{"id":569695,"date":"2021-06-21T15:52:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T19:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569695"},"modified":"2021-06-21T15:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T19:52:26","slug":"democrat-senator-sheldon-whitehouse-faces-backlash-over-membership-to-all-white-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-senator-sheldon-whitehouse-faces-backlash-over-membership-to-all-white-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Faces Backlash Over Membership To All-White Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-senator-sheldon-whitehouse-faces-backlash-over-membership-to-all-white-club%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569695&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/whitehouse-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) faced backlash after he defended belonging to an allegedly \u201call-white\u201d private beach club in Rhode Island last week right before Juneteenth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth Whitehouse and his wife Sandra as well as their families have been members of [the all-white private Bailey\u2019s Beach Club in Newport] for decades,\u201d GoLocalProv <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golocalprov.com\/news\/its-a-long-tradition-in-ri-whitehouse-defends-familys-membership-in-all-whi\">reported<\/a>. \u201cWhitehouse did transfer his shares in the club to his wife years ago, and she is now one of the largest shareholders in the all-white club. The club\u2019s membership is a who\u2019s who Newport, Palm Beach, and New York wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whitehouse defended his membership in the all-white club when confronted by a reporter on Friday, saying that it was \u201ca long tradition in Rhode Island.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whitehouse had the following interaction with the reporter:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"30\">\n<p><em>REPORTER: Back in 2017, you had expressed concerns about the membership of the all white Bally\u2019s Beach Club, you said that you hoped it would become more diverse. Now your family\u2019s been members, your wife is one of the largest shareholders. Has there been any traction in that? Are there any minority members of the club now?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WHITEHOUSE: I think the people who are running the place are still working on that. And I\u2019m sorry, it hasn\u2019t happened yet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>REPORTER: Do you have concerns in 2021? I mean, obviously, it\u2019s been four years, you had remarks on the floor following the death of Briana Taylor and George Floyd saying, you know, hoping to root out systemic racism in the country. Your thoughts on an elite all white wealthy club again in this day and age, you know, should these clubs continue to exist?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WHITEHOUSE: It\u2019s 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.8532110091743\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse defends belonging to a whites-only beach club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a long tradition in Rhode Island.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Disgusting! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mtW1b5tfuJ\">pic.twitter.com\/mtW1b5tfuJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1406994930615177220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Whitehouse was slammed online by commentators from across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSen. Sheldon Whitehouse is a member of a whites-only beach club, the Gov of Virginia either wore black face or a Ku Klux Klan robe, and Joe Biden said he didn\u2019t want his kids to grow up in a racial jungle,\u201d Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LisaMarieBoothe\/status\/1407032172142370818\">said<\/a>. \u201cBut Democrats want to lecture about racism in America\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t exactly say Sen. Whitehouse seems particularly concerned or even interested about the fact he continues to belong an all-white club (which his wife owns a large part of),\u201d leftist Glenn Greenwald <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1406989478519095300\">said<\/a>. \u201cAs always, judge a person by the acts that compose their life, not the public rhetoric they spew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Dem senators defend their all-white private beach clubs,\u201d Newsmax host Steve Cortes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CortesSteve\/status\/1406975610841350146\">said<\/a>. \u201cBut we America First nationalists \u2014 we\u2019re the racists \u2014 for insisting on protecting the American working class (much of which is black and brown citizens) against illegal immigrant workers?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenM\/status\/1407038912011423750\">said<\/a>, \u201cNothing is preventing @SenWhitehouse from voluntarily giving up his membership in favor of a deserving minority family\u2014unless Whitehouse believes he\u2019s entitled to his membership in a private beach club?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) faced backlash after he defended belonging to an allegedly \u201call-white\u201d private beach club in Rhode Island last week right before Juneteenth.\u201cBoth Whitehouse and his wife &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280890,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/whitehouse-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Faces Backlash Over Membership To All-White Club","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/whitehouse-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Faces Backlash Over Membership To All-White Club","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}