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Warnock election a sign of progress, but obstacles remain for black candidates, scholars say Deanna Allbrittin
Lost in the chaos at the United States Capitol, Georgia made history this week with their runoff elections.
A Jewish man and a Black man both won their Senate races Tuesday.
Reverend Raphael Warnock became only the second black Senator from a southern state since reconstruction.
LIVE: Reverend Warnock Addresses Supporters on Election Night https://t.co/3AjHzC35qy Senator-Elect Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) January 6, 2021
Race scholars say his election is a sign of progress, but there’s still much farther to go.
Nearly 2,000 people have served in the U.S. Senate, and early Wednesday morning, Raphael Warnock became only the 11th Black American elected to the body.
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When Raphael Warnock was born, the state of Georgia was represented in the Senate by two segregationists – one of them, Herman Talmadge, a southern Democrat who opposed civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
Today, Warnock, a senior preacher at the Ebenezer Baptist church, where Martin Luther King Jr once preached, has been elected the first African American Democratic senator from a formerly Confederate state.
His victory over the hardline Trump supporter and Republican incumbent, Kelly Loeffler, who tried to cast Warnock as a “Marxist radical”, is significant for a number of reasons.
It not only marks a repudiation of the racist dog-whistle politics of the Trump era, but a change in the political dynamics of Georgia where – until Joe Biden’s victory in the state in November – no Democratic presidential candidate had won since Bill Clinton in 1992.
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N APRIL 13TH 1873 a group of armed white men rode into Colfax, Louisiana, a town around 200 miles north-west of New Orleans. Included in their number were members of the Ku Klux Klan and Knights of the White Camelia, both terrorist groups devoted to maintaining white rule across the American South. They were coming to seize the courthouse, then occupied by black and white Republicans who claimed victory in a disputed election the year before (Republicans were the party of Abraham Lincoln and emancipation). Republicans called on their supporters, most of whom in Colfax were black, to defend them.
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