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Warnock's sermon in 2016 lamented the popularity of then-candidate Donald Trump, whom Warnock saw as the embodiment of the nation's ills. And the tower tumbles,” he said.įact check: 'Kingdom of God' comment by Amy Coney Barrett lacks context in meme Our rating: Missing context

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When the quality of your education and access to basic health care is a function of your ZIP code, the whole city suffers. “We have constructed towers of domination that lift up a few, structures of evil that God never intended in the first place. God made us, but we make stuff up,” Warnock said. Race is not a biological factor, it’s a sociological construct. It’s called bigotry, it’s called racism and sexism and misogyny and xenophobia. Georgia runoffs: Faith takes the forefront as Georgia Senate runoffs heat up Referencing Genesis 11, Warnock compared the country’s ostensible valuing of “whiteness” to the Biblical story of the failed construction of the Tower of Babel, in which humans attempted to build a tower to reach heaven out of arrogance. “God made all human beings in God’s image,” Warnock said, arguing it was humans who decided “some human beings are better than other human beings.” Somebody lied and told them that diversity was a threat to their identity,” Warnock said. “Somebody lied and told them that uniformity, that sameness, homogeneity, was the key to their survival. Georgia debate: Kelly Loeffler, Raphael Warnock stick to script in Georgia Senate runoff debate

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America needs to repent for its worship of whiteness on full display this season,” he said. “No matter what happens next month, the more than a third of the nation that would go along with this is reason to be afraid. Warnock condemned Trump's comments about Latinos, Muslims and other racial and ethnic minorities. Warnock said the USA “worships” attributes such as wealth, power and “whiteness,” which Warnock saw as at odds with Christian teachings. “If it is true that a man who has dominated the news and poisoned the discussion for months needs to repent, then it is doubly true that a nation that can produce such a man and make his vitriol go viral needs to repent,” he said.

Georgia runoffs: Warnock's allies warn of backlash in runoff race over sermon attacks The sermon, titled “ How Towers Tumble,” did not mention Trump by name but alluded to his actions and candidacy, calling on the country to “repent” for its support of the candidate. Sen. Loeffler: 'Not familiar' with Trump's infamous 2005 'Access Hollywood' tape He delivered his comments on “whiteness” in October 2016 in a sermon during the presidential campaign after the revelation that candidate Donald Trump made derogatory comments about women on a recording dubbed the “ Access Hollywood tape.” Out of context, Warnock’s comments about “whiteness” have been used to suggest he attacked white people. Warnock is the pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, which civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. Regardless of the utility of “whiteness” as a concept, it does not refer to specific people who may identify or be seen as “white.” Warnock’s comments were not advocating anti-white bias.įact check: Post linking Illinois' COVID-19 lockdowns, income tax is missing context Warnock’s 'How Towers Tumble' sermon Warnock was trying to speak to is how Donald Trump as a candidate appealed to whiteness, the threat of status loss embodied by having a woman run against him in an increasingly diverse society," Gillespie said. The term "whiteness" has been in use for decades and is often connected with notions of white privilege and systemic racism. "But he is trying to offer a very pointed critique of a white supremacist culture that privileges whiteness above all other types of people," she said. “It is not meant to be a structural attack on white people,” Andra Gillespie, a political scientist and director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Race and Difference at Emory University, told USA TODAY.