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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 not uncommon. In the Jim Crow South, many poor Black people built savings by working in the fields be...

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, who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this historic moment in America ...

Raphael Warnock's 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 there's another, little-known pastor who inspired Warnock, the Democratic nominee for Georgia's upcoming Senate runoff election. Critics never seem to mention him, but this pastor was also radical in his ow...