Benjiman Jealous, former head of NAACP
Posted on 06/22/2021 9:20:12 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Both the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus were silent on Monday after news broke that Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) defended his membership to an elite, all-white beach club.
Breitbart News reached out to both the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus for comment regarding Whitehouse’s extra-curricular activities. Neither organization responded.
Whitehouse, who decried systemic racism following the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, has frequented Bailey Beach Club for decades . While the 124-year-old club can’t legally mandate its members be “all white,” its lack of diversity was first documented back in 2003 in the New York Times:
Whitehouse defended his Bailey Beach Club membership, officially known as the Spouting Rock Beach Association, to a reporter on the eve of Juneteenth National Independence Day.
“It’s a long tradition in Rhode Island and there are many of them and I think we just need to work our way through the issues, thank you,” Whitehouse said .
GoLocal Providence first began reporting on Whitehouse’s membership in 2017, but he and his staff “repeatedly refused to respond to questions” about his membership at an event in Newport. When asked if he would pressure the club to push for diversity at the all-white club], Whitehouse said, “I will take that up privately.” He then told Nagle he had no further comment and walked away.
Whitehouse reportedly promised to give up his membership in 2006 . Instead, he “resigned” in 2010 by transferring his membership to his wife, who is now one of this all-white club’s biggest shareholders .
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I saw this Rhode Island fraud interviewed. He was practically laughing. He knows the idiots in his state will reelect him they don’t care what he does, I doubt they even know who he is except for a Democrat.
Oh the irony of that headline! They had damn well be silent about it. Frickkin black supremacists.
The media and liberals would consider this a crime against humanity, if a Republican belonged to such a club. I think we all know that. Since it’s one of their own, this will not be held against him.
Selective criticism is this guy’s motto!
All White clubs should be against the equal protection act. It’s a disgrace and should be illegal. Trump purchased golf clubs like this and immediately integrated them.
NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus Silent About Democrat Senator’s Membership at All-White Club
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Color me shocked.
Well, we certainly know who the caucus believes to be its daddy, now don’t we?
All white beach club caucus.
. . . The same reaction as they had about Sen. Byrd and his membership in the KKK.
There used to be a useful distinction between Democrat and Communist.
All black club silent about all white club.
“The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.”
The hypocrisy is breathtaking.....................
Outrage over that sort of thing is directed ONLY at Republicans.
Any white people in the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus?.
The racist blacks and the racist whites stick together. They support each other.
Benjiman Jealous, former head of NAACP
Isn’t the Congressional Black Caucus all one color?
Why would they have a problem with that?
former What about now?.
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