André Leon Talley

André Leon Talley Instagram – The true American Dream achieved: Senator-elect, Rev. Raphael Warnock, of the great state of Georgia.
He is the first African-American man to be elected to the senate from the peach state. There have been only 11
black senators in the entire history of this country. He was the young assistant minister at The Abyssinian Baptist Church, when I joined in 1989. His mother,VerlenreWarnock, had 12 children; he grew up in the hardscrabble public housing in Savannah, Georgia. He attended Morehouse College, earned four degrees and is pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, in Atlanta, GA. Warnock has 4 degrees, yet his most accomplished degree is one of his faith. Notice how measured he is in his delivery, his eloquence. I know him, he is a decent, honorable, and a man full of empathy. “Your vote is your voice; your voice is your dignity,”says Reverend Warnock. The last time I saw him, before the Pandemic, years ago, was on a long, long line in the Atlanta Airport, waiting to go through the checkpoint. His tsunami smile burst across his face as he greeted me from afar. He has created history in the last 72 hours; gaining over 50 thousand votes over a blond white lady, who throughout a debate kept calling him, ” A radical , socialist.” He never lost his cool, he never clapped back, he never rose to the ire or disdain of an angry black man. . His mother, who is 82 years old, (as he said so beautifully last nite having seen the moutnaintop and having witnessed weeping through the darknest night, he knew that joy was coming in the morning. :
“whose hands picked somebody else’s cotton; and who gave birth to 12 children!) got to vote for her son, to go to the U.S. Senate. What a dream. As Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said; “I have a dream.” #TheChiffonTrenches #ebenezerbaptistchurch #raphaelwarnock #atlanta #georgia #vote #blm #faith | Posted on 06/Jan/2021 22:36:54