NC Congressman: Charlotte protesters ‘hate white people’
Rep. Robert Pettinger says the protesters hate white people because “white people are successful and they’re not.”
Protesters in #Charlotte "hate white people" – North Carolina Congressman Pittenger tells #newsnight https://t.co/q6ELYD01QV
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) September 22, 2016
Pittenger, a Republican, has represented North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, which includes outer portions of Charlotte and some of the city’s northern and eastern suburbs, since 2013. His comments come after two days of violent protests in Charlotte following the officer-involved death of Keith Lamont Scott.
When asked what protesters’ grievances were on a BBC TV news program, Pittenger said: “The grievance in their minds – the animus, the anger – they hate white people because white people are successful and they’re not.”
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“It is a welfare state,” he said. “We have spent trillions of dollars on welfare, and we’ve put people in bondage, so they can’t be all they’re capable of being.”
Pittenger apologized later Thursday in a statement after politicians and others took to social media to condemn the comments.
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