1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 1: Today's show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time. I 2 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: don't know. Y'all all suit giving them like the million 3 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: bucks things and it's tough, good together for st Please, 4 00:00:38,560 --> 00:01:42,119 Speaker 1: I don't join jot. Turn you gotta turn to turn out, 5 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: turn you got to turn out to turn turn the 6 00:01:46,959 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: water the water got come Come on your bad uh 7 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: huh I show win off. Come on and everybody you're 8 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: listening to the voice, come on dig me now. One 9 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Yoh man. 10 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: God is in the blessing business all day every day. 11 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: God got hundreds of millions of blessings that he passes 12 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 1: out every day. All I want to do is be 13 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: the recipient that I'm the recipient of what He has 14 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: for me. That's all I want. I just want God's favor, 15 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: and I go I want God's blessings. You know, of 16 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 1: course I need his mercy and his grace, but I 17 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: just want his blessings and his favor. I want. I 18 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: want that in my life because it does things for 19 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,640 Speaker 1: me that I'm absolutely incapable of doing for myself. And 20 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: I've been a recipient of many of those, and you 21 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: can be the recipient of them. Too. You already are, really, really, 22 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 1: you already are. If you're getting up every morning, that's 23 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: a blessing. If you're getting one day closer to anything 24 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 1: you're trying to accomplish, that's a blessing. But now let 25 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: me talk to you about this part right here, folks, 26 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 1: because this is the part that messages people up a 27 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: great deal. What happens when you get off track? What 28 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: is that? What does that mean? When you get off track? See, 29 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: I've been off track. I can't tell you how many times, 30 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: and it happens in so many aspects of your life. 31 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,839 Speaker 1: But what is it that makes getting off track so 32 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: debilitating to some people? You know, there are some people 33 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: who want stay off track. They off course, they off 34 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: the dream, they own to something else. And you cannot 35 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: allow the fact that you've gotten off track to stop. 36 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: You can't tell you something. Everybody gets off tracked. That 37 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: are people who are living their life's dreams in spite 38 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: of getting off track. See what happens when you get 39 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: off track? Here's the simple thing to do. The simple 40 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: thing is just to get back on track. Now that's 41 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: that's But that's easier said than done, ain't it, Steve? Yeah? 42 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,359 Speaker 1: Because see people when you get off track. Here's some 43 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: of the things that happened. See you get the here 44 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 1: come to nay sayers, some of them from the outside, 45 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: some of them internally. Here's what gets said when you 46 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: get off track. See, I told you, I told you, 47 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: you know you. You You start hearing that it's not 48 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: for you. Okay, this is all just because you got 49 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: off track. It's not for you. Okay, here's another one. 50 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: It ain't meant to be. You can hear it all, 51 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: you can say it. Well, I guess it's just not 52 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:10,039 Speaker 1: meant to be. But let me ask you a question, though, 53 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 1: who made the rule that when you get off track 54 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:20,039 Speaker 1: you can't get back on? Who made that rule? Where 55 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: has that written that once you get off track you 56 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: can't get back on? See, because I'm gonna tell you something, folks, 57 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: there's no such rule. As a matter of fact, it's 58 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: quite the opposite. See, everybody in pursuit of a dream, 59 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: a goal and aspiration or a mission, it's going to 60 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: get off track. Sometimes you're going to get derailed. They 61 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 1: are going to be days where you're not going to 62 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: get it right. That are going to be days where 63 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: you feel like giving up. There's going to be days 64 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 1: when you're just gonna flat out get it wrong. That's 65 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 1: the journey. But let me tell you something. Every successful 66 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: person that I know, ever met, talked to, set out, 67 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: and chopped it up with have shared one thing in common. 68 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: We all get off track. We all get it wrong 69 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 1: along the way. I don't care who the person is. 70 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 1: The president got it wrong along the way. Your pastor 71 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: got it wrong along the way. Qui Director Gui got 72 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 1: it wrong along the way. The principle at your school 73 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,160 Speaker 1: got it wrong along the way. The valor victoria of 74 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 1: your class got it wrong along the way. The star 75 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: of the team got it wrong along the way. They've 76 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: all been off track. Your boss down at your job, 77 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 1: he got it wrong along the way. Your immediate supervisor 78 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: got it wrong along the way. Everybody I know that 79 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 1: has any measure of success in every level that you 80 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 1: call success, however you want to label it, has gotten 81 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: off track. As a matter of fact, it's impossible. Listen 82 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 1: to me, it is impossible not to get off track 83 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: in pursuit of your dreams, goals, visions, aspirations. It is impossible. 84 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 1: Don't you let nobody tell you that they got through 85 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: life unscathed, that they made it because they was just 86 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: so determined and I would let nothing turn me back. Yeah, 87 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: you might not have let nothing turn you back because 88 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 1: you hear all but you thought about it. Oh you 89 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: thought about it on days when you was off track. 90 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: But see, people don't like to tell the whole story. 91 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: They just want you to think as much as you 92 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: can about them. So when they tell you their story, 93 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: they leave out the stuff alone. The way, it was 94 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 1: just hard work and determination that got me here. No 95 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: it wasn't, No, it wasn't. It was the fact that 96 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:00,040 Speaker 1: you got off track and the grace and mercy of 97 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: God allowed you to get back on. His forgiveness allowed 98 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: you to get back on because you would not believe 99 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: what some of the people have done. So when you 100 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: get off track, don't allow the naysayers outside and the 101 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: big naysayer inside, because let me tell you something, the 102 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: biggest naysayer of them all comes from inside. See, it 103 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: don't matter what other people say out there. It takes 104 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: some time for you to learn this. And I understand 105 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: because it took me some time to learn it. See, 106 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: I have a lot of naysayers out there, but I 107 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: ain't operating for them, operating function for the ones that 108 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: love me, for the ones that get me, for the 109 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: ones that understand what I'm really trying to do. And 110 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: so don't you be the one that doesn't allow yourself 111 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: to get back on track when you get off track, because, 112 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: like I said, who made the rule up that you 113 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 1: can't get back on track? There's no such rule out there. 114 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: Stop stopping yourself from getting it right. So what you 115 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: started to diet at the beginning of the year, and 116 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: you already off, start another one, start over, try it again, 117 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 1: don't ever stop trying. If you stop trying, you can't 118 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 1: make it. But if you never give up the effort, 119 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 1: if you never give up and say it's over, it 120 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: ain't over. You heard just saying it ain't over to 121 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 1: the fat ladies saying I never invite her. She's not invited. 122 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 1: It ain't over to the fat ladies saying I don't 123 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 1: know where the fat ladies stay. I am not sending 124 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: her an invitation to none of my events. She's not 125 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: welcome here. She didn't ask me a couple of times, 126 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 1: how come I never get invited? Because you're gonna start 127 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: saying it and I ain't got time for that, all right, 128 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: stop inviting the Fat Lady to all your events. Thank 129 00:09:56,280 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 1: you you're listening, Steve Harvey, Marty Shaw, live and well. 130 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: On this very very special email K Holiday, we celebrate 131 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: the life of one of our greatest leaders of all time, 132 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 1: Mark Luther King. Make no mistake about it, man, one 133 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,079 Speaker 1: of the great leaders we've had in our community. Did 134 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 1: so much for civil rights and the movement and all 135 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 1: things wrapped around that greatest or rator I've ever heard 136 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: one of them anyway, well, the greatest I've ever heard, 137 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: but anyway, just here to celebrate the life and times 138 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 1: and the things that he's done. Today day of celebration 139 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:39,319 Speaker 1: today off also, so congratulations for that and congratulates for 140 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: being recognized as a national holiday. That was a long 141 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: fight to get that done, especially in this country. Lord 142 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: know what that is, Charley Strawberry Colin for real Mouth 143 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,959 Speaker 1: of the South, Junior, boy and yourself were here about 144 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: to get it. Do it? Junior? What's going on? Man? 145 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 1: Hey man? It's Doctor King day. Man, what is your 146 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: favorite speech without doctor King? Oh, without doubt, I have 147 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:02,679 Speaker 1: a dream you know it was really at his death 148 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 1: in sixty eight, our teacher bought a television to school, 149 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: a black and white TV, and we watched the funeral 150 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 1: in school. And that was a period where I was 151 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: really not with the Martin Luther King doctrine at all 152 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 1: because when I came home when he got killed, my 153 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: mother and father were crying. My father came home from 154 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: work early, and I saw my mother and father stand 155 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:31,959 Speaker 1: in that crime. And I was a little boy. I 156 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:37,680 Speaker 1: didn't understand this. And my father said, man, white folks 157 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:41,960 Speaker 1: don't want us to have nothing. And you know, this 158 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: is an old black man talking right in nineteen sixty 159 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: eight who was born in nineteen fourteen. My father was 160 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 1: born in nineteen fourteen. So I want you to understand now, 161 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: just due right here and seen some things. So when 162 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 1: I so when I heard him say white folks don't 163 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 1: want us to have nothing, that affected me and my father, 164 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 1: my father just say, you know, little little black boys 165 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,959 Speaker 1: and little white girls in drawing hands. I just said, man, 166 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: they don't want us hold in their hand, they don't 167 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 1: want us to That affected me. So for a long time, 168 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:29,840 Speaker 1: a long time sounded on your experience, it was truth. Yeah, 169 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: I thought, I thought, And it took years and years 170 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,080 Speaker 1: and years, because you know, I went to all black Elementary, 171 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 1: all black Junior High all Black high school. It took 172 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: me a long time to run into cool white people. 