Posted on 07/29/2021 9:29:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Black Lives Matter Rhode Island chapter is demanding Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse cut all ties with an exclusive Newport beach club or resign.
"This is an issue that’s not going to go away, and Senator Whitehouse needs to address it. He needs to take it on," the group’s Mark Fisher told ABC6 on Wednesday. "If he thinks we’re just going to forget about it, if he thinks that it’s going to get swept under the rug, it’s not."
Whitehouse came under fire in June after he accepted a local reporter’s premise that the Bailey’s Beach Club, of which his wife and family are members, had no minority members. He said at the time that all-White clubs are "a long tradition in Rhode Island" and that he was "sorry" things hadn't yet changed.
Bailey's Beach has since fought back against the claim that it is all-White, stating on June 23 that its members include "people of many racial, religious, and ethnic backgrounds."
Whitehouse later said that he was not a member of the club and that he would not attempt to persuade his wife and family to leave the club, saying they were "on the right side of pushing for improvements." (The senator is still able to attend the club through his family's membership.)
He also apologized for "failing to address" the lack of diversity in a separate sailing club to which he does belong.
"The recent attention to this issue has prompted me to assess all my affiliations and to consider whether any involve inequitable or exclusionary policies. While I am not a member of the beach club, I do own a boat and belong to a sailing club in Newport," he said June 23. "While this club does not have exclusionary rules for membership, it does lack diversity."
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Fisher of Black Lives Matter Rhode Island said the group is giving Whitehouse until next Friday to put out a statement announcing his family members have left Bailey's Beach Club. If he doesn't, Fisher said his group will start protesting.
"We'll go to his club, we'll go to his office, we'll go to his home," he told ABC6, "wherever we need to go."
So, does this mean that white congressmen and women should be able to join the Congressional Black Caucus? Isn't that an exclusive club as well?
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Petard, meet hoist.
This is excellent.
They should also demand the Senator and his family should renounce (and then change) their racist family name!
BLM has what? About 8 actual blacks all millionaires in it. The rest are all a bunch of sjw white bread cracked running that show.
I am not a member but I enjoy full privileges
How many black people want to actually join these clubs? Maybe,, just maybe, black people of Rhode Island are not interested in sailing or being around a bunch of snooty rich white people who would tell them, “I am your ally” every two minutes.
What’s it their business where he spends his leisure time? Let alone for them to force him to change his personal life to suit THEIR narrative?
Does anyone know about Fisher’s background such as membership in the Democratic Socialists of America, Freedom Road Socialist Organization (now often called “state name/place name” and “Voters Movement”, or the Marxist “Working Families Party”?
Too many Mark Fisher’s in politics to find out about this guy’s political affiliations on a national level.
Will BLM be applauding Trump for desegregating resorts?
“I am not a member but I enjoy full privileges”
Outhouse knows how to play word games.
Yeah, they accept not only pale-skinned people of pure English ancestry who belong to the Episcopalian Church and who identify as "White," but also blue-eyed, blond people of Welsh extraction who belong to the Methodist Church, and red-headed Scotsmen who belong to the Church of Scotland.
So, really a lot of diversity there, folks! Nothing to see here! Move on!
Regards,
The probably accept darker skinned Spanish or Portuguese as long as the applicant can show evidence of lineage to a signatory of the Treaty of Tordesillas. ;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas
They may have some Black Irish (must be Protestant, though) as well.
Karma. imho, Whitehouse is one nasty, obnoxious Democrat/liberal.
When the BLM starts supporting you then they can tell you what to do until then shut up and piss off.
We want the BLM to harass Whitehouse—it is a circular firing squad of our enemies.
Whitehouse owns BLM it’s why they don’t get stopped with the crimes aka Army.
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