{"id":5225,"date":"2004-07-15T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-15T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5225"},"modified":"2021-06-13T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T16:13:37","slug":"nader-angers-congressional-black-caucus-with-demand-for-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/07\/15\/nader-angers-congressional-black-caucus-with-demand-for-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Nader angers Congressional Black Caucus with demand for apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehill.com\/news\/071404\/nader.aspx\">Nader angers CBC with demand for apology<\/a><br \/>\nThe Hill<br \/>\nBy Hans Nichols and Peter Savodnik<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tensions between Ralph Nader and the Congressional Black Caucus flared again yesterday, after a letter from the independent presidential candidate to the caucus chairman, Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), demanded an apology for an \u201cobscene racial epitaph\u201d at a tense meeting last month.<\/p>\n<p>Black lawmakers reacted to Nader\u2019s letter with a combination of anger and disdain, questioning his mental health and accusing him of acute and advanced egomania.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to sympathize with Nader here.  We&#8217;ve all been labeled insane for daring to disagree with so-called &#8220;black leaders&#8221; and their supporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nader angers CBC with demand for apology The Hill By Hans Nichols and Peter Savodnik Tensions between Ralph Nader and the Congressional Black Caucus flared again yesterday, after a letter from the independent presidential&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-5225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1mh","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7231,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions\/7231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}