After Atlanta taking pictures, Warnock addresses Senate—whereas his children are in lockdown

Warnock then touched on his private connection to the occasion in Atlanta: “I’ve two babies, and their colleges are on lockdown responding to this tragedy. They’re there. I am right here, hoping and praying that they’re protected. However the fact is, none of us is protected.” However, Warnock pressed, what are leaders going to do?

The senator additionally asserted that the fixed chorus of “ideas and prayers,” spoken aloud so typically by leaders who sit on their arms whereas kids bleed out in colleges and within the streets, is hole. The observe of claiming it aloud, Warnock argues, devalues the religious observe of each. “It’s to make a mockery of prayer. It’s to trivialize religion,” he mentioned.