Warnock: GOP-led redistricting targeting Black seats a 'betrayal'
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Georgia U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock said he is deeply disappointed as he watches Republicans rush to redraw maps and eliminate seats held by Black lawmakers.
“It is a betrayal of the highest in the American ideals,” the Atlanta Democrat said during a recent interview on the “Politically Georgia” podcast. “And the same politicians who will be lining up, some of them wanting to come to my church in January and sing praises to Martin Luther King Jr. and remember him, are dismembering his legacy in real time.”
Warnock said these efforts, a reaction to last month’s Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act, will have lasting consequences that could unravel progress made during the Civil Rights Movement. But he isn’t giving up.
Warnock serves as head pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church from the same pulpit where King once preached. He pulls double duty as a member of the Senate, where preserving voting rights is one of his top priorities.
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