Alabama NAACP Criticizes Use of Trail Maids in Inaugural Parade

I have heard the reason is that Obama himself wants to model his inauguration parade after Lincoln’s as much as possible. It has nothing to do with slavery, only it’s a period dress.

In the American ‘cultural revolution’ there can be only one history and the white man is to be written out.

“Organizers stand behind the tradition, but opponents say tradition is the problem.”

Black tradition good, white tradition bad.

Should toga parties be outlawed because the Romans had slaves?

If these dresses should be banned because they remind us of slavery then blacks should be banned from being seen in public because they remind us of crime.

I hope they kick them out of the parade. No White should celebrate the dispossession of our people.

Whenever these black activists want attention, they find a way to inject the charge or racism or slavery. Many at the NAACP and other black organizations have built lucrative careers playing the race game.

“These are the costumes that remind someone of the plantation in Gone with the Wind…”

When Blacks are denied financial loans, racism is blamed.

When Blacks are given loans, and they subsequently default on the loans, racism is blamed.

When Blacks fail out of school, racism is blamed.

When “standards” are dismissed and Blacks are handed passing grades, civil rights leaders complain.

When Blacks are cited as leading the nation in rapes, homocides, drug abuse, armed robberies, assaults, all other forms of violent and non-violent crime, HIV/AIDS, all other STDs, illegitimate births, teenage pregnancy, and a host of other social problems and criminal mischief, the facts are cited as racism.

If those problems are ignored, the system is accused of neglecting Blacks, who are portrayed as “victims” who were “hardest hit” as a race.

Now, White America has taken leave of its senses and elected a Black man as president. As soon as Obama announces the attire for his parade, the entire thing is thrown back into the laps of Whites as… racism.

The best course of action is for America’s government to finish the Liberia Project started under Lincoln, and repatriate all Blacks back to Africa. It would be tax dollars well spent for *both* races.

I doubt that will ever happen, and I am certain America’s equity markets will reflect that more and more in the years ahead.

I collect Confederate postal history (stamps and envelopes from the Confederacy), slave badges, and other slave memorabilia. This material is fairly scarce and can be very expensive. The things I collect are neither good nor bad; they are merely part of our fascinating national history. I fully expect the day to come when my collections are declared illegal and seized. I also predict that any political will for the preservation of Civil War battlefields will wane, and the remaining battlefields will all eventually be paved over.

This Edward Vaughn of the Alabama NAACP s just showing his true color(s). And he doesn’t want anything or anyone else to steal the limelight or camera time from their Inaugural Ball(see link for a picture of Mr Vaughn proudly posing with a cardboard cut out of Obama, quite apt really).

http://www.naacpalabamastateconference.org/News/Inaugural%20Ball%2009/Inaugural_ball09.html

“We expect a message to us from President Obama. The gala will also feature Obama Memorabilia and world class entertainment.
Make checks payable to “NAACP” and mail to the above address.

Some much for this election result being about unification.

Stories like this, of this ‘suggested change’.
Remind of me of ‘the frog in the boling water’ analogy.

You know, throw the frog in the boiling water and it jumps right out, but put the frog in the cold water , and slowing raise the heat and the frog stays until death, not noticing the gradual change.

The gentleman in this story hopefully has not much influence but ‘the shift’ in thinking he represents is real.
And the fact that his thoughts/views are given any airtime at all is disturbing.

Makes me wonder what exactly these civil rights activists/liberals vision for the world is exactly. Instead of going from A to Z slowly through the whole alphabet, I wonder what Z looks like to them, or are they just making it up as they go along?.

Once again, anything cultural that is white is fair game and a target to be destroyed because it’s “racist”. Anything black, no matter how foul and negative (i.e. RAP/HIPHOP), is something to be proud of and off-limits to criticism by whites because it ….would….be….RACIST.

Can’t win, we’ve dealt ourselves a losing hand and have accepted it as a people. It’s like we’re our own worst enemy.

“NAACP head says pretty Southern girls in hoop gowns remind him of slavery.”

I’m not surprised, since most blacks believe that Angel Food cake is racist because it’s white and Devil’s food cake is black. And how anout the numerous paranoid myths circulating in the black communities that say the white man is trying to destroy them with aids, drugs, guns, and he even went so far as to blow up the levees in order to drown the blacks in New Orleans, plus probably 20 to 50 other types of paranoid nonsense.

So, if they see a harmless kind of wardrobe that reminds them of slavery, then it just further proof of their mental incompetence and propensity for paranoia.

It’s nothing at all unusual.

