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Raphael Warnock honors the journey of his 82-year-old mother, who as a teen ‘used to pick somebody else’s cotton’ Verlene Warnock spent her summers picking cotton and tobacco as a teen in Waycross, Georgia, in the 1950s before becoming a pastor. “Because this is America, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a United States senator,” Warnock said in a speech shortly after midnight Wednesday. Her story was n...

ADVERTISEMENT He also discussed his late father, Jonathan Warnock, who he noted was a veteran, a small-business owner and a pastor, as well as his mother, who, as “a teenager growing up in Waycross, Georgia, used to pick somebody else’s cotton.”  “But the other day, because this is America, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a United States senator,” he said. “So, I come before you tonight as a man,...

Raphael Warnocks father: The other radical pastor behind the US Senate bid in Georgia CNN 12/20/2020 © Courtesy Raphael Warnock Raphael Warnock with his father, Jonathan Warnock, who died in 2010. His opponent calls Rev. Raphael Warnock an unpatriotic radical who celebrated the "hatred" of a fiery Black pastor who, in a notorious sermon, once declared that God damned America. But theres another, little-known pastor who inspired Warnock, the Democratic nominee for Georgias upcoming Senate...