NC Congressman: Charlotte protesters ‘hate white people’

Posted by | September 23, 2016 09:06 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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Rep. Robert Pettinger says the protesters hate white people because “white people are successful and they’re not.”

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.”

“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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11 responses to NC Congressman: Charlotte protesters ‘hate white people’

  1. crc3 September 23rd, 2016 at 09:42

    People like Pittenger have no business being in public office. They need to be wearing a white sheet with a hood. What a pig…

    • Suzanne McFly September 23rd, 2016 at 16:23

      Amazing how someone can be so ignorant and be elected to represent thousands of people. We need to give people who run for office an IQ test, then develop some type of test to gauge common sense and give them that test to. If you are dumber than a 5th grader you’re outta here, if you are too stupid to walk and chew gum, you’re outta here.

  2. Larry Schmitt September 23rd, 2016 at 09:53

    I think maybe they hate white people who hide behind badges and shoot at them.

  3. Buford2k11 September 23rd, 2016 at 10:27

    ya know, as an old white guy, there are certain other white folks I really do not like…that Basket is getting overfilled….time to take out the trash…

  4. whatthe46 September 23rd, 2016 at 11:43

    i hate “apologizes” when they aren’t actual apologizes.

  5. Bunya September 23rd, 2016 at 13:05

    Tsk. Tsk. Those poor, maligned and victimized white people. It breaks my heart how cruelly we treat them.

  6. Warman1138 September 23rd, 2016 at 13:15

    welfare is bondage for those that hate successful white people? Every day brings another republican genius to the forefront of the news………along with another Trump headline.

  7. oldfart September 23rd, 2016 at 13:54

    Is North Carolina in competition with Mississippi now…?

  8. Suzanne McFly September 23rd, 2016 at 16:20

    Does this dip$hit know more white people are on welfare then black people? What is his excuse for them?

  9. amersham1046 September 23rd, 2016 at 18:47

    “Some are born stupid
    some achieve stupidity
    and some have stupidity thrust upon them.”

  10. Daddyrich1 September 23rd, 2016 at 19:37

    You mean because im black u get free stuff from the government?and ive been working for 45 years, thank you,you racist piece of s–t

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