He is endorsed by Donald Trump…
Some people question weither he can chew gum and walk at the same time…
A Perspective by Kevin B. Blackistone@ The Washington Post….
I feel as similarly sorry for Walker as for the fictional C.J. Memphis, for Walker — a good ol’ product of some small Southern town like C.J. — is no less an unknowing device for a part of White America attempting to nullify Black arguments for continued progress.
What Walker represents is the worst of our idolatry of sports stars.
This is a revelation about Walker that comes about as he makes the rounds as a U.S. senatorial candidate propped up by former president Donald Trump and reactionary republicans in Georgia in an attempt to unseat Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, the state’s first Black senator and the first Black Democratic senator from the South since Reconstruction. Ironically, Warnock was swept into office in January 2021 with a boost from athletic bona fides. Not his own, but those of WNBA players. They openly campaigned for Warnock against the senator he defeated, Kelly Loeffler, who at the time was a co-owner of the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream, where she caught the ire of league players for denouncing Black Lives Matter and backing antiabortion causes.
Walker’s sole qualification for Georgia’s electorate, however, is his athletic notoriety. He isn’t like Warnock, an ordained minister who pastors at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church made famous by a former pastor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., or thrice graduated — first from Morehouse and then Union Theological Seminary, where Warnock was awarded a master’s and PhD.
Indeed, Walker’s campaign managers late last year quietly scrubbed his biography of the claim he graduated from Georgia. He won a Heisman trophy there, but not a degree.
Walker is embarrassingly unqualified to be an elected official at any level, let alone in the U.S. Senate.
This is a revelation about Walker that comes about as he makes the rounds as a U.S. senatorial candidate propped up by former president Donald Trump and reactionary republicans in Georgia in an attempt to unseat Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, the state’s first Black senator and the first Black Democratic senator from the South since Reconstruction. Ironically, Warnock was swept into office in January 2021 with a boost from athletic bona fides. Not his own, but those of WNBA players. They openly campaigned for Warnock against the senator he defeated, Kelly Loeffler, who at the time was a co-owner of the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream, where she caught the ire of league players for denouncing Black Lives Matter and backing antiabortion causes….