“Says Raphael Warnock defended the “hatred” of Jeremiah Wright, the pastor who said “not God bless America, God damn America,” and gave Wright “an award for truth telling.”
What PolitiFact found
Warnock defended Wright’s “truth telling” about that mistreatment and said many people confused Black preachers’ moral outrage with hatred. A divinity school, not Warnock, honored Wright for his career in ministry.
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In short
Kelly Loeffler (U.S. senator, R-Ga.) made this claim around 13 November 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 December 2020, 18 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Kelly Loeffler has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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- Washington Post: Three Pinocchios“Warnock defended Jeremiah Wright’s hatred, then gave him an award for truth-telling. … Warnock celebrated anti-American hatred.”