There's a reason GOP attacks in Georgia are focused on Rev. Warnock — not Ossoff
The Black church has always played a pivotal role in the community, and in our fight for justice and equality. It is where many of our great leaders emerged, where they organized, and where they pushed for change.
Decades earlier, Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
built a powerhouse of mobilization as the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York. He
later went on to become the first African American to serve on the New York City Council, before spending 11 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, fighting to enact programs for the poor and the marginalized. The
attacks against Powell are well-known, especially within New York’s Black community: his critics and enemies painted him as a radical, an extremist, a communist, a troublemaker and an overall threat to society.
It's same playbook we see over and over again: racist attacks rooted in nothing but plain old bigotry.
Today, we are seeing similar refrains against Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, and the Democratic candidate for one of Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats. As the Jan. 5 runoffs approach, and with control of the Senate in the balance, the smears and vitriol against Warnock have only escalated. It’s the same playbook we saw against Powell and the same playbook we see over and over again: racist attacks rooted in nothing but plain old bigotry.
During the
Dec. 6 debate between Warnock and Sen. Kelly Loeffler, the Republican candidate referred to Warnock as a “radical liberal” 13 times. That was no coincidence or a slip of the tongue. Rather, it was an orchestrated strategy designed to tarnish Warnock's image, play to the GOP base, and make Georgians fearful of the “radical Black man.” It’s tired; it’s old; and it’s the same vile fearmongering that was used against transformative changemakers like Powell and against Black men since the inception of this nation. Loeffler knew exactly what she was doing.
There's a reason GOP attacks in Georgia are focused on Rev. Warnock — not Ossoff (msn.com)
Of course there will be plausible deniability here because the racists will claim how this is another black person. But I know the black church and had Warnock been what racists here claim, he would not be pastor of that church.