173 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:52,839 Speaker 1: Understand that, man, I was before segregation, I mean, I 174 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: mean integration. I was before that was no busting. So 175 00:12:57,440 --> 00:12:59,959 Speaker 1: you're looking at a kid man that had to evolve 176 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. I grew up in a 177 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: time where what the statement my father made was ever 178 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: so true to me. It took me a long time. 179 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 1: And Martin Luther King listening for years after that was 180 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:12,440 Speaker 1: one of the things that brought me out of that. 181 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,560 Speaker 1: But I thought for a long time white people just 182 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: didn't like us, and and and and sad to say, 183 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: but there are moments where they take me right on 184 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 1: back to that some of the actions of some white 185 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: people today. Right now, yes, yes, right now, yes, all right. Well, 186 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: as we celebrate the life and legacy of doctor Martin 187 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:38,199 Speaker 1: Luther King. Coming up at thirty two minutes after the hour, 188 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 1: we'll place some highlights from doctor King's most famous speeches. 189 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: Right after this. You're listening right now, here's a drum 190 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: majorst speech on the Steve Harvey Morning Show. An instinct, 191 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: it's a kind of drum major instinct, a desire to 192 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 1: be out front, a desire to lead the parade, a 193 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:04,440 Speaker 1: desire to be first. It is something that runs a 194 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: whole gamut of life. And so before we condemn them, 195 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,960 Speaker 1: let us see that we all have the drum major instinct. 196 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: We all want to be important, to surpass others, to 197 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: achieve distinction, to lead the parade. Alfred Adler the Great, 198 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: a psychoanalyst, contends that this is the dominant impulse. Sigmund 199 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 1: Freud used to contend that sex was the dominant impulse, 200 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 1: and Adla came with a new argument, saying that this 201 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 1: quest for recognition, this desire for attention, this desire for distinction, 202 00:14:54,480 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: is the basic impulse, the basic drive of human human life, 203 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: this drum major instinct. And you know, we begin earlier 204 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: to ask life to put us first. Our first cry 205 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: as a baby was a bid for the tension, and 206 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 1: all through childhood the drum major impulse or instinct is 207 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: a major obsession. Children ask life to grant them first place. 208 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: They are a little bundle of ego. They have innately 209 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: the drum major instinct. Now an adult life, we still 210 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 1: have it and we really never get by it. We 211 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: like to do something good, and you know, we like 212 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: to be praise for it. Now, if you don't believe that, 213 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: you just go on living life, and you will discover 214 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 1: very soon that you like to be praised. Everybody likes it, 215 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: as a matter of fact. And somehow this warm glow 216 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: we feel when we are praised or when our name 217 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: is in print, is something of the vitamin aid to 218 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: our ego. Nobody is unhappy when they are praised, even 219 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: if they know they don't deserve it, and even if 220 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: they don't believe it. The only unhappy people about praise 221 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: is when that praise is going too much towards somebody else. 222 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 1: But everybody likes to be praised because of this real 223 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: drum major instinct. Do you know that a lot of 224 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 1: the race problem grows out of the drum major instinct. 225 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 1: A need that some people have to feel superior, a 226 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:15,120 Speaker 1: need that some people have to feel that they are first, 227 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: and to feel that their white skin ordained them to 228 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: be first. And they have said over and over the 229 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:32,879 Speaker 1: game in ways that we see with our own eyes. 230 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 1: In fact, not too long ago, a man down in 231 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:40,359 Speaker 1: Mississippis said that God was a child a member or 232 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:46,640 Speaker 1: the White Citizens Council, and so God being the child 233 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:50,719 Speaker 1: a member means that everybody who's in that has us 234 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 1: a kind of divinity, a kind of superiority. And think 235 00:17:55,359 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: of what has happening historism as a result, this perverted 236 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: use of the drum mate instinct led to the most 237 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: tragic prejudice, the most tragic expressions of man's inhumanity to man. 238 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: I mean, not only does this thing going too, the 239 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 1: racial struggle goes into the struggle between nations. And I 240 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:25,080 Speaker 1: would submit to you this morning that what is wrong 241 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 1: in the world today is that the nations of the 242 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 1: world engaged in a bitter, colossal contest for supremacy, and 243 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: some doesn't having to stop this trend. I'm sorely afred 244 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 1: that we won't be here to talk about Jesus Christ 245 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 1: and about God and about brotherhood too many more years. 246 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:53,920 Speaker 1: Somebody done bringing into this suicidal thrust that we see 247 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 1: in the world today. None of us are going to 248 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: be around because some body is gonna make the mistake, 249 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 1: through our senseless blunderings, of dropping a nuclear bomb somewhere, 250 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: and then another one is gonna drop. And don't let 251 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: anybody fool you, this can happen within a matter of seconds. 252 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: They have twenty megaton bombs in Russia right now. That 253 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:21,919 Speaker 1: can destroy US city as big as New York in 254 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:25,919 Speaker 1: three seconds with everybody ripe away in every building, And 255 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: we can do the same thing to Russian China. But 256 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,120 Speaker 1: this is why we are drifted, and we are drifting 257 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 1: now because nations are caught up with the drum Major instinct. 258 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 1: I must be first, I must be supreme all a 259 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 1: nation must rule the world. I am sad to say 260 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 1: that the nation in which we live is the supreme culprit. 261 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna continue to say it to America because 262 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 1: I love this country too much to see the drift 263 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 1: that it has taken. God didn't call America to do 264 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: what she's doing in the world now. God didn't call 265 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: America to engage in a senseless, unjust war as a 266 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,360 Speaker 1: war in Vietnam, and we are criminals in that war. 267 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,879 Speaker 1: We've committed more war crimes almost than any nation in 268 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 1: the world. And I'm going to continue to say it, 269 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: and we won't stop it because of our pride, and 270 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 1: I aracan sans the nation. But God has a way 271 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:33,720 Speaker 1: of even put nations in that place. Doctor Mark Luther 272 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 1: King Junior's speech to drum Major instinct speech. It was 273 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,679 Speaker 1: actually delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, on 274 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: February fourth, nineteen sixty eight. Doctor Mark Luther King Junior 275 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 1: encouraged everybody to participate in community service. You're listening show, 276 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,360 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the ride. We will continue with more 277 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 1: of doctor Kings the drum major instinct speech. Nobody is 278 00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 1: unhappy when they are praised, even if they know they 279 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: don't deserve it, and even if they don't believe it. 280 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: The only unhappy people about praise is when that praise 281 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 1: is going too much towards somebody else. But everybody likes 282 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:20,959 Speaker 1: to be praised because of this real drum major instinct. 283 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,959 Speaker 1: Do you know that a lot of the race problem 284 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: grows out of the drum major instinct? A need that 285 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: some people have to feel superior, A need that some 286 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:41,159 Speaker 1: people have to feel that they are first, and to 287 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: feel that their white skin ordain them to be first. 288 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 1: They have said over and over the game in ways 289 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 1: that we see with our own eyes. In fact, not 290 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 1: too long with or a man down in Mississippis said 291 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,520 Speaker 1: that God was a child, a member or the white 292 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:15,159 Speaker 1: citizens Council, and so God being the child a member 293 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 1: means that everybody who's in that has us a kind 294 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 1: of divinity, a kind of superiority. And think of what 295 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 1: has happened in histories as a result, this perverted use 296 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 1: of the drum mage instinct led to the most tragic prejudice, 297 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:40,440 Speaker 1: the most tragic expressions of man's inhumanity to man. I mean, 298 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: not only does this thing go into the racial struggle, 299 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:51,119 Speaker 1: goes into the struggle between nations. And I would submit 300 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: to you this morning that what is wrong in the 301 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: world today is that the nations of the world engaged 302 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 1: in a bitter, colossal contest for supremacy, and some doesn't 303 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: having to stop this trend. I'm sorely afred that we 304 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,439 Speaker 1: won't be here to talk about Jesus Christ and about 305 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 1: God and about brotherhood too many more years. Somebody done 306 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:23,359 Speaker 1: bringing into this suicide thrust that we see in the 307 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:28,640 Speaker 1: world today. None of us are gonna be around because 308 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 1: somebody is gonna make the mistakes through our senseless blunderings 309 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,920 Speaker 1: of dropping a nuclear bomb somewhere, and then another one 310 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: is gonna drop. And don't let anybody fool you. Oh, 311 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,159 Speaker 1: this can happen within a matter of seconds. They have 312 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 1: twenty megaton bombs in Russia right now that can destroy 313 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,360 Speaker 1: US city as big as New York in three seconds 314 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: with everybody ripe away in every building, and we can 315 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,639 Speaker 1: do the same thing to Russian China. But this is 316 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: why we are drifted, and we are drifting now because 317 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 1: nations are caught up with the German major instinct. I 318 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: must be first, I must be supreme. Our a nation 319 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: must rule the world. And I am sad to say 320 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:19,439 Speaker 1: that the nation in which we live is the supreme culprit. 