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Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - Remembering Rev Jesse Jackson - 2.17.26 · Daily Inspiration: The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: I want to talk a moment for just about the
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  Speaker 1: passing of one of the great civil rights movement figures
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  Speaker 1: in Reverend Jesse Jackson. Now, listen to me. It's not
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  Speaker 1: that we were exceptionally close. It's not that we talked often.
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  Speaker 1: It was none of that. It's just that I knew him,
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  Speaker 1: and I knew him sometimes on a personal level. We
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  Speaker 1: had many conversations about rights and movements and protesting, pushing
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  Speaker 1: and all of these things. But we also had many
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  Speaker 1: personal conversations. I remember the last time I really sat
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  Speaker 1: down and talked with him. We were at a gem
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago together when I was living in Chicago, and
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  Speaker 1: he walked up to me. I was in the weight room,
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  Speaker 1: and we sat down and we had a conversation. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Jesse Jackson and I were close.
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  Speaker 1: You know how a lot of people when somebody passes
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, they talk about how close
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  Speaker 1: they were in friends. That wasn't the case. But I
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  Speaker 1: knew him, and I've known him for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: a long long time. I've set in meetings with him,
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  Speaker 1: I've been in protest with him, I've still shoulders to
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  Speaker 1: shoulder with him before I learned from him. I watched him. Now,
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  Speaker 1: look in these days and times, we have a system
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  Speaker 1: that's set up now where we always try to find
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  Speaker 1: what's wrong with a person, and you know, instead of
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  Speaker 1: just talking about their accolades and what they accomplished. So
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  Speaker 1: I'll let them trollers say whatever they want to say,
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  Speaker 1: but let me tell y'all something. In his prime, Jesse
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  Speaker 1: Jackson was a bad man. Jesse Jackson made an impact
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  Speaker 1: on the movement. Jesse Jackson was at the forefront of
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  Speaker 1: so many things, trying to push the policies and the
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  Speaker 1: agenda of black people forward. He was with Al Sharpton
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  Speaker 1: many times, he was with doctor King, that's how far
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  Speaker 1: back he goes. He was with Abernathy. I've seen him
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  Speaker 1: with some of the top black leaders out there, Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Young, everybody. I've watched this man and he was effective.
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  Speaker 1: And I think I said this earlier, but the speech
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  Speaker 1: he gave at the eighty four Democratic Convention was one
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  Speaker 1: of the greatest speeches ever given at a political convention anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Had he given that speech early on, that man could
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  Speaker 1: have ran for president. He was that great of an orator.
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  Speaker 1: But man, he was just there. Now listen, everybody make mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure when my life is over, ah, people
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  Speaker 1: can go down through a list of mistakes I made.
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  Speaker 1: I could actually do it for you. I could actually
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  Speaker 1: do it for you to save you the time. But
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  Speaker 1: you know what, who hasn't who hasn't made mistakes? Which
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  Speaker 1: one of you? Which one of you with the rock
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  Speaker 1: cocked back in your hand before you throw it? Which
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  Speaker 1: one of you ain't made the mistakes? And so in
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  Speaker 1: my closing, I just want to say thank you to
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  Speaker 1: Revend Jackson for all that he accomplished with Rainbow Push
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  Speaker 1: the movement, with all of the protests he organized, with
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  Speaker 1: all the meetings. This dude had a global impact. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know that Jesse Jackson could go get hostages out
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  Speaker 1: when they wouldn't even listen to them white presidents? Do
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  Speaker 1: you know they would listen to this black man? Do
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  Speaker 1: you know that Jesse Jackson could go over there? Let me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you right now, right now, there's a
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  Speaker 1: music producer right now that is at home because of
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Jackson, because he took hisself overseas, got involved in
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  Speaker 1: some drugs in the country that don't play that, and
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  Speaker 1: they had him Jesse Jackson went and got it. I
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  Speaker 1: can't tell you the hostages this man. I wish I
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  Speaker 1: could think of the names of all of it. But
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Jackson was a hostage negotiate, negotiator for the families,
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  Speaker 1: and he went on behalf of the United States, whether
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  Speaker 1: they asked him to or not, and he got it done.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't seen Jesse go over there and not come
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  Speaker 1: back with a person yet. He was effective, y'all. And
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  Speaker 1: for those young people that never knew who he was
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  Speaker 1: and never got to experienced some of the great movements
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  Speaker 1: he was involved in. You know, look, you got Google.
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  Speaker 1: You count on that so much. You know, just google
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  Speaker 1: the man. Google the great accomplishments of Jesse Jackson and
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  Speaker 1: you gonna see how long that page is. But Jesse Jackson, man,
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  Speaker 1: he deserves the honor, I think. Let me see. No,
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  Speaker 1: the last time I talked to Jesse was actually with
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  Speaker 1: our dear friend's funeral, Greg Calhoun passed in Montgomery, Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know Jesse Jackson came to that funeral because
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  Speaker 1: my buddy Greg Calhoun used to actually work for Jesse Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: And that's actually the last time I talked to Jesse
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  Speaker 1: was at Greg Calhoun's funeral down in Montgomery, Alabama. Man,
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  Speaker 1: that's the last time I talked to Jesse. Just a
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  Speaker 1: good dude. Man. He was a great man. He was
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  Speaker 1: effective in the civil rights movement. And if you want
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  Speaker 1: to say something about Jesse Jackson, say that because Jesse
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  Speaker 1: Jackson was a great brother. Man. Condolences goes out to
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  Speaker 1: the whole Jackson family and everybody rainbow pushing all of
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  Speaker 1: that man and just everybody didn't do it. Man, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: y'all have a great day today. Talk to God. He'd
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