They sure don't speak for me

Julian Bond and Kwesi Mfume need to get over themselves. Rod Paige is telling it like it is.

"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."

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