Mo’Nique Supporter Says Steve Harvey “Would’ve Told Rosa Parks to Move to the Back” of the Bus as Twitter Users Pick Apart Talk Show Host for Telling “Blackballed” Comedian to Choose Money Over Integrity

Steve Harvey and Mo’Nique had a very real conversation on “The Steve Harvey Show” and Twitter is getting involved in a big way.

Mo’Nique opened up to Harvey about her beef with him, Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, and Lee Daniels. The Oscar winner explained how she was “blackballed” from the industry and labelled as “difficult” for refusing to sacrifice her integrity.

“We got labelled as ‘difficult’ because I said one word — and that was ‘No’,” Mo’Nique said. “Now I said ‘no’ to some very powerful people… The difficulty came in when people that looked like me, like Oprah, Tyler, Lee Daniels, and I got to put my brother Steve on the list.”

“Y’all knew that I was not wrong,” she continued. “Each one of you said to me, ‘Mo’Nique, you’re not wrong.’ And when I heard you go on the air and said, ‘My sister burned too many bridges, and it’s nothing I can do for her now,’ Steve, do you know how hurt I was?”

Harvey argued that Mo’Nique went about it the wrong way. He suggested integrity holds less weight in the “money game.”

“When you tell the truth, you have to deal with the repercussions of the truth,” Harvey told Mo’Nique. “We black out here. We can’t come out here and do it any way we want to,” Harvey said. “Your husband can’t be the Sidney [Hicks] that he really is out here […] This is the money game. This ain’t a black man’s game, this ain’t a white man’s game. This is the money game!”

“If I crumble, my children crumble, my grandchildren crumble,” he expressed. “I cannot for the sake of my integrity, stand up here, and let everybody that’s counting on me, crumble so that I can make a statement. There are ways to win the war in a different way.”

Mo’Nique had a different perspective: “Before the money game, it’s called the integrity game and we’ve lost the integrity worrying about the money.”

Members of the Twitterverse, including Emmy winner Jackee Harry and BBC Africa’s Victoria Uwonkunda, were firmly in support of Mo’Nique.

SOURCE: ET Canada – Shakiel Mahjouri