5 reactions to Rev. Raphael Warnock’s historic election as Georgia’s first black senator

By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter FacebookTwitter

1. The Atlantic writer Emma Green praised Warnock’s win as the election of a “progressive, black, vocal, Christian” voice to the U.S. Senate.

Rev. Raphael Warnock, a pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s old church, holds a sign that quotes the former civil rights icon: 'Of all forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane,' at a Moral Monday Georgia protest at the Georgia Capitol, March 18, 2014, Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. Raphael Warnock, a pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s old church, holds a sign that quotes the former civil rights icon: "Of all forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane," at a Moral Monday Georgia protest at the Georgia Capitol, March 18, 2014, Atlanta, Ga. | (Photo: Creative Loafing/Joeff Davis)

“When I profiled @ReverendWarnock, he was game to talk policy, but he lit up when I asked about the Bible, Jesus's vision of justice, and what it means to lead prophetically. Georgia just elected a progressive, Black, vocal Christian to the U.S. Senate,” Green said on Twitter.

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