The Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta — where Martin Luther King Jr. was once pastor, following in the footsteps of his maternal grandfather and his father — endured many of the same slurs that Dr. King endured while championing civil rights during his special election general and runoff campaigns in Georgia. Ultimately, he was successful, defeating the appointed Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler to become the first Black senator from Georgia and the first Black Democratic senator from a Southern state in history.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would no doubt be very proud of his pastoral successor and soon-to-be senator from Georgia, who stayed true to the Black liberation theology preached in churches like Ebenezer Baptist for generations, despite white conservative attacks on him and those beliefs — which have been successful before.
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