Education Sec. Paige Blasts NAACP Leaders

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - Rod Paige, the nation's first black education secretary, condemned NAACP leaders Thursday for saying some black groups are fronts for white conservatives.



"You do not own, and you are not the arbiters of, African-American authenticity," said Paige, who rose from segregated Mississippi to become President Bush (news - web sites)'s education chief.


Paige's comments, in a Wall Street Journal column titled "Naked Partisans," appeared on the same day Bush's challenger, Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites), was speaking at the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (news - web sites) in Philadelphia. Bush is at odds with the NAACP and has not spoken to the civil rights group since his 2000 campaign.


Paige took aim at two NAACP leaders, chairman Julian Bond and president Kweisi Mfume, for what he called "hateful and untruthful rhetoric about Republicans and President Bush." At the convention, NAACP officials have described some black organizations as mouthpieces of white conservatives and have said Bush's education law disproportionately hurts minorities.

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[Mari333]

1. Black Republican to me, is like a Jew for Hitler.

Makes not a lick of sense.

[liveoaktx]

2. This is the same guy who called the NEA a *terrorist organization*

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/02/23/paige.terrorist.nea/

Yuh-huh!

[Frances]

3. Isn't Paige

the guy who said that he had cut the drop out rate dramatically in his district in Texas? And then it turned out that his report was as crooked as so many of Bush's reports (the cost of Medicare, WMD, etc)

[liveoaktx]

7. Yup, the Texas Miracle and model for *No Child Left Behind*

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/06/60II/main591676.shtml

It was called the “Texas Miracle,” and you may remember it because President Bush wanted everyone to know about it during his presidential campaign.

It was about an approach to education that was showing amazing results, particularly in Houston, where dropout rates plunged and test scores soared.

Houston School Superintendent Rod Paige was given credit for the school success, by making principals and administrators accountable for how well their students did.

Once he was elected president, Mr. Bush named Paige as secretary of education. And Houston became the model for the president’s “No Child Left Behind” education reform act.

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Too bad the numbers were fudged.

[LiberalFighter]

17. The only miracle for Paige...

is that he thinks he has a brain

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Rod Paige will make comments about meaningless shit

However he remains conspicuously off record when it comes to questions about his own agency, and the failed record of "achievement" by the schools in Texas. He is cheap politico who is unfit for the job he was given by the chimp.

[tandot]

5. Oh, the guy who called teachers Terrorists...

or the teachers' union a terrorist organization?

"You do not own, and you are not the arbiters of, African-American authenticity," ... are YOU, Rod???

This whole administration is made up of a bunch of idiots, liars, and crooks.

[onehandle]

6. Whatever.

How's your resume coming, Rod? Maybe you won't need it. Maybe you'll get a choice position on a corporation's board like most of the other cabinet members next year.

Or maybe you'll never hear from them again.

[Elidor]

8. Apparently

Bush feels that he hasn't done enough to antagonize the black community yet. "Hey, Rod, go out there and stir up some shit for me."

[mstrsplinter326]

9. "Bush's education law disproportionately hurts minorities"

Notice how SEC. OF EDUCATION Rod Paige doesn't bother to refute that.

Maybe that' because it's true.

[yellowcanine]

10. Rod Paige is a front for white conservatives all by his little self - he

doesn't even need a group.

[pinerow]

11. Rod Paige, Colin Powell, Michael Powell, Condoleeza Rice...

Useful idiots.

[Sandpiper]

12. Rod's the one who let Massa Dubya

Pat him on top of his bald head for the whole world to see.

The guy's a complete tool.

Since Bushco's been taking heat for snubbing the NAACP, they had to trot out one of the house negroes to criticize them.

[liveoaktx]

13. Are you kidding? This guy?

[Sandpiper]

14. Yep

That's him.

[tabasco]

16. Trent Lott told Shrub this would give him good luck.

Selling out your soul for money must be hard to live with.

[gibbyman]

15. Who Let

the Tom Out yeahsir yeahsir who let the toms out:wtf:

[Cocoa]

18. Paige is rounding up the master's horses

an actual anecdote in Condi Rice's family lore, treasured and recounted without irony, is when her great-grandmother, a house slave, saved her master's horses from the advancing Union Army.