Democrats have one set of rules for you and another one for themselves. They call Republicans racist yet their former Majority Leader, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, was a Grand Kleagle in the Klu Klux Klan. They worship at the altar of BLM, yet they are the party of slavery, the aforementioned Klan, Jim Crow, the Great Society, and now critical race theory. A perfect example of their hypocrisy? Meet Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, apparently named after an office he’ll never sit in.
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, his wife & their families have been members of an all-white private beach club for decades.
“It’s a long tradition in Rhode Island & there are many of them & I think we just need to work our way through the issues,” @SenWhitehouse said https://t.co/EA7rnkRiAX pic.twitter.com/gwaphKBYWq
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) June 20, 2021
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FNC: “Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse last week refused to apologize for his family’s membership in a reportedly all-White beach club in his home state of Rhode Island, calling beach clubs ‘a long tradition’ and saying he hopes the club will admit minority members soon…Whitehouse, one of the most vocal Democrats on the high-profile Senate Judiciary Committee, said on the anniversary of George Floyd’s death late last month that his committee is ‘working… to bring lasting change’ on ‘racial injustice.’…Whitehouse, D-R.I., was asked about his family’s membership in Bailey’s Beach Club, officially known as Spouting Rock Beach Association, by GoLocalProv in a video that was posted on Saturday. The interviewer cited comments Whitehouse made in 2017 that he hoped the highly-exclusive club would begin to accept minority members and asked Whitehouse’s reaction to it allegedly not doing so. The New York Times further reported that Bailey’s is ‘a world of emerald-barnacled dinosaurs attended by uniformed retainers and underwritten by ironclad fiduciary trusts’ where ‘diversity… has made scant inroads.’ According to the paper, the biracial grandchildren of one member sometimes visited the resort, and it did allow Jewish members. But, according to one lifelong member quoted by The Times, Black people were ‘not really’ welcome.” Ah, so much for “lasting change on racial injustice.”
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“I think the people who are running the place are still working on that and I’m sorry it hasn’t happened yet,” Whitehouse said. Not sorry enough to resign from the club. GoLocalProv asked Whitehouse whether exclusive clubs with all white members should “continue to exist.” His response? “It’s a long tradition in Rhode Island and there are many of them and we just need to work our way through the issues,” Whitehouse said. Funny, wonder if he talked about “working through the issues” during last year’s BLM riots? We doubt it, as we sincerely doubt any real commitment the Senator has to civil rights.
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