(06-21-2021 01:08 PM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Wow! There are still all-white beach clubs?

And that's wrong, why? There's tv networks that are all Black. Has anyone raised an issue about that?

I'm not defending this club but there shouldn't be any hypocrisy from any other race. There's the NAACP, the Lulac, that club mentioned, BET network.

(06-21-2021 05:10 PM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  If you haven't noticed yet, I don't really care what you believe. ;-)

This post was made at 4:10 pm. Where does a dentist find time to be reading and posting on this site. If he's a dentist, I'm an ex-astronaut.

(06-21-2021 01:08 PM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Wow! There are still all-white beach clubs?

Yep. People of all racial backgrounds tend to segregate themselves privately. Is it a cool thing to do? Probably not. The real problem here is the hypocrisy(and stupidity) of this Senator. He knew of this issue 4 years ago and is still a member and yet stands on the floor of Congress and opposes such. He is a typical rich Liberal. Do as I say..not as I do.

(06-21-2021 06:15 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  

(06-21-2021 01:08 PM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Wow! There are still all-white beach clubs?

And that's wrong, why? There's tv networks that are all Black. Has anyone raised an issue about that?

I'm not defending this club but there shouldn't be any hypocrisy from any other race. There's the NAACP, the Lulac, that club mentioned, BET network.

The NAACP & LULAC don't prevent anyone from joining because of their race or ethnicity. The NAACP was founded by white people. BET doesn't exclude people by race either (if you can find it on your programming).

(06-21-2021 06:18 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  

(06-21-2021 05:10 PM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  If you haven't noticed yet, I don't really care what you believe. ;-)

This post was made at 4:10 pm. Where does a dentist find time to be reading and posting on this site. If he's a dentist, I'm an ex-astronaut.

5:10pm EST. There is a lot of waiting in dentistry. Waiting for the patient to get to and settle in the chair. Waiting on assistants. Waiting for a patient to get numb. Waiting for X-rays/scans.

Quote:The NAACP was created in 1909 by an interracial group consisting of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, and others concerned with the challenges facing African Americans, especially in the wake of the 1908 Springfield (Illinois) Race Riot.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nationa...red-People

A MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE

(06-21-2021 08:10 PM)green Wrote:  

Quote:The NAACP was created in 1909 by an interracial group consisting of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, and others concerned with the challenges facing African Americans, especially in the wake of the 1908 Springfield (Illinois) Race Riot.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nationa...red-People

A MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE

When he Googles a pic of Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey, it's founding president from 1909-1929.

(06-21-2021 06:02 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  Dems go after Augusta Golf Course and yet are members of this?
Dems are such Hypocrits.

Yankee Clubs can't be racist. After all, their ancestors sent their poor down South to die for their profits.............um, Abolishionist beliefs. Yankee racism is the purist most innocent form of racism.

Private club, they can do what they want.

(06-22-2021 08:57 AM)fsquid Wrote:  Private club, they can do what they want.

In a Libertarian World that would be true. We don't live in a Libertarian World though. The government might not swoop in, but someone will.

(06-22-2021 08:57 AM)fsquid Wrote:  Private club, they can do what they want.

I agree. Just like the Congressional Black Caucus.

(06-22-2021 08:57 AM)fsquid Wrote:  Private club, they can do what they want.

i agree, but the Senator appears to be full of it. i especially like his commitment after this issue came up before his last election to drop his membership.. so he transferred it to his wife.

if you have a principal you are going to stand on a platform and scream about, then follow it...

Still waiting for Nancy to drop her armed guards, and remove the wall around her house.

(06-22-2021 09:08 AM)Oman Wrote:  

(06-22-2021 08:57 AM)fsquid Wrote:  Private club, they can do what they want.

i agree, but the Senator appears to be full of it. i especially like his commitment after this issue came up before his last election to drop his membership.. so he transferred it to his wife.

if you have a principal you are going to stand on a platform and scream about, then follow it...

Still waiting for Nancy to drop her armed guards, and remove the wall around her house.

He's a politician, of course he is.

News Outlet Defends Senate Dem’s Membership in All-White Beach Club by Calling It ‘Elite’

Teenage girls of all races are no longer allowed to wear poofy dresses and be Azalea Bells in our town because those poofy dresses remind people too much of plantation culture.

