Raphael Warnock

I think part of that was a game they played during the election in 24.

I think they were trying to create a permission structure, a bandwagon, so people would jump on it.

But they weren't overwhelming.

One is too many, but there weren't any overwhelming numbers of Black men voting for Donald Trump.

Well, thank you so much.

I think I should tell your viewers that honestly, I didn't tell you to ask me about my new book.

Well, you know, I return every Sunday morning to my pulpit.

I still lead Ebenezer Baptist Church where Dr. King preached.

And I have been preaching a sermon literally for the last few years in my own pulpit and pulpits all across the country.

Churches, some temples, and some other places, rural communities.

Anyway, but it's based on this line from Isaiah that,

that Dr. King used to quote sometimes in his sermons, every valley shall be exalted, every mountain and hill made low, the crooked places shall be made straight, and the rough places smooth, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

It's a kind of a vision.

It's a grand vision, what I call a moral topography, a new way of thinking about who we are for one another or re-imagining of ourselves.

And so I've got this book coming out.

Thanks, John.

On June 16th called The Crooked Places Made Straight, Reflections on the Moral Meaning of America.

As we go into the 250th anniversary, I use these sort of,

images, wonderful environmental images, if you will, as a way of talking about equity.

The valley shall be exalted, mountains made low, putting us on a level playing field.