Steve Harvey set the record straight with Umar Johnson.
Johnson recently said that Steve Harvey along with other Black celebrities are getting paid to shame Black people into voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s election. However, Harvey responded to Johnson’s claim on his radio show, The Steve Harvey Morning Show.
“Brother Umar, let me say this man. I absolutely love some of the things you say. I really, really do. Some of the stuff, I don’t always agree with, but ain’t nobody got to agree with everything I say,” Harvey said. “But let me clear the air on something. You can’t hire Steve Harvey for $10,000. I don’t know where you got that number from, but you can’t offer Steve Harvey $10,000 to do nothing. You can go through the industry and ask about me.”
Harvey went on to say that there’s no hate between him and Johnson and added that he likes his work. “I don’t do nothing, nothing, for $10,000. Don’t even insult the brand equity that I built over these 30 years on television. I just don’t, man. I’m doing this absolutely free of charge because I want this country to be in her hands as opposed to Donald Trump’s hands. That’s who I do it.”
Steve Harvey also mentioned that Rickey Smiley, who was named dropped by Johnson, and D.L. Hughley were on the same page as he was. He said that they are “running the airwaves of Black radio. He added that he has not, “received a single dollar from anybody to do what I do. I’m doing it gladly. And I’m going to freely have her on here again and again and again. I am going to freely ask soft a** questions. I am going to freely lodge the basketball so she can slam dunk all these questions. I am going to freely sit here and agree.”
He continued, “The Black vote is not for sale. But it is a very important block of votes that can control the outcome of this election. And if I have my way, and it’s within God’s will, she will be the next President of the United States. Because the alternative, it’s only two people running for President. If somebody offered you $10,000, you should’ve took it. Ain’t nobody offer me nothing. Please don’t insult me. It cost way more for me to turn this mic on.”
Umar Johnson later responded to Steve Harvey’s response on his social media. See what he had to say below.