# RFK Jr condemned over ‘wildly racist tirade’ at Michigan campaign event

https://mins.news/en/item/119152

- The Guardian, 2026-10-28 13:17 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/rfk-jr-michigan-arabs-comment

> US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr falsely claimed at a Grand Rapids rally for Senate candidate Mike Rogers that Arabs have never won major science or literature awards. The remarks drew condemnation from civil rights groups and Democratic lawmakers, amid attacks on Rogers’s rival, Abdul El-Sayed.

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