Jackie Calmes: Warnock won and Walker lost because voters judged on character
Even in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream — "one day, on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood" — the civil rights martyr didn't foresee that in his children's lifetime, two descendants of enslaved people would be the only nominees at the table in a U.S. Senate election. In Georgia!
But was it really progress that put two Black men — Sen. Raphael Warnock, the Democrat who won Tuesday's runoff, to run against Warnock, the senior pastor at Dr. King's Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. called Walker's candidacy tokenism and "an insult to Black people," given his evident unfitness for the office.
