“Enjoy Your Nice Brown Glass of Water”: Steve Harvey Defends Insensitive Joke About Flint Water Crisis

It’s been a bad few weeks for comedians and Steve Harvey is a latest one to put his feet in his mouth. During a new promote of his morning radio show, a comedian made a terrible “joke” about a H2O predicament in Flint, Michigan.

On Tuesday (Jun. 13) Harvey, a Cleveland Cavaliers fan, was deliberating his team’s detriment to a Golden State Warriors in a NBA Finals. A tourist from Flint commented that Cleveland didn’t “deserve jack.” This stirred a former Cleveland proprietor to unleash on a caller.

“You from Flint? … That’s because y’all ain’t even got purify water. When was a final time we overwhelmed H2O and it didn’t have lead in it?”

Harvey’s co-hosts were repelled by a criticism and urged him to “reel it in.” Instead, he attempted to explain his “trash talking.”

“I wasn’t articulate about a city of Flint, we was articulate about him. … He going to call in, contend Cleveland don’t merit jack, and he over there showering in all that china water.”

He afterwards proceeded to make one some-more puncture during a Flint proprietor before he hung up, that one of his co-hosts immediately apologized for on interest of a uncover and Harvey.

“One some-more thing. … Enjoy your good brownish-red potion of water.”

Harvey, who dedicated an whole part of his daytime speak uncover to a Flint Water Crisis final year, perceived complicated recoil for his criticism on amicable media. Flint mayor Karen Weaver even sent a letter to a comedian propelling him to apologize for creation light of an ongoing predicament that has already claimed 12 lives and has been related to an conflict of Legionnaires’ disease.

Flint Mayor Weaver calls for a open reparation from Steve Harvey. See her minute here. pic.twitter.com/rADXaWHB3p

— William A Harris (@BillHarrisTV) June 15, 2017

Nine-year-old Amariyanna “Mari” Copeny, also famous as “Little Miss Flint,” posted a response video seeking him to apologize and severe him to indeed revisit Flint to entirely know a earnest of a situation.

Copeny seemed on Harvey’s uncover final year to plead a crisis. She also wrote a minute to President Barack Obama, that stirred him to revisit a Michigan city.

Flint is not a fun @IAmSteveHarvey @SteveHarveyFM greatfully apologize #FlintWaterCrisis #Flint #FlintLivesMatter #PeopleDied pic.twitter.com/uOSPQsOkFR

— Little Miss Flint (@LittleMissFlint) June 14, 2017

Harvey issued a statement per his unresponsive comments. He reduced his fun to “trash articulate about sports” and reiterated a fun was not destined during a whole city of Flint, only a Flint proprietor caller.

“This morning callers and we were enormous jokes about a Cleveland Cavaliers detriment to a Golden State Warriors. I’m a outrageous Cavs fan.

The tourist and we were articulate rabble about a teams and cities. ‘SIMPLY TRASH TALKING ABOUT SPORTS’.

I done a fun destined during him, as he is from Flint, a city for that we have good love and respect. So most so that we clinging a full hour on my daytime speak uncover to lifting recognition for a Flint H2O crisis.

I also pulpy afterwards candidate, Hilary Clinton, to offer solutions to what we called one of a good catastrophes of complicated times.

The tourist laughed as my fun was taken in a context it was offered.

Any attempts to qualification this into anything some-more serves no one.” -Steve Harvey

The matter is really not a reparation Mayor Weaver and Little Miss Flint was anticipating for. In fact, he defends a fun but even giving a half-ass “I’m contemptible we were offended” apology. Maybe he’ll accept Copeny’s plea and revisit Flint and offer some help.

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