North Carolina congressman: Protesters 'hate white people'

CNN reports:

A congressman who represents North Carolina apologized Thursday for saying there are riots in Charlotte because the protesters "hate white people."

"The grievance in their mind is that the animus, the anger -- they hate white people, because white people are successful and they're not," Rep. Robert Pittenger, a Republican, said on the BBC's "Newsnight." "I mean, yes, it is, it is a welfare state. We have spent trillions of dollars on welfare, where we put people in bondage so that they cannot be all that they're capable of being."

Just a reminder.