Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) said U. S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige's characterization of the National Education Association (NEA) as a "terrorist group" was "not just inappropriate, but is both irresponsible and a poor assessment of the NEA."
Mfume said: "To attack an organization that has a long history of working to improve the education of American school children and on behalf our nation's teachers is unconscionable. Moreover, for a cabinet official to use language that places an organization and its members within the same class as people the President has been adamant about destroying, shows a high level of malice. I hope the Secretary will reassess his use of inflammatory language to describe an organization that does not agree with all of the Bush Administration's education policies."
Paige was right when he said, "I should have chosen my words better."
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