Prayer and Politics: On the Campaign Trail in Georgia with Raphael Warnock
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🗓️ 16 December 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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On this week's Mother Jones Podcast, we take you along for the ride as Democrats barnstorm Georgia in the last few weeks before the pivotal runoff elections. Our reporter Becca Andrews is pulling up to drive-in church services and political rallies at the heart of the Reverend Raphael Warnock’s race against incumbent Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler. It’s something of an old narrative meeting a new age: Republicans are unleashing dated stereotypes and prejudices about the Black church to smear Warnock, but his faith and his deep ties to the civil rights movement are rallying points for his supporters—and they’ll be crucial in Democrats’ pursuit of Senate control. The party will need to rely, at least in part, on the deep legacy of the Black church in political activism and in expanding voting rights, while a younger generation of organizers brings new-school methods to an old-school race.
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| 0:00.0 | Becca, where are we right now and what are we listening to? |
| 0:07.0 | We're in Columbus, Georgia. |
| 0:09.0 | I was glad when they said unto me. |
| 0:11.0 | At a Baptist church. Let us go into the house of the Lord. Our feet |
| 0:15.7 | shall stand within thy gates, old Jerusalem. I am standing out here on this gray day |
| 0:21.5 | next to sort of this makeshift pulpit where there is a band |
| 0:26.6 | set up and in front of me I see so many cars. |
| 0:31.0 | Here is the past a great big round of applause. |
| 0:35.1 | Reverend Raphael Warnock is preaching here this Sunday. |
| 0:38.1 | It's wonderful to be here. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm running as a person of faith shaped by our churches. |
| 0:49.4 | I grew up in the church. |
| 0:52.2 | I was born in the church. I was born in the church. And all of that has shaped me into the person |
| 1:00.4 | that I have become. I wanted to find out how people outside of Atlanta |
| 1:05.9 | are receiving Reverend Warnock and I wanted to get a better feel for what people |
| 1:10.3 | think of him and the more like rural parts of Georgia. |
| 1:13.4 | It's dark, but if you hold on for just a little while, |
| 1:18.8 | the sun begins to break through the clouds and to discover that morning is here after all. |
| 1:25.0 | And if there was one thing that stayed with you after this sermon, what was it? |
| 1:30.0 | But Joy comes in the morning. |
| 1:32.0 | I think it was just the power of But Joy comes in the morning. |
| 1:33.0 | I think it was just the power of faith |
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