From New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro. This is a Daily.

As Republicans race to restrict voting, they begin in Georgia,

once a Republican stronghold that has just elected its first Black Senator, Rafael Warnaug.

To many Democrats, that is no coincidence. Today, my colleague,

a stead-herndon speaks to Warnaug about race voting rights and his faith that the old political order

is fading away.

It's Wednesday, March 31st.

I said, why did you want to interview Rafael Warnaug?

So I grew up as a son of a Black pastor and grew up in those churches where the mixture of theology

and politics was very normal, but at the same time, has seen the ways in which, when that

moves into a political sphere, it can be cast as radical and as an American.

You know, I remember back when Barack Obama was running for president and he came under fire

for attending church services with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

The government gives them the drugs, bills, bigger prisons, passes a three strike law,

and then wants us to sing God Bless America. No, no, no, not God Bless America. God damn America.

Specifically for a sermon which he said, the phrase, God damn America.

Hi, this is Barack Obama.

And it led to a moment where...

Let me say at the outset that I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements

that have been the subject of this controversy. Barack Obama distanced himself from Jeremiah Wright.

That's just how that kind of world has often been portrayed into mainstream politics.

And I was interested in how a figure like Rafael Warnaug would navigate that.

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