321 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,920 Speaker 1: And I'm going to continue to say it to America 322 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,159 Speaker 1: because I love this country too much to see the 323 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: drift that it has taken. God didn't call America to 324 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,959 Speaker 1: do what she's doing in the world now. God didn't 325 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:40,920 Speaker 1: call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war as 326 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: a war in Vietnam, and we are criminals in that war. 327 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 1: We have committed more war crimes almost than any nation 328 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,479 Speaker 1: in the world. And I'm going to continue to say it, 329 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:55,399 Speaker 1: and we won't stop it because of our pride, and 330 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:59,120 Speaker 1: I arrogant, says the nation. But God has a way 331 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:02,359 Speaker 1: of even putting nation in that place. The God that 332 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 1: I worship has a way of saying, don't play with me. 333 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,639 Speaker 1: He has a way of saying. Is the God of 334 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: the Old Testament used to say the Hebrews, don't play 335 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: with me Israel, don't play with Smith Babylon. Be still 336 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 1: and know that I'm God. If you don't stuff your 337 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:31,399 Speaker 1: reckless course, I'll rise up and break the backbone of 338 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:37,680 Speaker 1: your power. That can happen to America. Every nine then 339 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 1: I go back and read Gibbons Decline and fall of 340 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: the Roman Empire. And when I come and look at America, 341 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:49,919 Speaker 1: I say to myself, the parallels are frightening. We have 342 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:57,160 Speaker 1: perverted the drum made instinct. Every nine then I guess 343 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 1: we all think realistically, yes, about that day when we 344 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: will be victimized with what is life's final common denominator. 345 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:16,679 Speaker 1: That's something we call death. We all think about it. 346 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: Then every nine then I think about my own death, 347 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,400 Speaker 1: and I think about my own funeral, and I don't 348 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:27,680 Speaker 1: think of it in a morbid sense. Every nine then 349 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 1: I asked myself what is it that I would want 350 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:35,199 Speaker 1: to say? And I leave the word to you this morning. 351 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,199 Speaker 1: If any of you are wrong, when I have to 352 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:45,439 Speaker 1: meet my day, I don't want a long funeral and 353 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,239 Speaker 1: if you get somebody to deliver the unite, you tell 354 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: him not to talk to you long every nine, then 355 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: I wonder well I want him to say. Tell him 356 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 1: not to letchen that I have a nobel peace pride. 357 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 1: That isn't important. Tell him not to mention that I 358 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: have three or four hundred of awards. That's not important. 359 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 1: Tell him about to mention where I went to school. 360 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 1: I like somebody to mention that day that Mardin Luther 361 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:18,159 Speaker 1: King Junior tried to give his life serving of us. 362 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,879 Speaker 1: I'd like for somebody to say that day that Mardein 363 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:26,159 Speaker 1: Luther King Junior tried to love somebody. I want you 364 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: to say that day that I tried to be right 365 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: on the wall question. I want you to be able 366 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:36,359 Speaker 1: to see that day that I did try to feed 367 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 1: the hungry. I want you to be able to say 368 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 1: that day that I did try in my life to 369 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: close those who were naked. I want you to say 370 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: on that day that I did try in my life 371 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:53,359 Speaker 1: to physicals who were imprisoned. I want you to say 372 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:59,200 Speaker 1: that I tried to love and serve humanity. Yes, if 373 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 1: you want to say that I was a drum major, 374 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: say that I was a drum major for justice, say 375 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,919 Speaker 1: that I was a drum major for peace. I was 376 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,400 Speaker 1: a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other 377 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 1: shall of things will nothing matter. I won't have any 378 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:21,719 Speaker 1: money to leave behind, I won't have the fine and 379 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just 380 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: want to leave I'll committed life behind, and that's all 381 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 1: I want to say. If I can help somebody as 382 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a 383 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 1: world a song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, 384 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: then my living will not be in vain. If I 385 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: can do my duty as a Christian arc, if I 386 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: can bring salvation to a war who wants wrote, if 387 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 1: I can spread the message as the Master talk, then 388 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: my living we'll not be in vain. You're listening to 389 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: today's MLK Day. It is a day of service. Reverend 390 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior devoted his life to service 391 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 1: and fighting for civil rights and freedom. Doctor King had 392 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 1: a pursuit for racial, social, and economic justice. And Steve, 393 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 1: I got to ask you this question. Uh, you know 394 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: you talk about this a lot. You talked about it 395 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 1: earlier this morning. You've been through a lot growing up, 396 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,920 Speaker 1: so How have you learned to deal with racism? How 397 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: how have you dealt with it? I mean, look, I 398 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: mean pretty much like most people. I mean, I'm angry 399 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 1: about it. I don't I don't understand what's taken so long. 400 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 1: It just it doesn't make any sense to me. It's 401 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: it's actually pathetic. Why is it in twenty twenty three 402 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 1: that people of color are still asking for equality, which 403 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 1: seems like we're asking it from from from somebody that's 404 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 1: not willing to give it. I mean, it's just obviously 405 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,960 Speaker 1: that there are people who are set in their ways, 406 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 1: and it's frustrating now we Even with that said, I 407 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: have devoted myself to being the best person that I 408 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 1: can be, to elevate myself as high as I can, 409 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 1: but not only elevate myself, stick my hand back down 410 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 1: the wall and bring up as many people as I can, 411 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 1: thus my foundation, thus my ranch, Thus me trying to 412 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: promote young people, thus helping people. I'm constantly looking for 413 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: ways to uplift the the oppressed, the downtrodden people, and 414 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: and that carries over into all people too. And that's 415 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 1: what's been crazy about it. Man. I'm willing to help 416 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,960 Speaker 1: all people now do I have a special affinity and 417 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 1: do I target mostly people of color? Yeah? Yeah, do that. 418 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: And I was talking to one guy one day and 419 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 1: he said, well, how can you just target them? I said, whoa, 420 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 1: that's where I see the most need. I see the 421 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,800 Speaker 1: most need in people of color and oppressed people. So 422 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 1: I'm targeting my efforts. I said, you know, now, look, 423 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: it's all types of people come to the camp. Anybody 424 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: can come to the camp here. Asians are oppressed, they 425 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 1: walcome at the camp. All Latinos come to my camp. 426 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 1: They wasn't I got white kids come to the camp. Yeah, 427 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 1: you know, I got all of them. Diversity. But you know, 428 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: you can't get mad at me because I know where 429 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,920 Speaker 1: the greater need is and I can see it more obviously, 430 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 1: and it's my obligation because if the government not gonna 431 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 1: do it, and they're trying to cut state funding and 432 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,959 Speaker 1: they're not gonna do it, well, let's just look at 433 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,400 Speaker 1: this right here. For example, let's just look at the 434 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,520 Speaker 1: education disparity in this country. Why do we have an 435 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 1: educational disparity Because the money on the federal level that 436 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 1: we pay in taxes and we pay state taxes, local taxes, 437 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: it all goes into a fund. Now, the areas that 438 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 1: pay the most funds into the state taxes or the 439 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,680 Speaker 1: federal taxes are the places that receive the most money back. 440 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,680 Speaker 1: Poor places are not gonna have as big a pool 441 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 1: to pick from, so poor places stay behind the eight ball. 442 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,920 Speaker 1: It's the system they set up. See, they set that 443 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 1: system up, not me. So what should be happening is 444 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 1: we should as a country make sure that all people 445 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:49,040 Speaker 1: have access to a quality education and a free education. 446 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 1: And that ain't the American way. That ain't the American way. 447 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 1: But that's why we're losing education wise on a global 448 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 1: level because other countries they don't. They don't do it 449 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,920 Speaker 1: that way. We should all be able to we make 450 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,080 Speaker 1: enough money in this country where everybody should get free 451 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:13,240 Speaker 1: medical there's a business we don't get that, right. But 452 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,160 Speaker 1: this is the system they set up. And the system 453 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 1: is not set up and targeted for the underprivileged or 454 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 1: the oppressed, well, the less fortunate, that's right. So it's 455 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,000 Speaker 1: not set up that way. So my obligation to my 456 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:31,480 Speaker 1: foundation is fun the less fortunate, the oppressed, the downtrod 457 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,080 Speaker 1: and I go out of my way to see that 458 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,360 Speaker 1: that happens. But you know we're gonna win. It's just 459 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,440 Speaker 1: sad that it's taken so damn long, and it it 460 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 1: pisses you off. And I would say this to anybody 461 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:50,840 Speaker 1: who is not of color. How long would you like 462 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:56,160 Speaker 1: to wait to be treated equal? How much time you 463 00:33:56,240 --> 00:34:01,800 Speaker 1: want to devote to same treatment, equal fastness in housing? 