I sat and pondered over this story popping up today....the Black Lives Matter crowd stood up and gave some warning to the Senator from Rhode Island....Sheldon Whitehouse.
So, apparently Whitehouse is a member of some exclusive and apparently controversial country club.
They (BLM) say Whitehouse has to quit (the club in question is the Bailey’s Beach Club). Failure to accomplish this? BLM just says they will make Whitehouse 'miserable'.
Now, for a guy from Alabama (which I am), I have to admit there are ten different levels of miserable. Some levels of miserable are like....well....just having one guy on the bus to fart, and you barely smell it. Other levels of miserable are like your house getting hit by lightning. So I'm kinda wondering about the intent here.
The thing is....if he is in DC most of the time....why bother paying some $3,000 to $10,000 a year for a place that you might only hang out for two times a year?
I was not privileged as a kid....growing up on the farm just didn't put you around the right people or right situation for a private country club. If you got a catfish dinner, or some grilled burgers at a local diner....that was country-club enough for the normal guy.
At some point, the Air Force wanted to get me hyped up on the NCO Club, and that meant a monthly fee of $3....which a decade later escalated to $5...a month. To be honest, I just could never see any real advantage to that deal, or the club.
Where this threat from the BLM might go? Maybe they'd show up with ten women as a protest unit.
If you asked Whitehouse about the membership....he'd probably tell you that nine out of ten of his top ten campaign contributors....are from the same club.
Just for thrills, this might be interesting to watch.
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