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There is poetry in history. @ReverendWarnock will be just the 11th Black U.S. Senator, Georgia’s first, and the 4th from the South. The first two served during Reconstruction from the then-liberal, anti-slavery Republican Party. The third emerged from the anti-Obama tea party.
If @ossoff holds onto his lead, which mathematically seems likely, the Senate caucus from Georgia will resemble the coalition that defined the civil rights movement: a Black pastor (from Dr. King’s church home no less!) and the young, Jewish former aide to the great John Lewis.
And then Mitch McConnell — the man who all-but declared it his mission to destroy the first Black president, will be consigned to the minority; unable to thwart the man who was Barack Obama’s vice president, because a Black woman vice president wields the tie-breaking vote.
And the party of voter suppression will have been defeated by their would-be victims: determined, indefatigable nonwhite voters — led to Black women warriors like @staceyabrams and @MsLaToshaBrown, who can replicate this formula elsewhere in the country and yes in the south.
Poetry. And also karma, as Republican Senators prepare to put on a vulgar, anti-democratic display in the Senate, objecting to the votes of nonwhite voters in multiple states, that defeated a white nationalist president.
