The Council on American-Islamic Relations called Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s remarks a textbook display of unvarnished racism and bigotry. (EPA Images pic)WASHINGTON: US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced widespread rebuke from civil rights groups, healthcare advocates and Democrats on Tuesday over his anti-Arab comments that the Council on American-Islamic Relations cast as "a textbook display of unvarnished racism and bigotry."
In his remarks on Monday at a campaign event in Michigan where Republican Mike Rogers is running for the US Senate against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, the US health secretary falsely claimed that Arabs had not won major international awards and "don't produce" science and literature.
