Martin Luther King Jr.: 2021

In this year alone, voters from the State of Georgia made history by electing two new senators, Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock, to replace the state’s incumbent office holders. Rev. Warnock, like Dr. King, is a graduate of Morehouse College, a small liberal arts school known for infusing moral leadership in every aspect of its curriculum. He has also followed Dr. King’s path in pastoring the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.

Such symbolism seems almost made up. See also, this discussion of a previous black member of the Senate and the rejection of Dred Scott.