Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) Pressed (Again) About Membership At All-White Beach Club

Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island is coming under fire (again) for being a member of an all-white beach club.

Whitehouse promised to help integrate the club during his senate campaign in 2006.

I was 5 years old in 2006, so this is a new story to me.

One thing about modern politics that I find super fascinating is the hypocrisy of cancel culture. Who decides when and where someone gets cancelled?

Ellie Kemper got cancelled for virtually the same thing a few weeks ago and had to publicly apologize and promise to change her ways.

I doubt we’ll see the same thing from Whitehouse since he’s been promising change for 15 years now…

His wife, Sandra Thornton Whitehouse, is one of the club’s largest shareholders for crying out loud! If they wanted to change anything, I’m sure 15 years would have been enough time.

If we’re supposed to be outraged by supposed racists, why does no one care about this?

Oh… we’re only doing that if it’s politically convenient?

Got it.

The New York Post had this to say:

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is facing new scrutiny over his decades-long membership in an all-white private beach club, as he bills himself as a progressive and prominent critic of “systemic racism” — dismissing membership based on race as “a long tradition in Rhode Island.”

Whitehouse (D-RI) was confronted Friday by a GoLocal Providence reporter, who published the video along with an article on Saturday detailing what occurred after asking about the senator’s membership at Newport-based Bailey’s Beach Club, part of the Spouting Rock Beach Association.

“I think the people who are running the place are still working on that and I’m sorry it hasn’t happened yet,” the progressive pol told the reporter after being asked of the club’s lack of any diversity whatsoever.

“And I think we just need to work our way through the issues,” he added before leaving the scene.

While Whitehouse appeared to dismiss the club’s circumstances, his wife, Sandra Whitehouse, is one of the three largest shareholders in the club.

When the Rhode Island senator, who was first elected in 2006, initially ran for his office, he disavowed his membership and pledged to quit the club, GoLocal reported.