we live, how

(01:56):
our children live, how our grandchildren live. We're not gonna
do that. If you think that we're gonna just get
pushed to the side and go away quietly, you have
another thing coming. We are more resilient than that. As
a matter of fact, we are some of the most
resilient people that I know, because I don't know how

(02:18):
after all that we've been through, that we managed to
somehow get here. I mean, you know, we really deserve
some credit for that. We really really do. And at
all that I personally had to go through, I would
not trade a day of being black for anything else,
nothing else. It has been one of my most most

(02:39):
just one of my most proudish accomplishments. Somebody asked me
the other day I was doing an interview out the country,
and they said, what are you most proud of? And
it led into a whole other conversation. I said, but
I'm most proud that coming from America, that I accomplished
what I accomplished as a black person. I am the
most proud of having accomplished what I've accomplished as a

(03:03):
black person. The guy whose interview wasn't black. He said,
you sound like that takes more. That's extra. Oh, it
takes a whole lot more. It takes more than I
care to tell you. I could tell you how much more,
but you really wouldn't believe it. So I'm really really
proud of that. I'm also thankful at the same time

(03:26):
that there are lots, millions and millions of non people
of color, non blacks, who will at least acknowledge what
has happened and will join in with us to help
rectify some of this. There are those out there who
are willing to help, and I appreciate that. I get it.

(03:46):
I'm not. This is not black people against all of America,
but we are against a system of systematic racism and injustice,
and it goes on and on and on. You can
look at the sentencing that's passed down. Do you know
we have more men in prison, more black men in
prison today than we had in slavery? Do you know

(04:08):
that at any one point, we have more black men
in prison today than we did in slavery. And you
know why, because the ju judicial system is set up
to put us in prison. Because listen to me, when
they come with these chargers, if you don't have the
lawyer to fight the chargers, they have a plea deal

(04:30):
for you. And the plea deal, because you know you
don't have the money for the lawyer, means if you
go to trial, you could get life, but you could
take this plea deal and take this thirty five and
go on over there and keep living. Do you know
how many people are in prison because of that? You
don't think that that's systematically set up to go that way.

(04:51):
You don't think that they put these people in prisons
because of that system that they use, that system that
prosecutors build careers based on on conviction rates, and they
know how to get a conviction because they'll give you
a lesser. I've seen listen, man, I was watching four
to eight hours. One time, they had so little evidence
on this guy. They had accused this guy of murdering someone.

(05:15):
Do you know that they couldn't put enough circumstantial evidence together?
But the kid couldn't take a chance and go to
prison that he took a He took a plea deal
second degree manslaughter and did five years for something he
ain't even do. He did five years for something he
didn't even do. You know how many men are in
prison doing some time for something they didn't even do
because the judicial system is set up that way, And

(05:37):
you know, it's just an exhausting thing. But we got
to be proud, and we're not gonna go about quietly.
We are going to vote. We are going to put
a stop to this unchecked imbalance of power. We're going
to put a stop to this egotistical maniac, this narcissist

(05:58):
of a human being who makes everything about him. How
petty can you be? And hold the why do you
have time? He couldn't even let Taylor Swift get married
last week without jumping in that posting stuff about that.
Who got time? You and I haven't posted one thing

(06:19):
this first time. I'd have mentioned the girl getting married,
just my life. I know he got more things to do.
So y'all just put ourselves together, patch yourself on the back,
get ready to go to the polls. We're gonna put
a stop to this Okay, you ain't gonna keep running
the same game, y'all. Enjoy yourself today. Talk to God.
He'd absolutely love to hear from him.

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