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Kelly Loeffler’s Georgia Senate Campaign Is Built Solely On Racism
The Georgia Senate race has become a microcosm of white supremacy in America
Most of America found out about Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler last summer when WNBA stars from the Atlanta Dream — a team Loeffler owns — responded to her comments “adamantly” opposing the Black Lives Matter movement by wearing shirts supporting Raphael Warnock, who is running against her. A few months later, Loeffler is one-fourth of a battle for the future of politics in America. If Loeffler and her Republican peer David Perdue lose their respective Senate races, then the Senate flips blue and Mitch McConnell will no longer hold America hostage.
Loeffler has chosen to forge a campaign against Warnock — a Black pastor — that leverages America’s history of racism and fear of Black men. Loeffler has used the language of fear and violence to address Warnock at every turn. During their debate last year, she referred to him as some variant of “Radical Warnock” instead of his actual title, “Reverend” (this, of course, went unmentioned among supposed evangelical Christian supporters). Her official website even has a tab that simply says “Radical Warnock.”
The ads, though, are worse. Every ad about Warnock—which, if you live in Georgia, airs during every…
