Steve Harvey’s New Year’s Eve Outfit Is the 1st Casualty of Black Twitter for the 1-8

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I guess that Trump Plaza photo op got Steve Harvey something besides the ire of black folks and lost viewership.

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The big-toothed comedian appeared as a host for Fox TV’s New Year’s Eve With Steve Harvey: Live From Times Square in Big Mama’s white coat, a hoodie of sorts to cover his ears, and a winter-white hat to match his chompers.

Chile—he was compared to everyone from Boss Hogg from The Dukes of Hazzard to Olivia Pope from Scandal and Mary J. Blige from her Share My World album cover.

And then there was this:

https://twitter.com/metroadlib/status/947690142927646722
https://twitter.com/AD_Renaissance/status/947712611419910144
https://twitter.com/TheLesterLee/status/947649919971667968
https://twitter.com/drewdavis71/status/947655852097527808
https://twitter.com/lasonyaj71/status/947668907518844929
https://twitter.com/ZsaKam_Blaze/status/947644296693469185
https://twitter.com/metroadlib/status/947661170479124481
https://twitter.com/wiillums/status/947675741633703936
https://twitter.com/cmjohnston12/status/947690684760383490
https://twitter.com/SheHatesJacoby/status/947644143584600066

He also pissed off Fox viewers by saying, “Three little black boys singing a song better than any white person I know.”

https://twitter.com/Messy_Monday/status/947650520621207553

Not quite a redemption song, but if they didn’t know he was black before, that outfit told it.

Hello, 2018. Let the shade begin.

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