{"id":4024,"date":"2021-06-21T12:01:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T19:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2021-06-21T12:01:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T19:01:48","slug":"a-problem-of-racism-on-the-senate-judiciary-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=4024","title":{"rendered":"A Problem of Racism on the Senate Judiciary Committee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days after the first national celebration of Juneteenth, you probably thought we were past the time when United States senators, particularly on the Judiciary Committee charged with helping to guarantee civil rights, would be members of fancy all-white clubs.\u00a0 Indeed, until just now, I wasn&#8217;t aware that all-while clubs still existed.<\/p>\n<p>Time to wake up.\u00a0 Meet Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, former US Attorney for Rhode Island and now Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From the NY Post, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/21\/sheldon-whitehouse-under-fire-for-membership-at-all-white-club\/?fbclid=IwAR1uxzxCPLJoGDBPYxrUDMx5-92MGc2_yQHc3qYJMVqM6QqmT4NvDrIuRHQ\">this eye-opener<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 \u201csystemic racism\u201d \u2014 dismissing membership based on race as \u201ca long tradition in Rhode Island.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s membership at Newport-based Bailey\u2019s Beach Club, part of the Spouting Rock Beach Association.<\/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 the progressive pol told the reporter after being asked of the club\u2019s lack of any diversity whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if such clubs should continue to exist at a time when the country is having a racial reckoning, Whitehouse replied, \u201cIt\u2019s a long tradition in Rhode Island, and there are many of them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone care to take a guess what the reaction would have been if Jeff Sessions had given an answer like that at his confirmation to be Attorney General (not that Sessions ever belonged to an all-white club to begin with)?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAnd I think we just need to work our way through the issues,\u201d he added before leaving the scene.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For sure, &#8220;work our way through the issues.&#8221;\u00a0 When I woke up this morning, I thought it was 2021, not 1961.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While Whitehouse appeared to dismiss the club\u2019s circumstances, his wife, Sandra Whitehouse, is one of the three largest shareholders in the club.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>GoLocal [a Rhode Island newpaper] pressed Whitehouse and his office over his membership multiple times in 2017, noting that more than a decade had passed since his unkept campaign promise.<\/p>\n<p>After the lawmaker repeatedly declined requests for comment on his involvement in the club, a GoLocal reporter confronted Whitehouse at a Newport-based event in late August of that year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it would be nice if they changed a little bit, but it\u2019s not my position,\u201d the left-wing senator told the outlet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s not his position.\u00a0 It&#8217;s George Wallace&#8217;s position.\u00a0 Not that George Wallace could ever afford a club like this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Asked if he intended to pressure the club to do better on diversity, Whitehouse replied, \u201cI will take that up privately,\u201d before declining to comment on the matter further.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days after the first national celebration of Juneteenth, you probably thought we were past the time when United States senators, particularly on the Judiciary Committee charged with helping to guarantee civil rights, would be members of fancy all-white clubs.\u00a0 Indeed, until just now, I wasn&#8217;t aware that all-while clubs still existed. 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