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Dr. Raphael Warnock received the disturbing news on Thursday morning — someone had draped four Confederate flags around the campus of his church in Atlanta.
It would be unnerving for any black church to find Confederate flags on its grounds. But this was the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, the spiritual home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It’swhere the beloved civil rights leader was baptized, preached fiery sermons on freedom, and eulogized after his death.
It’s very clear for Warnock that the perpetrators — who, according to security tape, may have been two white men — were motivated by hatred. One of the flags was planted right underneath a sign that said, “Black Lives Matter.”
“Perhaps the message is that black lives don’t matter,” Warnock told HuffPost. “I certainly view this as a cowardly act by misguided individuals.”
Activists on Twitter seemed to agree.
