Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 02.13.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I want to talk to men for a minute. You know,
we live in a society today where we live in
a country that's supposed to pride itself on free speech.
But I must warn you that's not the case. Free
speech has been taken away. You can't say what you

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want to say no more because everybody's offended now, everybody,
and this world we live in now has new normals
that they've created that didn't exist for me back in
the day. I'm old school. I'm sixty eight years old,
so what's normal now was not normal then. But I

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want to talk to fathers for a minute. I want
to talk to men out there who are raising sons.
And let me tell you something. It's nothing wrong with
the way your father raised you. So if you're taking
the same way your father raised you and applying it
to your sons, it ain't nothing wrong with that. You

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ain't got to fix something that ain't broke. But you
got to be careful with these new normals out here,
because they will make you think that it's broke when
it's really not. The way my relationship was with my
father it was fine, man, it was fine. Oh he
was tough, Oh he was tough. He was hard on

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me at times, but I look back on it and
I realized what he was preparing me for. He was
preparing me for this life that I was gonna have
as a black man, that it was going to be hard.
So you might as well start practicing now. And I'm
not fitish sugarcoat this thing for you or soften it
for you because they Fitnah, give it to you now.

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I can give it to you here at the house,
or I can let the police give it to you
out there on the street. I prefer giving it to
you here at the house. That was my father the
way raised me. If you have sons out there and
your father raised you with tough love and it worked
and you turn out to be just fine, hold on
to that and don't let these new norms sway you.
Because these new norms, man, they're really not working. They're

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really not working. It's absolutely okay to be old school.
It's absolutely okay to teach your son principles. It's actually
okay to pull out a chair for a woman. It's
absolutely okay to open the door for a woman. It's
absolutely okay to be required to open up a car
door and put her in and make sure she in

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that before you get in the car. It's your duty
to pump the gas instead of her. It's okay to
teach that. It's okay to teach that to your sons. Man,
don't let these new norms get in your way, because
these new norms is hurting people. Man, It's okay to

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take care of a woman. It really is. It's it's
an honor. It's been my honor to be a provider. Now.
I ain't good at a lot of stuff. My wife
then told me that, Steve, you ain't good at a
lot of stuff. But when it comes to it taking
care of your family. I don't know nobody better. But

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listen to me. Taking care of your family don't mean
you got a lot of money. It means you taking
care of your family. And this is what I'm praying.
Tribute to the men out there that's taking care of
their business the right way, the way your father did
or the way your father. Some men are good at
being fathers and dads and husbands now because their father
was absent. He taught you what not to do. So

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hats off to them men too. But listen to me,
that is a way to teach manhood, and if you
know the way, teach it. Don't run no slack on them,
don't give them no breaks, don't cut no corners, because
I got news for you. Life ain't fin to do that.
Life fin to be hard, man, And if you're raising

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black boys, it's finna be hard. And I don't see
it get no better because Maga is in control. Maga
is going about the business of making they America the
version of the miracle that they thought was great. Ain't
no more DEI, ain't no more programs, ain't no more

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low costs, Ain't no more helping the down trodden. They
just doing it. Man. Racism is riding. They done freed
all the proud boys. They let all the convicted feelings
from January sixth out. Man of y'all watching what's happening,

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Stay on top of your sons and ladies. If you're single, mother,
find them a male role model. Find one, because they're
gonna need that. Hats off to all the men out
there being men. Hats off to all the men that's
raising your sons like men. Hats off to all you
men who had a father and doing it the same way. Man.

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We need more of that because these new norms. They
ain't cool, man, they ain't cool. I'm just go and
enjoy the rest of my life as a man and
pray to God. I get a strength to raise my
sons the same way you do the same brothers. Appreciate
y'all for listening. That's my closing remarks. If you didn't
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