464 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,480 Speaker 1: How would you like it if every time you cut 465 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:10,439 Speaker 1: on the news the police were shooting somebody who looked 466 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:14,359 Speaker 1: like you? How long? How long you want us to wait? 467 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm listening. It can't be much. And I 468 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:19,839 Speaker 1: don't I don't know the white lady's name that asked 469 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,520 Speaker 1: that famous question to a room full of white people, 470 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,319 Speaker 1: who in here would be willing to trade places with 471 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:34,200 Speaker 1: black people? Who? Elliot? Yeah, Jane um Jane Elliott. And 472 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:39,280 Speaker 1: she says, because you know that they are being treated unfamily, 473 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,360 Speaker 1: but that nobody's doing anything about it. So we have 474 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 1: to do it ourselves. We have to do this ourselves. 475 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,040 Speaker 1: We have to keep picking ourselves up. That old pull 476 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 1: yourself up by the bootstraps. Yeah, that's cool, except a 477 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,080 Speaker 1: lot of people don't have the boots or the straps. 478 00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,480 Speaker 1: So you gotta keep the faith and we gotta reach 479 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,120 Speaker 1: back and we to help as many as we can. 480 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 1: And it's so interesting that you asked the question, Steve, 481 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,239 Speaker 1: how long, because as we celebrate doctor Martin Luther King 482 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 1: that was in the sixties, that was in the sixties. 483 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:15,319 Speaker 1: I ain't patient. I'm out of patience. I'm done with 484 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 1: you talking about waiting. I ain't waiting no more. H See, 485 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,439 Speaker 1: people are hit the wall now. People, whether you ain't 486 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,160 Speaker 1: gonna give it, we're gonna take it. I'm exapt being exhausted. 487 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,839 Speaker 1: I'm overwhelmed. I'm sick and tired of it. And and 488 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,480 Speaker 1: we are people of color are sick and tired of it. 489 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:35,920 Speaker 1: And you would be too if it was happening to you. 490 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:37,719 Speaker 1: But it ain't happening to you, so you ain't gonna 491 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,440 Speaker 1: be sick and tired up that far. And we'll have 492 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,160 Speaker 1: more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show as we celebrate 493 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,680 Speaker 1: the life and legacy of doctor Martin Luther King Junior 494 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:52,600 Speaker 1: right after this. You're listening show. Well, today is MLK Day, 495 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:58,920 Speaker 1: and tomorrow tomorrow's Steve Harvey's Wow Steve sixty sixth birthday. 496 00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:08,040 Speaker 1: Whoa six six six yes six s wow? Yeah. You 497 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:11,000 Speaker 1: can call Steven's voicemail at eight seven seven twenty nine, 498 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,839 Speaker 1: Steve eight seven seven twenty nine, Steven, leave him your 499 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 1: birthday shout outs. You never know we could play your 500 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,799 Speaker 1: birthday shout out on the air. Okay, Steve, I know 501 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,640 Speaker 1: you have big plans for your birthday tomorrow. What's happening now? 502 00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:25,239 Speaker 1: I don't know. I had just wait to see what 503 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,839 Speaker 1: your wife gonna do. But you know you get your 504 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:35,959 Speaker 1: kicks on around sixty six. Look at claiming. I'm yeah, 505 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,960 Speaker 1: somebody told man, you getting old? Yeah, old is the gold. 506 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:44,800 Speaker 1: If you don't like getting old, you ended. Yeah, you 507 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,840 Speaker 1: can get any minute now. But you do know you 508 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:52,919 Speaker 1: won't be here for next Christmas. And it's man, it's 509 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,200 Speaker 1: just like wow, it's just like crazy. Man. Sixty six, 510 00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,359 Speaker 1: that's a big number. Blessing, that's a big number. Man, 511 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:07,600 Speaker 1: that's a big number. This I probably feel more blessed 512 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:12,200 Speaker 1: this one than anyone before. And because I lost so 513 00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:19,399 Speaker 1: many partners, many I lost, I lost some boys this year. 514 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:29,560 Speaker 1: Man that broke my heart. Will Horton que from Poland 515 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 1: Green toutely do is my best friend. Marvel is marveln 516 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:37,560 Speaker 1: Horton's brother. We all Horton flipped Bass, my special and 517 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:41,080 Speaker 1: frat he passed. He was just at my house for 518 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,400 Speaker 1: the big round up we do for a bunch of queues. 519 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,640 Speaker 1: He was at my house. Then the next year we 520 00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:49,680 Speaker 1: had it at my ranch. He wasn't. Now, so you know, 521 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,160 Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of us, a lot of cats, 522 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,520 Speaker 1: is dealing with health issues, and so this year was 523 00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,480 Speaker 1: probably this is my one of my most grateful years, 524 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,600 Speaker 1: because you know, as we age, you know, I got 525 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,359 Speaker 1: some health things. I'm grappling with two. You know, I'm 526 00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:09,160 Speaker 1: just the body been. You know, I was watching a video. 527 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,279 Speaker 1: Always says, you know, have if you ever noticed when 528 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,080 Speaker 1: you look at older couples, the woman is always a 529 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,640 Speaker 1: little bit most pride chipper than the man. The man 530 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 1: is always dragging behind. The woman always looks a little 531 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,799 Speaker 1: bit more spride chipper in the real old couple. That's 532 00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:28,440 Speaker 1: because that man has been grinding. And he says, when 533 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:33,799 Speaker 1: you've been grinding, grinding means to wear down something. You know, 534 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,880 Speaker 1: if you grind your teeth, if you grind two pieces 535 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,520 Speaker 1: of stone together, you ground the corn meal. He's grind 536 00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:43,680 Speaker 1: you grinding. He said, that's that's hard. Man, and a 537 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:47,880 Speaker 1: lot of men man just suffer from being in the grind, 538 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:52,600 Speaker 1: and I've been grinding, man, I have. I've been grinding. 539 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:57,279 Speaker 1: There's a there's a price for for success. There's a 540 00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,279 Speaker 1: price for poverty. You know. It's sort of funny. I 541 00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,040 Speaker 1: want I'm gonna touch on that a little bit later 542 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:04,880 Speaker 1: on today. I'm gonna touch on that a little bit 543 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,480 Speaker 1: late on. All right, Steve, all right, coming up at 544 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,920 Speaker 1: thirty two minutes after the hour, we'll have more on 545 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,920 Speaker 1: this King holiday right after this. You're listening to the 546 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:19,960 Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Morning Show. The late great Civil Rights icon. 547 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,360 Speaker 1: State Representative John Lewis spoke at the March on Washington 548 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:27,040 Speaker 1: back in nineteen sixty three, and then he spoke at 549 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,920 Speaker 1: the fiftieth anniversary March on Washington back in two thousand 550 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:38,560 Speaker 1: and fifteen. Take a listen, fifty years ago, fifty years ago. 551 00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:45,240 Speaker 1: I stood right here in this spot, twenty three years old, 552 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,520 Speaker 1: head all of my hair, and I feel bines light off. 553 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:54,640 Speaker 1: So I come back here again, just said at those 554 00:39:54,800 --> 00:40:01,480 Speaker 1: days for the most part a gone. But we have 555 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:06,560 Speaker 1: another fight. We must stand up and fight the good 556 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:11,200 Speaker 1: fight as we march today. But their forces, their people 557 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,120 Speaker 1: who wanna take us back, we cannot go back. We 558 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:21,880 Speaker 1: come too far we want to go forward. Back in 559 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:26,680 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, hundreds and thousand and millions of our 560 00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:31,640 Speaker 1: brothers and sisters couldnt register to vote. When I stood 561 00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:36,160 Speaker 1: here fifty years ago, I said, one man, one vote 562 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:40,200 Speaker 1: is African cry. It is ours tool. It must be ours. 563 00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:45,600 Speaker 1: I also said, some people tell us to wait, tell 564 00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,719 Speaker 1: us to be patient. I said, fifty years later, we 565 00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:54,000 Speaker 1: cannot wait. We cannot be patient. We want jobs and 566 00:40:54,120 --> 00:41:00,520 Speaker 1: we want our freedom. Now, all of us, it doesn't 567 00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:04,440 Speaker 1: matter whether we are black or white, Latino Asian America 568 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:08,560 Speaker 1: or Native American. It doesn't matter whether we are straight. Again, 569 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,480 Speaker 1: we are one people. We are one family, We are 570 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:16,640 Speaker 1: one house. We all live in the same house. So 571 00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:22,160 Speaker 1: I said to you, my brothers and sisters, we cannot 572 00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:27,799 Speaker 1: give up. We cannot give out, We cannot give in. 573 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:32,640 Speaker 1: We must get out there and push and pull them. Now. 574 00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:36,439 Speaker 1: I a few short years ago, almost for the eight 575 00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:40,759 Speaker 1: years ago, well for their years ago, almost fiftree years ago, 576 00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,080 Speaker 1: I gave a little blood on that bridge and sell 577 00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:48,200 Speaker 1: my Alabama for the right to vote. I am not 578 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:52,200 Speaker 1: gonna stand by and let the Supreme Court take the 579 00:41:52,360 --> 00:42:00,000 Speaker 1: right to vote away from us. You cannot stand by. 580 00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:04,879 Speaker 1: You cannot sit down. You got to stand up, speak up, 581 00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:10,040 Speaker 1: speak out, and get in the way, make some noise. 582 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:20,840 Speaker 1: The vote is precious, it is almost sacred. It is 583 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:26,600 Speaker 1: the most powerful non violent tool be having a democratic society, 584 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:31,600 Speaker 1: and we got to use it. Back in nineteen sixty three, 585 00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:36,680 Speaker 1: we hadn't heard of the internet. We didn't have well 586 00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:40,760 Speaker 1: sell your telephone, I pad our part. But we used 587 00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:44,200 Speaker 1: what we had to bring about a non violent revolution. 588 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,160 Speaker 1: And I said to all of the young people, you 589 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,160 Speaker 1: must get out there and push and pull and make 590 00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:57,960 Speaker 1: America what America should be for all of us. We 591 00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:02,400 Speaker 1: must sit to the Congress, fix the voting right side. 592 00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:08,400 Speaker 1: We must set to the Congress past comprehensive immigration reform. 593 00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:12,239 Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense that million of our people are 594 00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:16,680 Speaker 1: living in the shadow. Bring them out into the light 595 00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:21,719 Speaker 1: and set them on a path to citizenship. So hanging there, 596 00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:27,000 Speaker 1: keep the faith. I got the rest of forty times 597 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:32,080 Speaker 1: during the sixties beating enough, bloody and unconscious. But I'm 598 00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:36,640 Speaker 1: not tied, I'm not weary. I'm not prepared to sit 599 00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:39,560 Speaker 1: down and give up. I'm ready at the fight and 600 00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:44,360 Speaker 1: continue to fight. And you must fight. Thank you very much, 601 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:51,200 Speaker 1: you're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show, Happy King Holiday. On 602 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:56,160 Speaker 1: January sixth, about ten days ago, President Biden awarded the 603 00:43:56,160 --> 00:44:00,040 Speaker 1: Presidential Citizens Medal, the country's second highest honor, to the 604 00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:04,600 Speaker 1: heroes who defended the US capital during the January sixth insurrection. 