Nader: Black Caucus Attacked Me with 'Racial Epithet'

A meeting last month between Ralph Nader and the Congressional Black Caucus ended with the independent presidential candidate being derided with "an obscene racial epithet" before being told to "get your ass out" of the gathering.

In a letter to the CBC quoted by the Hill newspaper, Nader complained, "Exclamations at the meeting descended into vituperative (e.g., Congresswoman [Carolyn] Kilpatrick's, D-Mich., tawdry, anatomical comment yelled loud enough so the press could hear it outside) and ending with the obscene racist epithet repeated twice by Yale Law School alumnus Congressman Melvin Watt of North Carolina."

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