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Steve Harvey Sits Down To Talk About Changing The Inner City With Donald Trump And Ben Carson

... expert, judge of the attractiveness (or lack thereof) of Asian men —is now undersecretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development alongside Ben “Clueless” Carson? GOT IT. I guess it makes sense. If a failed businessman and the host of The Apprentice is qualified to run our country, surely Pimp-Suit Chompers is qualified to help with HUD. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Trump tapped Harvey to help bring change to Chicago and other inner cities. “He’s a great friend of ours,” the president-elect told reporters. “Everybody knows Steve Harvey. Everyone having fun? Steve just came up to say hello.”. As the Sun-Times notes, Harvey endorsed Hillary Clinton for president and came under fire over allegations that his staff provided her with advance questions before an interview on his radio show in February. Harvey told reporters that Trump introduced him to Carson, and they discussed help for inner cities. Reporters asked if Chicago was one of the cities he would be ...

Steve Harvey To Team With Ben Carson On Inner City Initiative Under Trump

... for drafting repeal legislation, though House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has said Republicans do not yet have a hard deadline in place. DOJ: Chicago police's 'excessive force' violates the Constitution. The Chicago Police Department has habitually used excessive force that violates the Constitution, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Friday. The findings followed what Lynch described as an "exhaustive" 13-month Department of Justice investigation that was launched amid uproar over the fatal shooting of a black teenager, Laquan Mc Donald, by a white police officer. The resulting 161-page report attributed the "unreasonable" use of sometimes "deadly force" to "systemic deficiencies" within the city and police department. Lynch said there is "considerable work to be done," and Chicago authorities have signed an agreement pledging their commitment to reforms. Trump applauds Cabinet nominees who 'express their own thoughts, not mine'. President-elect Donald Trump reiterated his support for his Cabinet nominees Friday morning, after several of his picks contradicted him on key policy issues during confirmation hearings this week. In a tweet ...

12-year-old Pulls Gun In Fight Over Chicken Nugget, Police Say

... boy followed her to the subway where he put a gun to her head demanding she give him a chicken nugget, police said. > > Read more trending stories. The 13-year-old girl pushed the gun away and told the boy to leave her alone. She boarded the train unharmed. She told school officials about the incident Wednesday and the boy was taken into custody for attempted robbery. The gun has not been found. It’s unclear if it is real. Hearing-impaired man leaves note after driving over body in Florida. Published: Friday, January 13, 2017 @ 10:57 PM. Updated: Friday, January 13, 2017 @ 10:57 PM. By: Action News __link__. ST. JOHNS COUNTY. Deputies are searching for a driver who hit and killed a pedestrian who had been walking on U. S. 1 in St. Johns County, Florida, and then continued driving. Another driver, who is hearing impaired, ran over the body  and then circled back to help. Two big country names will roll out the welcome ...

Oops! 2017 Sinulog Festival Queen Pageant Emcees Did A Steve Harvey

... as the first runner up in the pageant held at the Cebu City Sports Center earlier tonight. Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, the guest of honor of the pageant, immediately took to the stage to correct the mistake the emcees made and formally announced that the first runner up of the 2017 Sinulog Festival Queen Pageant was Ivy Tapic of Asturias and not Ms. Balaso. ‘We take the responsibility for this mix-up and our apologies to Miss Labangon. You’re very pretty. She’s a very graceful dancer and she deserves to win,” announced Ricky Ballesteros, the executive director of the Sinulog Foundation Inc., which operates the Sinulog Festival Queen pageant. Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña announces the real first runner up (CDN PHOTO/MOREXETTE ERRAM). Miss Labangon actually did not place in the top five of the pageant that was won by Marla Pino Alforque of Carcar City. Ms Alforque was joined by Ivy Tapic ...

Tv Host Steve Harvey Explains His Meeting With Donald Trump

... with the situation in the inner cities.". (Photo: ALBIN LOHR-JONES / POOL, EPA). TV host Steve Harvey was the latest celebrity to drop in for a meeting at Trump Tower on Friday. And now he's explaining what it was all about. "Our president (Obama) asked that all of us sit down and talk to one another in order to move our country forward," the host of Family Feud and The Steve Harvey Show noted in a statement posted to Twitter.  "The transition teams on both sides asked me to meet and I'm glad I did.". Harvey said that Trump "immediately got (HUD secretary nominee) Dr. Ben Carson on the phone to begin dialog in looking for programs and housing to help our inner cities." He added that the president-elect "seems very open to my mentoring efforts across the country.". He added, "I walked away feeling like I had just talked with a man who genuinely wants to make a difference in this area. I feel that something really great could come out of this.". Harvey's bottom line? "I would sit with him anytime.". — Steve Harvey ...

Comedian Steve Harvey Meets With President-elect Donald Trump

... Bush Give Advice To Malia And Sasha Obama Woman Living In US Illegally Asks Paul Ryan: Should I Be Deported. NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 13: (L to R) President-elect Donald Trump and television personality Steve Harvey speak to reporters after their meeting at Trump Tower, January 13, 2017 in New York City. President-elect Trump continues to hold meetings at Trump Tower in New York. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images). Drew Angerer. Copyright 2017 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Show Caption. Comedian Steve Harvey is the latest celebrity to visit President-elect Trump at his office in Trump Tower. Harvey, the host of game show Family Feud, was reportedly in Manhattan to discuss housing with Trump. Reuters reports that Harvey will work with incoming secretary of Housing and Urban Development secretary Ben Carson on an inner city initiative. Following his meeting with Trump, Harvey posted a lengthy message on Twitter. Our president (Obama) asked that all of us sit down and talk to one another in order to move our ...

Trump-obama ‘family Feud’ Equals Ratings Gold

... teams. The comedian had been critical of Trump in the past, saying after the president-elect’s stunning White House win, “As hard as I fought for that not to be the case, it is the case.”. Following the meeting, he appeared to change his tune, saying, “It was an honor to be invited to talk and I think that’s the only way that we’re gonna unify our country. We gotta talk.". But Harvey said the meeting wasn’t prompting his own leap into the political realm: “It’s not my jump into politics. I ain’t gonna pass a background check.”. Wasserman Schultz confronted Comey. The former head of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) confronted FBI. 757 Shares. Matt Lauer: I 'burst out crying'. NBC's Matt Lauer says he was reduced to tears when he watched President. 635 Shares. Dems 'outraged' with Comey after. A number of House Democrats left Friday's confidential briefing on Russian. 548 Shares. Ethics office highlights ban on. The chief government ethics watchdog reminded executive branch employees. 392 Shares. Senate Intel panel to probe Trump. The Senate Intelligence Committee announced Friday that it will be. 237 Shares. ...

The Disturbing History Behind Steve Harvey's Asian Men Jokes

... of targeted laws that systematically stripped them of rights that signified manhood, such as property ownership, job opportunities and the ability to marry freely. The legislation worked hand-in-hand with the campaign on the cultural front, warning men and women of the Yellow Peril and peppering newspapers with caricatures that clearly showed these coolies as less than regular men. (MTV News' webseries Decoded has a good — and educating — rundown of this history.). This is where the "tiny Asian penis" jokes on our talk shows, playgrounds and Oscar stages come from. It’s the legacy of deliberate discrimination in our country’s history, just as the hypersexualization of black men has its damaging roots in slavery. These crude reputations aren't harmless. Without even getting into the more life-threatening ramifications of sexual stereotyping, there's ample statistical and anecdotal evidence that black and Asian men take a hit in the dating pool because of perception bias. (So do black women, which is one ...