605 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:09,440 Speaker 1: According to MSN dot com, these honorees included Capitol police 606 00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,960 Speaker 1: officers and two election workers from Georgia who refused former 607 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,719 Speaker 1: President Donald Trump's pressure to overturn the results of the 608 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:20,600 Speaker 1: twenty twenty elections. Three of the medals were awarded posthumously 609 00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,000 Speaker 1: to the families of police officers who died in the 610 00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:27,280 Speaker 1: days after the attack, and President Biden told the honorees quote, 611 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:31,520 Speaker 1: history will remember your names, remember your courage, and remember 612 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:36,200 Speaker 1: your bravery. We are we all were just so proud 613 00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:40,240 Speaker 1: of the US Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman, the brother 614 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:44,040 Speaker 1: who diverted the invading writers and domestic terrorists from the 615 00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,880 Speaker 1: Senate Chamber. Take a listen to the moment when he 616 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:54,200 Speaker 1: was awarded his Presidential Citizens Medal. An Army combat veteran 617 00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:58,680 Speaker 1: and a US Capitol Police officer, Eugene Goodman embodies fearless 618 00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:02,920 Speaker 1: public service in the breach on January sixth, twenty twenty one, 619 00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:07,040 Speaker 1: He made himself a target to divert insurrectionists away from 620 00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:11,279 Speaker 1: the Senate Chamber, enabling the former Vice president, lawmakers, and 621 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,839 Speaker 1: staff to escape safely in the face of a clear 622 00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:17,600 Speaker 1: and present danger. He did his duty. You know what, 623 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,200 Speaker 1: you know what about that? That's amazing to me that 624 00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:29,440 Speaker 1: in this country that steel hasn't been total justice for 625 00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:33,160 Speaker 1: what has what happened on that day. That's right, you know, 626 00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:37,200 Speaker 1: that's right, right, that steel hasn't been total justice two 627 00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,720 Speaker 1: years ago. Yes, but I can't tell you for a fact, 628 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:47,759 Speaker 1: had those rioters been black, you would have seen one 629 00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:52,680 Speaker 1: of the biggest slaughters of human life rushing in the 630 00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:57,359 Speaker 1: Capitol like that. Yeah, Donald Trump has steal yet to 631 00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:01,200 Speaker 1: answer or pay for his role in it. If Obama 632 00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:09,520 Speaker 1: was president and had made that speech before the rioters 633 00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:13,239 Speaker 1: went down to Capitol, how do you how do you 634 00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,440 Speaker 1: think this would have played out in work area? And 635 00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,520 Speaker 1: you know for Donald Trump not to be paying a price? 636 00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:22,640 Speaker 1: Nyis now I have noticed. I don't know if you've noticed, 637 00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:26,480 Speaker 1: but Fox Rupert Murdoch has said he would not support 638 00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:31,000 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's bid. So now Fox, oh they didn't. Had 639 00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:37,160 Speaker 1: Hannity and Tucker Carson come and so now they now 640 00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,560 Speaker 1: they're saying, we knew all along he lost the election. 641 00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:47,919 Speaker 1: Also it's a lie. Oh oh, now they're they're they're 642 00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:51,319 Speaker 1: coming out because they got depositions. Now they say they 643 00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,240 Speaker 1: knew it all along, that he had lost the election. 644 00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:59,120 Speaker 1: Oh Hannity, his main boy pulling out, Tucker Carson. They're 645 00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:02,239 Speaker 1: pulling back these depositions that they got, these boys saying 646 00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:06,320 Speaker 1: that see CNN, don't tell him, don't they don't fight fair, 647 00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,239 Speaker 1: they they they you know, they see and then try 648 00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:13,439 Speaker 1: and fight like they Christians. That ain't what Fox doing. 649 00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:21,280 Speaker 1: Fox fighting. We need to fight dog like we did evil. Yeah, 650 00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:23,719 Speaker 1: a ball with some nails on the end of it, 651 00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:27,760 Speaker 1: that's how Fox fight. And you know those two election 652 00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:35,080 Speaker 1: workers that won the Presidential Citizens Medal Awards all of that, 653 00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:39,200 Speaker 1: and Mom is still talking about them on his little 654 00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,319 Speaker 1: social media and listen to me how he ain't being 655 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:47,800 Speaker 1: hell responsible this now Foxton pulled their support from this dude. 656 00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:53,480 Speaker 1: But man, I'm telling you, it's we're such a hypocritical nation. 657 00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:58,160 Speaker 1: This country. Man, this country makes me sick at times 658 00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:01,279 Speaker 1: when we won't do the right, which has been making 659 00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:04,319 Speaker 1: me sick for quite some time now. It's a wonder man. 660 00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:08,680 Speaker 1: I ain't just I'm surprised. I'm still here, sick as 661 00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:15,520 Speaker 1: I'm in. I've been sicking. I don't know what I got, 662 00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:20,879 Speaker 1: but I got something. Yeah, thank god, man, he ain't 663 00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:23,000 Speaker 1: took me out with this because I've been sicking this 664 00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:26,040 Speaker 1: for a long time. It's just amazing, man, And that 665 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:31,160 Speaker 1: Marl Luther King's speech and his day. We still are 666 00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:39,640 Speaker 1: grappling and wrestling with equality. Yes, yes, we're still grappling 667 00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:44,120 Speaker 1: with voter suppression. You know, Dave standing out of voting 668 00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:48,120 Speaker 1: places with fire hoses and guard dogs no more. But 669 00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:55,920 Speaker 1: they got other ways now. Yeah, they're still trying to suppress. 670 00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,480 Speaker 1: So and with all of that, we still have so 671 00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:02,239 Speaker 1: very far to go. You know, I'm very proud of 672 00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,600 Speaker 1: the accomplishments that a lot of us have made. I'm 673 00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,040 Speaker 1: proud of a lot of families that's out there that's 674 00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:10,640 Speaker 1: doing well. You know, Grant car Don't said something over 675 00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,960 Speaker 1: the holidays that if a man is making less than 676 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,400 Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars a year for his family, he 677 00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:18,799 Speaker 1: ought to be ashamed of himself. And I just looked 678 00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:22,239 Speaker 1: at this, dude. No, wait, man, what No, you didn't 679 00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:24,279 Speaker 1: Oh that was a big That was a big bloke. 680 00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,280 Speaker 1: Grant car don't said if you're not making four hundred thousand, 681 00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:31,239 Speaker 1: and I went, whoa dude? The hold up? Man? If 682 00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:35,279 Speaker 1: you if you're taking care of your family? Yes, yeah, right, 683 00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:39,160 Speaker 1: if you're taking care of your family, I don't give it. 684 00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:41,399 Speaker 1: Dare what you make. You're doing what you're supposed to do, 685 00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:44,320 Speaker 1: and you deserve a medal for being a man. Grant 686 00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:47,319 Speaker 1: didn't say that nowhere off our Luke King Diddy, Bro 687 00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:49,919 Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars year? Do you know how many people? 688 00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:53,360 Speaker 1: But Bro, Bro, you how much money that that is? 689 00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:57,120 Speaker 1: Though that's a lot of money? Proud the average American 690 00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:01,160 Speaker 1: don't do that. No, I have a person does not 691 00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:03,520 Speaker 1: do that for you to make that statement. I don't 692 00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:06,239 Speaker 1: know what he was trying to say, and I haven't 693 00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:08,440 Speaker 1: heard him iss your rebuttal yet, but I thought that 694 00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:12,919 Speaker 1: was just like, man, how idiotic can you beat out 695 00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:20,520 Speaker 1: of touch privilege that you are? Yes, that's that's right, 696 00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:24,120 Speaker 1: that I was living pretty good without four hundred thousand dollars. 697 00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:26,960 Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie to you. And many families of 698 00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:32,960 Speaker 1: four do you know my father? The most he made 699 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,960 Speaker 1: I think was fifty six thousand a year. I was big. 700 00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:40,680 Speaker 1: That's that's good money. Yeah, that is today, that's good money. 701 00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:44,680 Speaker 1: We're balled at year. Yeah, we were ball all of 702 00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:49,520 Speaker 1: we balled at you at two pair of Jimmies. I 703 00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:55,560 Speaker 1: just got Wawa, Man, I found Dog. I bought my 704 00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:57,360 Speaker 1: first pair of gym shoes that was in the box 705 00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,960 Speaker 1: that wasn't tied together in and not on a table 706 00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,600 Speaker 1: able in the produce section at the grocery store. I 707 00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:04,480 Speaker 1: remember the first pair of gym shoes I got that 708 00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:07,880 Speaker 1: was in a box. Dog. I put them shoes in 709 00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:11,799 Speaker 1: that box every night. Yeah, take care of them. You 710 00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:17,359 Speaker 1: were a good steward. Yeah, and it was Yes, your 711 00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:19,880 Speaker 1: daddy was there, your mama was there, your sisters and 712 00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:22,799 Speaker 1: brothers and was family. Dog got bike for Christmas. What 713 00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:31,000 Speaker 1: you're talking about, what you are rich, live, good, bless Yes, Yes, 714 00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:35,719 Speaker 1: you know, man, you have got to appreciate where you are. Yes, 715 00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,120 Speaker 1: And you know, even myself, man, I've really had to 716 00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:42,320 Speaker 1: rethink my goals and aspirations. I still have high goals 717 00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,840 Speaker 1: and aspirations, but I've started to focus more on to 718 00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:51,719 Speaker 1: where I am and show way more gratitude for where 719 00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:55,040 Speaker 1: I am as opposed to where I want to be 720 00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,840 Speaker 1: where I want to be. Dreams and visions you gotta have. 721 00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:01,399 Speaker 1: But man, I'm way more grateful. I'm glad I came 722 00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:04,800 Speaker 1: to that too. Yeah, and the moment, that's good And 723 00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:08,280 Speaker 1: just Steph, why I Steve. The destruction the Rioters cause 724 00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:12,480 Speaker 1: was one point five million dollars okay, one point five 725 00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:16,320 Speaker 1: million dollars in damages. That's according to the US Attorney's 726 00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:19,360 Speaker 1: Office for the District of Columbia. Several of the accused 727 00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:23,400 Speaker 1: participants have either been convicted or are awaiting trial. The 728 00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:27,280 Speaker 1: number of federal indictments against individuals accused of being involved 729 00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:30,920 Speaker 1: in the Capitol Capitol Hill siege stands at nine hundred 730 00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:35,800 Speaker 1: and forty as of January fifth of this year. Unbelievable. 731 00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:39,239 Speaker 1: They all need to be in jail, Yes they do, 732 00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,920 Speaker 1: including Donald Trump. Yes, yes, their leading Now coming up, 733 00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:45,160 Speaker 1: coming up at the top of the hour, we'll have 734 00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:48,840 Speaker 1: more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show on this King Holiday. 