A Black megachurch pastor delivered the kind of endorsement of Sen. Raphael Warnock that only a Black pastor could provide, and Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker, a clown of a candidate, gave that pastor all the fuel he needed to spit pure fire. Dr. Jamal Bryant, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, gave the people a two-minute-and-16-second analysis of race and politics in the South, highlighting historic wins of Warnock, Sen. Jon Ossoff, and President Joe Biden, whose presidential victory in Georgia represented the first time the state has backed a Democrat for president since Bill Clinton in 1992.
“Ladies and gentlemen, when the Republican Party of Georgia moved Herschel Walker from Texas to Georgia so that he could run for Senate, it’s because change was taken too fast in the post-antebellum south,” Bryant said during a Sunday service. “The state had been flipped blue, and there are some principalities that were not prepared for a Black man and a Jewish man to go to Senate at the exact same time, so they figured that they would delude us by picking somebody that they thought would in fact represent us better with a football than with a degree in philosophy.”
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And football is the only qualification Walker has for running for office, if it can be considered such. A former NFL running back, Walker lied that he had graduated from the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. In reality, he opted to play football professionally and dropped out after his junior season.
He also lied about being a sheriff, even sporting a fake badge during a debate with Warnock, and in an even more recent claim, the “pro-lifer” denied accusations from two women who say Walker encouraged them to have abortions.
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Lying is about the only thing voters can depend on Walker to do. Yet somehow, Republicans are considering him a worthy opponent to the man who unseated former Sen. Kelly Loeffler last year.
Donning a sweater with letters of the historically Black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi, Bryant was there to remind his congregation that even though they both have Black skin, Walker and Warnock are far from equally yoked, as Republicans would have the public believe.
“They thought we were so slow, that we were so stupid that we would elect the lowest caricature of a stereotypical broken Black man as opposed to somebody who is educated and erudite and focused,” Bryant said. “Y’all ain’t ready for me today.”
Bryant continued:
“Since Herschel Walker was 16 years old, white men been telling him what to do, telling him what school to go to, where to live, where to eat, where to buy a house, where to run, where to sit down, where to sleep, where to pay for abortions, where to buy a gun, and you think they not gon tell him how to vote in 2022? We don’t need a Walker. We need a runner. We need somebody who gon run and tell the truth about January 6. We need somebody who gon run and push for the cancellation of student loan debt. We need somebody who gon run and make the former president respond to a subpoena. We don’t need a Walker. We need somebody who will be steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding, knowing that your labor is not in vain. Georgia, I need you to know, the slave negroes y’all are used to don’t live here no more. We can think for ourselves, function for ourselves, and vote for ourselves.”
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