[Interesting at how black Americans are clashing with American conservatives. I said in my book, Government by Deception, that even in the USA the people on the left WANT more racial clashes between blacks and whites because it moves the left’s agenda forward. Jan]

WASHINGTON, July 15 (UPI) — The NAACP’s spat with the Bush White House kicked up a notch Thursday as U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige publicly rebuked the civil rights group.

Paige, one of many blacks holding senior positions in the Bush administration, condemned recent accusations by NAACP leaders that black conservatives were merely fronts for white interests.

“You do not own, and you are not the arbiters of, African-American authenticity,” Paige wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed the same day Sen. John F. Kerry, the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, addressed the group’s annual meeting in Philadelphia.

Paige, who grew up under segregation in Mississippi, singled out NAACP Chairman Julian Bond and President Kwesi Mfume for their use of what Paige called, “hateful and untruthful rhetoric about Republicans and President Bush.”

In a recent interview with NNPA, Mfume, a former Democratic congressman from Maryland, accused Bush of treating blacks like “prostitutes” because he asks black Americans for their votes but refuses to speak at the NAACP’s annual conference.

The group has long been at odds with Bush, who has not spoken before its annual assembly since becoming president in January 2001.

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