735 00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:53,879 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Doctor Martin 736 00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:57,080 Speaker 1: Luther King Junior once said that life's most persistent and 737 00:52:57,239 --> 00:53:01,120 Speaker 1: urgent question is what are you doing for others? Coming up, 738 00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,440 Speaker 1: we got some excerpts from doctor Kings. I've been to 739 00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:08,160 Speaker 1: the mountaintop. Speech. Let us rise up tonight with a 740 00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:17,040 Speaker 1: greater readiness in these powerful days, These days a challenge 741 00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:22,520 Speaker 1: to make America what it ought to be. We have 742 00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:27,400 Speaker 1: an opportunity to make America a better nation. And I 743 00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:32,000 Speaker 1: want to thank God once more for allowing me to 744 00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:35,680 Speaker 1: be here with you. You know, several years ago I 745 00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:39,520 Speaker 1: was in New York City autographing the first book that 746 00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:45,600 Speaker 1: I had written. While sitting they autographing books, the minute 747 00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:49,919 Speaker 1: black woman came up. The only question I heard from 748 00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:54,040 Speaker 1: her was you marderin Luther King? And I was looking 749 00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:57,520 Speaker 1: down writing and I said yes. The next minute I 750 00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:01,279 Speaker 1: felt something beating on my chest. Before I knew it, 751 00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:04,800 Speaker 1: I had been stabbed by this diminuted woman. I was 752 00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:08,960 Speaker 1: rushed to Hullum Hospital. It was a dark Saturday afternoon. 753 00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:14,400 Speaker 1: That blade had gone through, and the X rays revealed 754 00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:17,840 Speaker 1: that the tip of the blade was on the edge 755 00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:22,080 Speaker 1: of my air order. The main ottery and one such's punction. 756 00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,200 Speaker 1: You drowned in your own blood. That's the end of you. 757 00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:29,120 Speaker 1: It came out in the New York Times the next 758 00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:34,120 Speaker 1: morning that if I had merely sneezed, I would have died. Well. 759 00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:37,680 Speaker 1: About four days later, they allowed me, after the operation, 760 00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:40,680 Speaker 1: after my chest had been opened and the blade had 761 00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:44,760 Speaker 1: been taken out, to move around in the wheelchair the hospital. 762 00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:47,400 Speaker 1: They allowed me to read some of the mail that 763 00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:50,480 Speaker 1: came in, and from all over the States and the world. 764 00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:55,879 Speaker 1: Kind letters came in. I read a few, but one 765 00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:59,319 Speaker 1: of them I will never forget. I had received one 766 00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:01,600 Speaker 1: from the press it then and the Vice President. I've 767 00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:05,840 Speaker 1: forgotten what those telegrams said. I'd received the visit and 768 00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:08,160 Speaker 1: a letter from the Governor of New York, but I've 769 00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:12,280 Speaker 1: forgotten what that letter say it. But that was another 770 00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:17,160 Speaker 1: letter that came from a little girl, a young girl 771 00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:20,640 Speaker 1: who was a student at the White Plains High School. 772 00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:24,000 Speaker 1: And I looked at that letter. I'll never forget. It 773 00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:28,520 Speaker 1: said simply, dear Doctor King, I am a ninth grade 774 00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:33,359 Speaker 1: student at the White Plains High School. She said. While 775 00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:36,520 Speaker 1: it should not matter, I would like to mention that 776 00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:41,480 Speaker 1: I'm a white girl. I read in the paper of 777 00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:46,120 Speaker 1: your misfortune and of your suffering, and I read that 778 00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:49,920 Speaker 1: if you had sneezed, you would have died. I'm simply 779 00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:52,880 Speaker 1: writing you to say that I'm so happy that you 780 00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:57,480 Speaker 1: didn't sneeze, and I'd want to say the night. I 781 00:55:57,600 --> 00:55:59,880 Speaker 1: want to say the night that I too, am happy 782 00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:03,360 Speaker 1: that I didn't sneeze, because if I had sneezed, I 783 00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:07,320 Speaker 1: wouldn't have been around hid in nineteen sixty when students 784 00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:11,520 Speaker 1: all over the South started sitting in a lunchtounts, and 785 00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:13,600 Speaker 1: I knew that as they were sitting in they were 786 00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:17,520 Speaker 1: really standing up for the best in the American dream 787 00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:20,520 Speaker 1: and taken the whole nation back to those great weals 788 00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:24,320 Speaker 1: of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers 789 00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,640 Speaker 1: in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. If I 790 00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:31,320 Speaker 1: had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around hid in nineteen 791 00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:34,719 Speaker 1: sixty one when we decided to take a ride for 792 00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:38,960 Speaker 1: freedom and end its segregation in it to state travel. 793 00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:43,800 Speaker 1: If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here. 794 00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:48,080 Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty two, when Negroes and all been at 795 00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:51,920 Speaker 1: Georgia decided to straighten that box up. And whenever the 796 00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:55,400 Speaker 1: men and women straighten that box up, they are going somewhere, 797 00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:58,719 Speaker 1: because the men had roger back unless it is bent. 798 00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:02,960 Speaker 1: If I had see I had sneezed, I wouldn't have 799 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:07,840 Speaker 1: been here in nineteen six to three, the black people 800 00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:15,279 Speaker 1: of Birmingham, Alabama aroused the conscience of this nation and 801 00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,640 Speaker 1: brought into being the Civil Rights Bill. If I had sneeze, 802 00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:21,760 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have had a chance later that year in 803 00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:25,360 Speaker 1: August to try to tell America about a dream that 804 00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:30,600 Speaker 1: I had had. If I had sneeze, I wouldn't have 805 00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:35,520 Speaker 1: been down in Selma, Alabama to see the Gretain movement there. 806 00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:39,280 Speaker 1: If I had sneeze, I wouldn't have been in Memphis 807 00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:45,720 Speaker 1: to see a community rally around those brothers and sisters 808 00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:49,360 Speaker 1: who are suffering. I'm so happy that I didn't sneeze. 809 00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:53,520 Speaker 1: And they were telling them now it doesn't matter now, 810 00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:57,560 Speaker 1: it really doesn't matter what happens now. I left Atlanta 811 00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:00,880 Speaker 1: this morning, and as we got arted on the plane 812 00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:04,720 Speaker 1: that was six of us, the pilot said over the 813 00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:09,960 Speaker 1: public address system, we are sorry for the delay, but 814 00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:13,840 Speaker 1: we have doctor Mard Luther King on the plane, and 815 00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:17,120 Speaker 1: to be sure that all of the bags were checked 816 00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:21,400 Speaker 1: and to be sure that nothing would be wrong on 817 00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:25,880 Speaker 1: the plane, we had to check out everything carefully, and 818 00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:30,040 Speaker 1: we've had the plane protected and guard it all night. 819 00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:35,880 Speaker 1: And then I got into Memphis and some began to 820 00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:39,760 Speaker 1: say the threats, talk about the threats that were out. 821 00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:44,720 Speaker 1: What would happen to me from some of our sick 822 00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:49,400 Speaker 1: white brothers. Well, I don't know what will happen now. 823 00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:53,640 Speaker 1: We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't 824 00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:56,760 Speaker 1: matter with me now because I've been to the mountaintop. 825 00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:02,520 Speaker 1: I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live 826 00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:08,880 Speaker 1: a long life. Longevity has its place, but I'm not 827 00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:13,720 Speaker 1: concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will, 828 00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:18,240 Speaker 1: and He's allowed me to go up to the mountain, 829 00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:25,320 Speaker 1: and I've looked over and I've seen the promised Land. 830 00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:29,840 Speaker 1: I may not get there with you, when I want 831 00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:33,480 Speaker 1: you to know the night that we as a people 832 00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:38,640 Speaker 1: will get to the promised Land. So I'm happy to night. 833 00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:42,880 Speaker 1: I'm not worried about anything. I'm not feeling any man. 834 00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:46,320 Speaker 1: Mine eyes have seen the glory on the coming of 835 00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:51,640 Speaker 1: the Lord. You're listening morning show coming up. We're gonna 836 00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:55,480 Speaker 1: play some excerpts from Doctor Kings. I have a dream speech. 837 00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:03,800 Speaker 1: I'm happy to on with you today in what will 838 01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:10,080 Speaker 1: go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom 839 01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:20,800 Speaker 1: in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, 840 01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:26,880 Speaker 1: a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today 841 01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:36,120 Speaker 1: signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a 842 01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:40,760 Speaker 1: great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves 843 01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:45,040 Speaker 1: who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. 844 01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:50,120 Speaker 1: It came as a joyous day break to end the 845 01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:56,000 Speaker 1: long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, 846 01:00:56,960 --> 01:01:03,280 Speaker 1: the Negro steal is not free. One hundred years later, 847 01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:07,800 Speaker 1: the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by 848 01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:14,120 Speaker 1: the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One 849 01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:18,360 Speaker 1: hundred years later, the negro lives on a lonely island 850 01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:22,200 Speaker 1: of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of 851 01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:31,800 Speaker 1: material prosperity. One hundred years later, the negro is still 852 01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:37,920 Speaker 1: languished in the corners of American society and finds himself 853 01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:42,440 Speaker 1: in exile in his own land. So we've come here 854 01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:49,760 Speaker 1: today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense, we've 855 01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:55,520 Speaker 1: come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When 856 01:01:55,520 --> 01:02:00,920 Speaker 1: the architects of our Republic wrote the magnetic present words 857 01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:06,480 Speaker 1: of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were 858 01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:11,720 Speaker 1: signing a promise or reoe to whichever the American was 859 01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:18,640 Speaker 1: to fall air. This note was a promise at all men, Yes, 860 01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:23,920 Speaker 1: black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed 861 01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:29,760 Speaker 1: the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 862 01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:36,680 Speaker 1: It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this 863 01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:40,720 Speaker 1: promise or note in so far as her citizens of 864 01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:49,520 Speaker 1: color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America 865 01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:53,560 Speaker 1: has given the Negro people a bad check, a check 866 01:02:53,640 --> 01:03:02,600 Speaker 1: which has come back marked insufficient farm. But we refuse 867 01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:09,680 Speaker 1: to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. He 868 01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:13,360 Speaker 1: refused to believe that that are insufficient funds in the 869 01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:17,439 Speaker 1: great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we've come 870 01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:20,600 Speaker 1: to cash this check, a check that will give us 871 01:03:20,640 --> 01:03:24,800 Speaker 1: a pun demand the riches of freedom and the security 872 01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:34,920 Speaker 1: of justice. We have also come to this hell of 873 01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:40,439 Speaker 1: spot to remind a miracle of the fierce urgency of now. 874 01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:47,320 Speaker 1: This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling, 875 01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:57,800 Speaker 1: offer to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is 876 01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:04,240 Speaker 1: the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now 877 01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:09,160 Speaker 1: is the time arise from the dark and desolate valley 878 01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:13,840 Speaker 1: of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now 879 01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:23,000 Speaker 1: is the time from the quick sends a racial injustice 880 01:04:23,160 --> 01:04:26,320 Speaker 1: to the solid rock or brotherhood. Now is the time 881 01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:34,680 Speaker 1: of reality. For all of God's toil, It would be 882 01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:39,320 Speaker 1: fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. 