A SENATE CANDIDATE TO MAKE LOUIS FARRAKHAN PROUD

Raphael Warnock's embrace of anti-Semite Farrakhan is disqualifying for Senate service

 

Washington Examiner

December 17, 2020 

 

It was once said of a famously vulnerable Senate candidate that, with respect to the opposition research that could be used against her in a campaign, “there’s a haystack of needles.” In other words, there was a wealth of material.

This appears to be the case as well with Raphael Warnock, the candidate around whom Democratic voters consolidated during the Nov. 3 special Senate election in Georgia. We have written previously on the problems Warnock faced due to his warm feelings for Fidel Castro and his anti-Israel, pro-terrorist radicalism. We have mentioned his warm embrace of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright just at the moment when that infamous cleric’s “God Damn America” sermon sent candidate Barack Obama running away from him in terror.

But Warnock’s accompanying embrace of the overtly and proudly anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan is surely a bridge too far for decent human beings to support him.

Warnock praised Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam at a public forum in 2013, declaring that “we’ve needed the witness of the Nation of Islam” because the Jesus Christ-believing brand of Christianity was, in fact, “a slave religion ... the white man’s religion.” As Warnock put it:

“Its voice has been important even for the development of black theology because it was the Black Muslims who challenged black preachers and said that ‘you’re promulgating … the white man’s religion. That’s a slave religion. You’re telling people to focus on heaven; meanwhile, they’re catching hell.’ We’ve needed the witness of the Nation of Islam, in a real sense, to put a fire under us and keep us honest about the meaning of the proclamation coming from our pulpits.” 

 

At the time Warnock was praising Farrakhan’s detestable organization, Farrakhan was unapologetically spreading detestable lies about what he called “Jewish, anti-black behavior,” blaming Jews for “the transatlantic slave trade, plantation slavery, Jim Crow, sharecropping, the labor movement of the North and South, the unions, and the misuse of our people that continues to this very moment.”

Somehow, Warnock has nice things to say about such odious figures as Farrakhan, Wright, and Castro, but he believes Republicans are “gangsters and thugs” for something as mundane as passing the tax reform bill of 2017, which actually helped lower-income earners and forced the wealthy to pay a higher share of the tax burden.

This all only adds to existing concerns about Warnock’s extremism. And these concerns must be understood to come on top of a further concern that is especially relevant given the exposure and public discussion of abuse issues in the Catholic Church.

Warnock still has not adequately explained his interference in a police investigation of child abuse at a camp where he served in a leadership role. Warnock has claimed that he was merely trying to make sure the children speaking to police had attorneys. But the facts of the case, as noted by police at the time, point to a very different explanation. Warnock appears to have been trying to cover for the camp. He wanted to make sure camp staff and their representatives were present for all interviews about the allegations. His efforts, which led to his arrest, appear to be geared toward making the minors less able to speak freely to investigators without intimidation about what had happened.

Warnock is an embarrassment in too many ways to count. But his willing attachment to Farrakhan should be disgusting to anyone, regardless of political stripe. Georgians should not let him embarrass them in the U.S. Senate.