But a sitting US Senator can be an active and participating member of an all white beach club because of "tradition"

Got it...Our Azalea Festival just needs to be more "elite" I guess

(06-21-2021 08:04 PM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  

(06-21-2021 06:15 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  

(06-21-2021 01:08 PM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Wow! There are still all-white beach clubs?

And that's wrong, why? There's tv networks that are all Black. Has anyone raised an issue about that?

I'm not defending this club but there shouldn't be any hypocrisy from any other race. There's the NAACP, the Lulac, that club mentioned, BET network.

The NAACP & LULAC don't prevent anyone from joining because of their race or ethnicity. The NAACP was founded by white people. BET doesn't exclude people by race either (if you can find it on your programming).

You ever been to church on Sunday?

(06-22-2021 09:41 AM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  News Outlet Defends Senate Dem’s Membership in All-White Beach Club by Calling It ‘Elite’

Well after reading up on it, sure seems pretty exclusive. Only 466 members.

NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus Silent About Democrat Senator’s Membership at All-White Club

Quote:Both the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Congressional Black Caucus were radio 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, GoLocal Providence first reported. While the 124-year-old club can’t legally mandate that its members be “all white,” its lack of diversity was first documented back in 2003 in the New York Times:

Diversity, of course, has made scant inroads on the Newport of Bailey’s Beach, whose membership profile might be defined less by who people are than what they are not. “Jewish, yes,” Audrey Oswald, a lifelong member replied, when asked about the club’s demographic composition. “Blacks, not really,” Ms. Oswald added[.]

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 when the reporter asked him if a wealthy, all-white club like Bailey’s should still exist in 2021.

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.

“I think it would be nice if they (Bailey’s Beach Club) changed a little bit, but it’s not my position,” Whitehouse told GoLocal Providence news editor Kate Nagle.

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, though “give up” is a technical term. Instead, he “resigned” in 2010 by transferring his membership to his wife, who is now one of this all-white club’s biggest shareholders, Breitbart News reported.

According to Vice Media, a Whitehouse spokesman insisted that Bailey’s Beach Club wasn’t all-white.

“But [he] repeatedly refused to offer any evidence of that claim or explain the apparent discrepancy between Whitehouse’s own remarks and his claim,” according to the report.

(06-22-2021 09:52 AM)solohawks Wrote:  Teenage girls of all races are no longer allowed to wear poofy dresses and be Azalea Bells in our town because those poofy dresses remind people too much of plantation culture.

But a sitting US Senator of the anti-racist party (FIFY) can be an active and participating member of an all white beach club because of "tradition"

Got it...Our Azalea Festival just needs to be more "elite" I guess

https://twitter.com/LisaMarieBoothe/stat...2142370818

GET IT GOT IT GOOD

(06-22-2021 10:09 AM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus Silent About Democrat Senator’s Membership at All-White Club

Quote:Both the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Congressional Black Caucus were radio 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, GoLocal Providence first reported. While the 124-year-old club can’t legally mandate that its members be “all white,” its lack of diversity was first documented back in 2003 in the New York Times:

Diversity, of course, has made scant inroads on the Newport of Bailey’s Beach, whose membership profile might be defined less by who people are than what they are not. “Jewish, yes,” Audrey Oswald, a lifelong member replied, when asked about the club’s demographic composition. “Blacks, not really,” Ms. Oswald added[.]

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 when the reporter asked him if a wealthy, all-white club like Bailey’s should still exist in 2021.

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.

“I think it would be nice if they (Bailey’s Beach Club) changed a little bit, but it’s not my position,” Whitehouse told GoLocal Providence news editor Kate Nagle.

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, though “give up” is a technical term. Instead, he “resigned” in 2010 by transferring his membership to his wife, who is now one of this all-white club’s biggest shareholders, Breitbart News reported.

According to Vice Media, a Whitehouse spokesman insisted that Bailey’s Beach Club wasn’t all-white.

“But [he] repeatedly refused to offer any evidence of that claim or explain the apparent discrepancy between Whitehouse’s own remarks and his claim,” according to the report.

They need to demand that he step down immediately!