883 01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:46,640 Speaker 1: This sweltering summut of the Negroes legitimate discontent will not 884 01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:52,360 Speaker 1: pass until that is an invigorating altumn of freedom and equality. 885 01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:56,960 Speaker 1: Nineteen sixty three is not an end, but a beginning. 886 01:04:58,160 --> 01:05:01,720 Speaker 1: Those who hope at the Negro needed to blow off 887 01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:07,400 Speaker 1: steam and will now be content, will have a rude awakening. 888 01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:17,720 Speaker 1: If the nation returns to business as usual, that will 889 01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:23,040 Speaker 1: be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro 890 01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:28,040 Speaker 1: has granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds a revolt will 891 01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:32,120 Speaker 1: continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the 892 01:05:32,240 --> 01:05:36,640 Speaker 1: bright day of justice emerges. But that is something that 893 01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:39,880 Speaker 1: I must say to my people who stand on the 894 01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:44,720 Speaker 1: warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In 895 01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:48,760 Speaker 1: the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not 896 01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:53,360 Speaker 1: be guilty of wrong for deeds. Let us not seek 897 01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:57,720 Speaker 1: to satisfy our first for freedom by drinking from the 898 01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:10,920 Speaker 1: cup of bitterness and hatred. You're listening Morning show right now. 899 01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:13,440 Speaker 1: As promise, we're gonna play some of doctor Kings. I 900 01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:15,840 Speaker 1: have a dream speech which he delivered on the steps 901 01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:20,160 Speaker 1: so the Lincoln Memorial back in nineteen sixty three. One day, 902 01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:23,920 Speaker 1: right now in Alabama, little black bars and black girls 903 01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:26,880 Speaker 1: will be able to join hands with little white bars 904 01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:29,760 Speaker 1: and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a 905 01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:34,880 Speaker 1: dream today. I have a dream that one day every 906 01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:39,280 Speaker 1: valad shall be exhulted, Every hill and mountains shall be 907 01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:42,320 Speaker 1: made low, The rough places would be made plain, and 908 01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:45,200 Speaker 1: the crooked places will be made straight, and the gore 909 01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:49,240 Speaker 1: of the Lord shall be revealed. All shall see it together. 910 01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:53,520 Speaker 1: This is our hope. This is a piece that I 911 01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:58,040 Speaker 1: go back to the software. With this fail we will 912 01:06:58,120 --> 01:07:00,280 Speaker 1: be able to he out of the mountains, not to 913 01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:05,000 Speaker 1: spare a stone of hope. With this fee, we will 914 01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:08,640 Speaker 1: be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation 915 01:07:09,120 --> 01:07:13,919 Speaker 1: into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this fee, we 916 01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:17,000 Speaker 1: will be able to work together, to pray together, to 917 01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:20,680 Speaker 1: struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up 918 01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:27,880 Speaker 1: for freedom, together, knowing that we will be free. One day. 919 01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:32,880 Speaker 1: This will be the day when all of God's children 920 01:07:34,080 --> 01:07:38,000 Speaker 1: be able to sing with new meaning, My country tearsity, 921 01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:43,439 Speaker 1: sweet land of liberty, of be our sings, land where 922 01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:48,080 Speaker 1: my fathers died, Land of the pilgrim's pride. From every 923 01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:52,480 Speaker 1: mountain side. Let freedom ring in Americas. To be a 924 01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:57,439 Speaker 1: great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring 925 01:07:58,560 --> 01:08:02,560 Speaker 1: from the prodigious hilltop of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring 926 01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:07,160 Speaker 1: from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring 927 01:08:07,320 --> 01:08:11,920 Speaker 1: from the heightening allegantes of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from 928 01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:16,320 Speaker 1: the snow cap rook is of Colorado. Let freedom ring 929 01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:20,519 Speaker 1: from the crebacious slopes of California. But not only that. 930 01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:27,240 Speaker 1: Let freedom ring from stone mountain of Georgia. Let freedom 931 01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:32,720 Speaker 1: ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from 932 01:08:32,760 --> 01:08:38,160 Speaker 1: every hill and mole hill of Mississippi, from every mountain fire, 933 01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:46,280 Speaker 1: Let freedom ring and windom happens when we allow freedom ring. 934 01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:49,600 Speaker 1: When we let in a ring from every village and 935 01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:54,760 Speaker 1: ever hamlet from every state and every city, we will 936 01:08:54,800 --> 01:08:59,040 Speaker 1: be able to speed up that day when all about children, 937 01:08:59,240 --> 01:09:03,560 Speaker 1: black men, white men, twos and ten files, protostants and 938 01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:07,559 Speaker 1: catholic we'll be able to drain hands and singing the 939 01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:11,599 Speaker 1: words of the old Nigro spiritual, free and last, free 940 01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:20,719 Speaker 1: and last. Thank god you're listening to say morning show, 941 01:09:21,800 --> 01:09:25,320 Speaker 1: Today's MLK Day. It is a day of service. Reverend 942 01:09:25,360 --> 01:09:28,839 Speaker 1: Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior devoted his life to service 943 01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:32,680 Speaker 1: and fighting for civil rights and freedom. Doctor King had 944 01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:37,400 Speaker 1: a pursuit for racial, social and economic justice. And Steve, 945 01:09:37,520 --> 01:09:40,320 Speaker 1: I gotta ask you this question. Uh, you know, you 946 01:09:40,360 --> 01:09:42,719 Speaker 1: talk about this a lot. You talked about it earlier 947 01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:45,880 Speaker 1: this morning. You've been through a lot growing up. So 948 01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:49,400 Speaker 1: how have you learned to deal with racism? How how 949 01:09:49,439 --> 01:09:54,400 Speaker 1: have you dealt with it? I mean, look, I mean 950 01:09:54,680 --> 01:09:58,120 Speaker 1: pretty much like most people. I mean, I'm angry about it. 951 01:09:58,320 --> 01:10:01,639 Speaker 1: I don't understand what's taken along. It doesn't make any 952 01:10:01,680 --> 01:10:05,599 Speaker 1: sense to me. It's it's actually pathetic. Why is it 953 01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:08,840 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three that people of color are still 954 01:10:08,880 --> 01:10:13,519 Speaker 1: asking for equality, which seems like we're asking it from 955 01:10:13,720 --> 01:10:17,720 Speaker 1: from from somebody that's not willing to give it. I mean, 956 01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:20,840 Speaker 1: it's just obviously that there are people who are set 957 01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:25,160 Speaker 1: in their ways, and it's frustrating now we're even with 958 01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:29,559 Speaker 1: that said, I have devoted myself to being the best 959 01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:33,360 Speaker 1: person that I can be to elevate myself as high 960 01:10:33,400 --> 01:10:37,080 Speaker 1: as I can, but not only elevate myself, stick my 961 01:10:37,160 --> 01:10:39,400 Speaker 1: hand back down the wall and bring up as many 962 01:10:39,439 --> 01:10:43,479 Speaker 1: people as I can, thus my foundation, thus my ranch, 963 01:10:43,960 --> 01:10:48,400 Speaker 1: Thus me trying to promote young people, thus helping people. 964 01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:55,040 Speaker 1: I'm constantly looking for ways to uplift the the oppressed, 965 01:10:55,040 --> 01:10:59,920 Speaker 1: the downtrodden people, and that carries over into all people too. 966 01:11:00,800 --> 01:11:03,920 Speaker 1: And that's what's been crazy about it. Man, I'm willing 967 01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:07,920 Speaker 1: to help all people. Now, do I have a special 968 01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:14,040 Speaker 1: affinity and do I target mostly people of color? Yeah? Yeah, 969 01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:16,599 Speaker 1: do that. And I was talking to one guy one 970 01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:20,080 Speaker 1: day and he said, well, how can you just target them? 971 01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:23,120 Speaker 1: I said, whoa, That's where I see the most need. 972 01:11:24,320 --> 01:11:27,200 Speaker 1: I see the most need in people of color and 973 01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:32,439 Speaker 1: oppressed people. So I'm targeting my efforts. I said, you know, now, 974 01:11:32,560 --> 01:11:34,840 Speaker 1: look it's all types of people come to the camp. 975 01:11:35,600 --> 01:11:39,000 Speaker 1: Anybody can come to the camp. Him and Asians are oppressed. 976 01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:41,599 Speaker 1: They welcome at the camp. All Latinos come to my camp. 977 01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:44,080 Speaker 1: There wasn't I got white kids come to the camp. 978 01:11:44,880 --> 01:11:49,280 Speaker 1: You know, I got all of them. Diversity, But you know, 979 01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:53,519 Speaker 1: you can't get mad at me because I know where 980 01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:57,040 Speaker 1: the greater need is and I can see it more obviously, 981 01:11:57,640 --> 01:12:01,120 Speaker 1: and it's my obligation because if the government not gonna 982 01:12:01,160 --> 01:12:03,439 Speaker 1: do it, well, let's just look at this right here. 983 01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:06,840 Speaker 1: For example, let's just look at the education disparity in 984 01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:10,920 Speaker 1: this country. Why do we have an educational disparity? Because 985 01:12:11,240 --> 01:12:13,479 Speaker 1: the money on the federal level that we pay in 986 01:12:13,560 --> 01:12:17,280 Speaker 1: taxes and we pay state taxes, local taxes, it all 987 01:12:17,320 --> 01:12:20,920 Speaker 1: goes into a fund. Now, the areas that pay the 988 01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:25,519 Speaker 1: most funds into the state taxes or the federal taxes 989 01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:29,439 Speaker 1: are the places that receive the most money back. Poor 990 01:12:29,560 --> 01:12:32,720 Speaker 1: places are not gonna have as big a pool to 991 01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:37,240 Speaker 1: pick from, so poor places stay behind the eight ball. 992 01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:41,800 Speaker 1: It's the system they set up. See they set that 993 01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:46,880 Speaker 1: system up, not me. So what should be happening is 994 01:12:47,160 --> 01:12:50,200 Speaker 1: we should as a country make sure that all people 995 01:12:50,240 --> 01:12:53,919 Speaker 1: have access to a quality education and a free education. 996 01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:58,439 Speaker 1: And that ain't the American way. That ain't the American way. 997 01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:01,600 Speaker 1: But that's why we lose using education wise on a 998 01:13:01,680 --> 01:13:05,800 Speaker 1: global level because other countries they don't, they don't do 999 01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:08,600 Speaker 1: it that way. We should all be able to we 1000 01:13:08,680 --> 01:13:10,760 Speaker 1: make enough money in this country where everybody should get 1001 01:13:10,760 --> 01:13:17,960 Speaker 1: free medical there's a business. We don't get that right, 1002 01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:20,600 Speaker 1: But this is the system they set up. And the 1003 01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:24,920 Speaker 1: system is not set up and targeted for the underprivileged 1004 01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:29,360 Speaker 1: or the oppressed or the less fortunate, that's right. So 1005 01:13:29,520 --> 01:13:31,680 Speaker 1: it's not set up that way. So my obligation of 1006 01:13:31,760 --> 01:13:35,560 Speaker 1: my foundation is fun the less fortunate, the oppressed, the 1007 01:13:35,720 --> 01:13:38,479 Speaker 1: down tried, and I go out of my way to 1008 01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:41,080 Speaker 1: see that that happens. But you know we're gonna win. 1009 01:13:41,840 --> 01:13:45,599 Speaker 1: It's just sad that it's taken so damn long, and 1010 01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:48,720 Speaker 1: as it pisses you off. And I would say this 1011 01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:54,280 Speaker 1: to anybody who is not of color, how long would 1012 01:13:54,360 --> 01:13:58,960 Speaker 1: you like to wait to be treated equal? And we'll 1013 01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:01,320 Speaker 1: have more of a Steve Harvey Morning Show as we 1014 01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:04,280 Speaker 1: celebrate the life and legacy of doctor Martin Luther King Junior. 1015 01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:12,519 Speaker 1: Right after this. You're listening. King Holiday is a day 1016 01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:15,679 Speaker 1: of service, Steve, You and your wife Marjorie are always 1017 01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:19,200 Speaker 1: giving back with your foundation. You mentor. We know that 1018 01:14:19,280 --> 01:14:21,599 Speaker 1: you have a great mentoring camp and what you do 1019 01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:24,680 Speaker 1: for these young men is so wonderful. So I have 1020 01:14:24,760 --> 01:14:28,880 Speaker 1: to ask you why is mentoring so important to you? Well, 1021 01:14:28,920 --> 01:14:32,639 Speaker 1: the girls, we can just ended down at the ranch. 