{"id":570646,"date":"2021-06-22T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T19:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=570646"},"modified":"2021-06-22T15:21:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T19:21:11","slug":"rhode-island-blm-chapters-criticize-sheldon-whitehouse-for-defending-membership-to-all-white-beach-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rhode-island-blm-chapters-criticize-sheldon-whitehouse-for-defending-membership-to-all-white-beach-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island BLM Chapters Criticize Sheldon Whitehouse For Defending Membership To All-White Beach Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Frhode-island-blm-chapters-criticize-sheldon-whitehouse-for-defending-membership-to-all-white-beach-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=570646&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-e1624387200123.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Local Black Lives Matter chapters have criticized Democratic Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse for defending his membership to an exclusive, historically all-white private beach club in Newport.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of two separate BLM groups in the Ocean State had strong words for the senator on his longtime involvement in the Bailey\u2019s Beach Club, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golocalprov.com\/news\/blm-blasts-whitehouse-i-am-ashamed-of-senator-and-his-affiliation-with-this\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoLocal Providence<\/a> reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am ashamed of Senator Whitehouse and his affiliation with this racist club. Him coming out and speaking about ending systemic racism while belonging to a \u2018whites only\u2019 private club is hypocrisy at its worst,\u201d Gary Dantzler, executive director of Black Lives Matter Rhode Island, told the outlet of the senator\u2019s comments Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to put an end to this good ole boy mentality and hold our elected officials accountable,\u201d Dantzler reportedly continued. \u201cBlack Lives Matter Rhode Island expects the Senator to call this what it is; Jim Crow era racism that\u2019s been lingering around the Black community like a plague. It\u2019s time for real change and equity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo more hiding behind empty words,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison Tuttle, the executive director of the BLM RI PAC, also reportedly criticized Whitehouse and called on him to take the lead on change at Bailey\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSen. Whitehouse declining to push to diversify the all-white Bailey\u2019s Beach Club shows where his priorities lay,\u201d Tuttle said, according to GoLocal Providence. \u201cAfter a year of protests calling for change, Sen. Whitehouse is in a position to make it happen and has passed the buck. It\u2019s past time that Sen. Whitehouse used his platform and make his actions match his rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSen. Whitehouse should publicly and vigorously support increased diversity and accessibility and clubs like his, which have long held shut their doors to people of color,\u201d Tuttle added. <strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/10\/sheldon-whitehouse-dark-money-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Sheldon Whitehouse Invited Three Witnesses To Testify Against Dark Money \u2014 They All Work For Dark Money Groups)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whitehouse came under fire over the weekend after a GoLocal Providence reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/21\/sheldon-whitehouse-defends-membership-white-beach-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">questioned<\/a> his membership to the club, of which the senator\u2019s wife is also one of its largest shareholders. Whitehouse defended the club as being a \u201clong tradition\u201d in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the people who are running the place are still working on that and I\u2019m sorry it hasn\u2019t happened yet,\u201d Whitehouse said of its lack of diversity.<\/p>\n<p>GoLocal Providence had previously raised the issue with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/17\/democratic-senator-claims-rant-during-barrett-confirmation-is-reason-court-upheld-obamacare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whitehouse<\/a> in 2017 and also describes the club as \u201cthe most exclusive club in America,\u201d with membership limited to a \u201cwho\u2019s who Newport, Palm Beach, and New York wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whitehouse also reportedly said he would end his involvement with Bailey\u2019s when first running for the Senate in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Black Lives Matter chapters have criticized Democratic Rhode Island Sen. 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