Steve Harvey Meets with Donald Trump About Fixing the Plight of Inner Cities
It remains the case that President-elect Donald Trump is tapping a wide variety of resources in his effort to ���make America great again.���
His latest selection of non-politician ���go-to��� people is none other than very-popular and multi-faceted entertainer Steve Harvey. As reported by a number of media outlets, including USA Today, Harvey met with Trump on Friday at Trump Tower in New York City, and it appears he will be one of the folks relied upon by the new administration to oversee the effort at making life better for the people who reside in America���s inner cities.
Last month, retired NFL legends Jim Brown and Ray Rice met with Trump to discuss ways in which the gang violence that has become such an unfortunate accompaniment to life in many of the nation���s urban communities could be curbed. Just as Brown and Rice emerged enthusiastic and optimistic from their meeting with Trump, Harvey exuded the same feelings when he met with reporters after exiting his meeting with Trump and members of the transition team.
���Trump wants to help with the situations in the inner cities so he immediately got Dr. Ben Carson on the phone to put us together to begin dialog in looking at programs and housing to help our inner cities and he���s very open to my mentoring efforts across the country,��� Harvey said.
Harvey continued, ���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��� I would sit with him anytime.���
Referring to Trump as ���congenial and sincere,��� Harvey said, ���I stepped from behind my microphone and I came and talked to the guy who is going to be the 45th president,��� suggesting an attitude of reconciliation and hope on the part of one who did not support Trump���s candidacy���that differs markedly from other celebrities who have assumed a purely obstructionist posture in the wake of Hillary Clinton���s November defeat.
���It���s an honor to be invited to talk, and I think that���s the only way that we���re going to unify our country,��� Harvey said. ���We���ve got to talk.���
By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large