1022 01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:36,320 Speaker 1: Marjorie was down there with the girls. It just ended. 1023 01:14:36,680 --> 01:14:39,360 Speaker 1: You could probably catch all the photos and stuff online. 1024 01:14:39,439 --> 01:14:42,360 Speaker 1: Are they She even spent the night with the girls 1025 01:14:42,400 --> 01:14:45,760 Speaker 1: at the Georgia Aquarium and then she spent down at 1026 01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:48,800 Speaker 1: the ranch. The new ranch we have, even though it's 1027 01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:52,040 Speaker 1: not built out yet. I'm still got to get a 1028 01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:54,919 Speaker 1: lot of funding to build it out to make it complete, 1029 01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:57,360 Speaker 1: but we've started the process, man. So the girls had 1030 01:14:57,400 --> 01:15:00,479 Speaker 1: their weekend down at the ranch. It's just important, man, 1031 01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:04,720 Speaker 1: It's just important to give back because once again, we 1032 01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:07,680 Speaker 1: live in a world that's not look those of us 1033 01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:10,920 Speaker 1: that are fortunate enough to help, we should help with 1034 01:15:10,920 --> 01:15:14,200 Speaker 1: our foundations or whatever. But the majority of the people 1035 01:15:14,240 --> 01:15:17,000 Speaker 1: that's doing the great work are not famous, rich people. 1036 01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:19,920 Speaker 1: The real soldiers out there on the front line is 1037 01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:23,559 Speaker 1: the coaches that's coaching every day for teachers, pay for 1038 01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:27,040 Speaker 1: the women out there who are being single mothers and 1039 01:15:27,120 --> 01:15:30,160 Speaker 1: raised days kids the right way. Those programs out there, 1040 01:15:30,200 --> 01:15:34,080 Speaker 1: the Big Brother Big Sister organizations, those after school programs, 1041 01:15:34,560 --> 01:15:37,800 Speaker 1: those are things that they do with Dan's troops and 1042 01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:42,120 Speaker 1: and drill teams and drama academies. That's the real work, 1043 01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:43,800 Speaker 1: and those are the real soldiers, and I want to 1044 01:15:43,840 --> 01:15:45,840 Speaker 1: thank those people for caring out the work that don't 1045 01:15:45,880 --> 01:15:49,040 Speaker 1: get the notoriety. That's because they're not famous or rich. 1046 01:15:49,360 --> 01:15:51,679 Speaker 1: That's right, Steve. And we'll have more of the Steve 1047 01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:54,640 Speaker 1: Harvey Morning Show on this King Holiday right after this. 1048 01:15:55,160 --> 01:16:02,880 Speaker 1: You're listening, well, today is MLK and tomorrow tomorrow's Steve 1049 01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:11,280 Speaker 1: Harvey's Wow Steve sixty sixth birthday six six six yes, 1050 01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:17,280 Speaker 1: six wow. Yeah. You can call Steven's voicemail at eight 1051 01:16:17,320 --> 01:16:20,759 Speaker 1: seven seven twenty nine, Steve eight seven seven twenty nine, Steven, 1052 01:16:20,840 --> 01:16:23,400 Speaker 1: leave him your birthday shout outs. You never know, we 1053 01:16:23,439 --> 01:16:27,000 Speaker 1: could play your birthday shout out on the air. Okay, Steve, 1054 01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:29,400 Speaker 1: I know you have big plans for your birthday tomorrow. 1055 01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:32,439 Speaker 1: What's happening now? I no, I had just wait to 1056 01:16:32,479 --> 01:16:34,960 Speaker 1: see what your wife gonna do. But you know you 1057 01:16:35,040 --> 01:16:42,360 Speaker 1: get your kicks on around sixty six. Oh look at claiming. Yeah, 1058 01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:46,840 Speaker 1: somebody told man you getting old? Yeah, old is the gold. 1059 01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:52,320 Speaker 1: If you don't like getting old, you ended, yeah, you 1060 01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:55,360 Speaker 1: can get any minute now. But you do know you 1061 01:16:55,400 --> 01:17:00,479 Speaker 1: won't be here for next Christa. And it's a it's 1062 01:17:00,520 --> 01:17:03,759 Speaker 1: just like wow, it's just like crazy, man, sixty six. 1063 01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:07,360 Speaker 1: That's a big number. That's a big number, man, that's 1064 01:17:07,400 --> 01:17:15,320 Speaker 1: a big number. This I probably feel more blessed this 1065 01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:20,519 Speaker 1: one than anyone before. And because I lost so many partners, 1066 01:17:20,560 --> 01:17:27,280 Speaker 1: many I lost. I lost some boys this year. Man 1067 01:17:27,720 --> 01:17:37,160 Speaker 1: that broke my heart. We all Horton que from Poland 1068 01:17:37,160 --> 01:17:39,920 Speaker 1: Green totely Do is my best friend. Marvel is Marvel 1069 01:17:40,080 --> 01:17:45,080 Speaker 1: Horton's brother. We all Horton flipped bass, my special and 1070 01:17:45,240 --> 01:17:48,600 Speaker 1: frat he passed. He was just at my house for 1071 01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:50,960 Speaker 1: the big round up we do for a bunch of ques. 1072 01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:53,200 Speaker 1: He was at my house and the next year we 1073 01:17:53,240 --> 01:17:57,200 Speaker 1: had it at my ranch. He wasn't. Now, So you know, 1074 01:17:57,640 --> 01:18:00,679 Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of us, a lot of cats, 1075 01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:04,080 Speaker 1: is dealing with health issues, and so this year was 1076 01:18:04,120 --> 01:18:07,000 Speaker 1: probably this is my one of my most grateful years 1077 01:18:07,120 --> 01:18:10,120 Speaker 1: because you know, as we age, you know, I got 1078 01:18:10,160 --> 01:18:12,880 Speaker 1: some health things. I'm grappling with two. You know, I'm 1079 01:18:13,160 --> 01:18:16,679 Speaker 1: just the body been. You know, I was watching a video, 1080 01:18:16,840 --> 01:18:19,920 Speaker 1: he says. You know, if you ever notice when you 1081 01:18:19,960 --> 01:18:22,880 Speaker 1: look at older couples, the woman is always a little 1082 01:18:22,880 --> 01:18:26,479 Speaker 1: bit most pride chipper than the man. The man is 1083 01:18:26,560 --> 01:18:29,599 Speaker 1: always dragging behind, the woman always looks a little bit 1084 01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:32,920 Speaker 1: more spride chippering the real old couple. That's because that 1085 01:18:32,960 --> 01:18:36,879 Speaker 1: man has been grinding. And he says, when you've been grinding, 1086 01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:41,559 Speaker 1: grinding means to wear down something. You know, if you 1087 01:18:41,640 --> 01:18:45,120 Speaker 1: grind your teeth, if you grind two pieces of stone together, 1088 01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:48,160 Speaker 1: you ground the corn meal. He's grind you grind it, 1089 01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:51,519 Speaker 1: he said, that's that's hard man, and a lot of 1090 01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:56,720 Speaker 1: men man just suffer from being in the grind. And 1091 01:18:57,520 --> 01:19:01,160 Speaker 1: I've been grinding, man, I have. I've been grindes. There's 1092 01:19:01,200 --> 01:19:07,479 Speaker 1: a priceful for success. There's a price for poverty. You know. 1093 01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:09,840 Speaker 1: It's sort of funny. I Want'm'm gonna touch on that 1094 01:19:09,880 --> 01:19:11,800 Speaker 1: a little bit later on today. I'm gonna touch on 1095 01:19:11,840 --> 01:19:15,120 Speaker 1: that a little bit later on. All right, Steve, all right, 1096 01:19:15,439 --> 01:19:18,360 Speaker 1: coming up, we'll have more on this King holiday right 1097 01:19:18,439 --> 01:19:24,240 Speaker 1: after this. You're listening, all right, So, Steve, we get 1098 01:19:24,280 --> 01:19:27,200 Speaker 1: this request every year people want us to play the 1099 01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:30,320 Speaker 1: closing from your stand up special. Remember when you did this. 1100 01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:33,080 Speaker 1: This is so memorable. Don't trip. He ain't through with 1101 01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:36,360 Speaker 1: me yet. At Bishop td Jake's megafest. This was back 1102 01:19:36,439 --> 01:19:40,080 Speaker 1: in two thousand and six. People still love this. Was 1103 01:19:40,080 --> 01:19:45,720 Speaker 1: that seventeen years ago. Whoa, I know the exact year 1104 01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:49,320 Speaker 1: that I stopped going to hell. Well that's a good thing. 1105 01:19:50,479 --> 01:19:53,360 Speaker 1: Two thousand and five, two thousand and six by RDE 1106 01:19:53,400 --> 01:19:55,799 Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, when I really put the brakes 1107 01:19:55,800 --> 01:19:58,680 Speaker 1: on it. But yeah, I was a full blast all 1108 01:19:58,720 --> 01:20:03,440 Speaker 1: the way up to two thousand, full black rocket rocket boosters, 1109 01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:13,759 Speaker 1: just going committed. Yeah. Man. Then Bishop called you you too, 1110 01:20:14,240 --> 01:20:16,160 Speaker 1: and you know, and he called me and asked me, 1111 01:20:16,160 --> 01:20:17,720 Speaker 1: and I told him, I said, man, let me think 1112 01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:19,840 Speaker 1: about and then I told him finally about the third 1113 01:20:19,840 --> 01:20:21,760 Speaker 1: cast of Bishop. I said, I can't do it. Man. 1114 01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:25,560 Speaker 1: I'm surprised you're asking me that. That's a whole I know, 1115 01:20:25,640 --> 01:20:29,760 Speaker 1: because I remember Church people ain't gonna deal me. He said, Hey, man, 1116 01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:33,400 Speaker 1: I know you, he said, but better than that, God 1117 01:20:33,560 --> 01:20:36,280 Speaker 1: know your heart. He said, you good brother man, you 1118 01:20:36,280 --> 01:20:39,519 Speaker 1: could do it. Come on, do this all right, man, 1119 01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:41,439 Speaker 1: I'll do it good. I'm gonna put you down and 1120 01:20:41,600 --> 01:20:45,240 Speaker 1: put you on the way. All right. Good. He was 1121 01:20:45,280 --> 01:20:47,559 Speaker 1: done with it. He didn't know what he had threw 1122 01:20:47,640 --> 01:20:50,080 Speaker 1: me into. Because let me tell you something, man, I 1123 01:20:50,160 --> 01:20:53,040 Speaker 1: had to go right, don't trip. He ain't through with 1124 01:20:53,160 --> 01:20:56,240 Speaker 1: me yet. It's a whole special, I wrote I had 1125 01:20:56,240 --> 01:20:59,080 Speaker 1: to go write that special. What jokes I was doing 1126 01:20:59,120 --> 01:21:03,679 Speaker 1: on the road that special I had to go write 1127 01:21:03,720 --> 01:21:06,719 Speaker 1: that one. I had to go put this church stuff together. 1128 01:21:07,120 --> 01:21:12,400 Speaker 1: It was probably the easiest hardest set I've ever written 1129 01:21:12,439 --> 01:21:14,439 Speaker 1: because I grew up in the church, so I knew 1130 01:21:14,439 --> 01:21:18,160 Speaker 1: a lot of church stuff, right. I did not think 1131 01:21:18,880 --> 01:21:21,160 Speaker 1: that the church folks was going to accept it because 1132 01:21:21,160 --> 01:21:23,080 Speaker 1: I was gonna have to talk about it. I was 1133 01:21:23,120 --> 01:21:25,320 Speaker 1: gonna have to talk about the people that they let 1134 01:21:25,400 --> 01:21:31,360 Speaker 1: read announcements, you know, because the first thing about reading announcements, 1135 01:21:31,439 --> 01:21:34,799 Speaker 1: reading is fundamental. You can't putting the ignorant people shouldn't 1136 01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:40,400 Speaker 1: be reading announcement at I just it's just a lot 1137 01:21:40,439 --> 01:21:43,840 Speaker 1: of stuff I knew calling the past about every little 1138 01:21:43,880 --> 01:21:46,599 Speaker 1: thing I just I said. And then stuff that I 1139 01:21:46,680 --> 01:21:52,680 Speaker 1: knew how to choir, saying who in the choir? You know? 1140 01:21:53,560 --> 01:21:57,519 Speaker 1: Stuff you can't do no more? Right? Right? I do 1141 01:21:57,640 --> 01:22:01,040 Speaker 1: any of them jokes. I'm being troubled. That's so true, Steve, 1142 01:22:01,040 --> 01:22:04,760 Speaker 1: Because my grandmother when she saw that special, she said, 1143 01:22:04,800 --> 01:22:08,960 Speaker 1: how he know all this is true? Talking about the church, 1144 01:22:09,240 --> 01:22:12,680 Speaker 1: all of that because I knew church, I grew up 1145 01:22:12,680 --> 01:22:15,840 Speaker 1: in it. What he was gonna ask me I was like, like, 1146 01:22:15,920 --> 01:22:17,679 Speaker 1: you know, like for US comedians, you know, you don't 1147 01:22:17,680 --> 01:22:19,759 Speaker 1: know where the bid gonna come from. Do you remember 1148 01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:22,559 Speaker 1: the money? Yeah? Do you remember the moment when you 1149 01:22:22,640 --> 01:22:24,240 Speaker 1: came up with that intro for Christ? Do you know 1150 01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:26,559 Speaker 1: you was at the time and place I was at. 1151 01:22:26,640 --> 01:22:29,519 Speaker 1: I was at the Grand Lux restaurant. Yeah, I was 1152 01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:34,760 Speaker 1: there too. I remember because I used to go from 1153 01:22:34,920 --> 01:22:37,479 Speaker 1: the radio show to the Grand Lux and sit there 1154 01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:44,120 Speaker 1: all day, sometimes three meals there. We played dominos all 1155 01:22:44,280 --> 01:22:48,599 Speaker 1: day though, all day. That's why they shut down too. 1156 01:22:49,320 --> 01:22:51,880 Speaker 1: You know. I had a lot going on back then. 1157 01:22:52,840 --> 01:22:57,880 Speaker 1: We knew and you know, like and I would just 1158 01:22:58,479 --> 01:23:02,559 Speaker 1: sit there and so one day Man Boom was there 1159 01:23:02,560 --> 01:23:04,960 Speaker 1: and Boom Dog, you know, had a hell of career. Man, 1160 01:23:05,400 --> 01:23:08,040 Speaker 1: what you like the most? I said, Man, I introduced everybody. 1161 01:23:08,400 --> 01:23:11,040 Speaker 1: I didn't introduce Bobe and Stripe saying, I introduced you know, 1162 01:23:12,880 --> 01:23:17,000 Speaker 1: Neil Diamond, Donon introduced. I'm telling about every black person 1163 01:23:17,680 --> 01:23:19,400 Speaker 1: beyond sat jay Z. I don't care who it is. 1164 01:23:19,439 --> 01:23:22,640 Speaker 1: I Luther Whitney, Michael, I said. The only person I 1165 01:23:22,680 --> 01:23:25,920 Speaker 1: ain't never introduced was Jesus. I said, if I could 1166 01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:29,080 Speaker 1: just introduce Jesus, that are capping for me. They said, man, 1167 01:23:29,120 --> 01:23:32,120 Speaker 1: what would you say? And that was a bit. If 1168 01:23:32,160 --> 01:23:38,880 Speaker 1: I had the pleasure of bringing out Christ, this is 1169 01:23:38,960 --> 01:23:41,720 Speaker 1: just how I would do it. It ain't got to 1170 01:23:41,760 --> 01:23:44,559 Speaker 1: be the way you do it. You might not think 1171 01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:48,240 Speaker 1: it's just right, but this is how I would do it. 1172 01:23:50,560 --> 01:23:56,240 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to introduce a 1173 01:23:56,400 --> 01:24:04,960 Speaker 1: man who needs no introduction ship. His credits are too 1174 01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:14,200 Speaker 1: long to list. He has done the impossible time after time. 1175 01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:23,360 Speaker 1: He had out of the major in Bethleham, Jerusalem by 1176 01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:30,400 Speaker 1: way of Heaven. His mother is still headlining in the 1177 01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:37,040 Speaker 1: Catholic Church today. He scattered is the author of a 1178 01:24:37,280 --> 01:24:41,679 Speaker 1: book that has been on the best seller list since 1179 01:24:41,720 --> 01:24:48,880 Speaker 1: the beginning of time. He holds the record for the 1180 01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:56,559 Speaker 1: walls freight its fish fry. He fed five thousand harm 1181 01:24:56,680 --> 01:25:03,559 Speaker 1: resuls with too fish five lose the bread. He can 1182 01:25:03,640 --> 01:25:10,440 Speaker 1: walk on water, turn water in the wine, no special effects, 1183 01:25:10,479 --> 01:25:16,679 Speaker 1: no camera tricks. 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