The more interesting question: what doesn’t remind Edward Vaughn of slavery?

Goodbye NAACP! Hello moonlight and magnolia blossoms…

These are beautiful dresses worn by southern belles. A country that forgets its traditions is not a country at all.

By the same line of reasoning (on the negative side) they should outlaw those baggy pants that black teenagers like to wear. You know, the ones that hang down below the crotch and the ball caps worn crooked and backwards. People who wear them remind me of gangstas and street hoodlums from the ‘hood. And they call this progress?

Oh give me a frickin break!!!!!!!!! I honestly think blacks sit around & find stuff to complain about!!!!! Will it never end with blacks always whining about something???
Blacks need to learn their History, the real History of the South. But as always, anything to be used as a crutch to get money for nothing.
Blacks would not believe truth if it smacked them in the head.
If it was not for the South & their leadership, this country would not have ever been developed to the extent that is today. If anyone needs a History lesson, I recommened the “The Polictically Incorrect guide to the South” by Clint Johnson. It is a real eye-opener. It is worth its weight in gold!

Great, now the NAACP will decide what clothes whites are allowed to wear.

Well, if there was EVER a time to step forward and defend your cultural heritage, NOW is the time. If the Blacks are offended, tell them that’s too bad, because you’ve had it with their cultural insensitivities.

The NAACP has to have something to gripe about! Since they got a man in the Whitehouse, there isn’t much left!

Blacks and White liberals are constantly laying a guilt trip on us by reminding us of how Blacks were victims of slavery. Since being reminded of slavery is the issue here, perhaps all Blacks and White liberals should stay home from the Inauguration Day Parade, including the President Elect.

“The head of the Alabama NAACP, however, wants Mobile’s Azalea Trail Maids to stay home on Inauguration Day, claiming the group reminds him of slavery.”

I’m sure the NAACP would prefer for ALL white people of BOTH sexes to stay home EVERY DAY.

Either that or just disappear altogether.

Since I know who the girl is, as well as who Edward is, my only regret is that Edward is not considerably more like she and substantially less like he.

If diversity were so good then why is it NOT BAD to relegate a part of Southern and American history to the file of non existence?

A couple of months ago I was talking to a native born Japanese Instructor at the University of Alabama. This highly educated and attractive young Japanese woman only vaguely knew that the United States and Japan fought a war sixty eight years ago; did not know what caused the war; and moreover, did not have a clue as to who Isoruku Yamamoto, Minoru Genda, or even Hideki Tojo were [of course if I were to ask United States High School students the same question - about America’s role in the conflict, or its leaders at the time, their answers would be equally ignorant- but American students are generally ignorant about everything excluding popular music, pornography, and text messaging].

Since World War II is an embarrassment to the Japanese, it is neither mentioned nor taught as a part of its history in school.

Similarly, if the NAACP were to have its way there would be no mention whatsoever of the mythological South or it’s attendant period of slavery.

And what’s this business about “moving forward” anyway? Since when is “moving forward” by definition somehow better than moving backward? If moving forward carries you to the edge of a minefield then perhaps you might want to re think this concept of always “moving forward” as always being the proper course of action!

No one at the time ever thought that this cute, white, fluffy little ball, would one day be sending this country I love straight to hell! In retrospect, I know now that I should have picked my own damn cotton!

MoMo

What a shame he is offended! What can we do to make more racist blacks offended?

Every time the NAACP sees a white person, it reminds them of slavery. So, in the end, it will be illegal to publicly show white people.

If these dresses are banned because they remind Mr. Hyper-sensitive of slavery then blacks should be banned because they remind me of slavery.

The race-industry is deathly afraid that they will have to find legitimate work, now that we have a Black president. No one believes any more the lie that “this is a racist country.”

“I fully expect the day to come when my collection is declared illegal and seized.”-Anon
Back in 1978 while walking out of a gun show my brother predicted, ” In 2005 guys that like and collect German Lugers will be declared mentally ill…”

Seriously now. Does it get any SILLIER THAN THIS? Every time a Black person looks in the mirror… it should remind him/her of slavery… that BLACK AFRICANS were held as slaves! If Afro-Americans are truly THAT sensitive to their now far-distant past… maybe they should consider relocation. TO AFRICA! Where they can show the world what miracles they can perform living among their own kind, rather than among White Americans.

That is about the dumbest thing that I have heard of yet out of this group. I think that everyone who said that blacks just want whites to disappear is right. We cannot celebrate our culture while they are able to shove what they call culture in our faces daily. I cringe when I see white young people acting more and more ghetto as the lowest common denominator is held up as culture.

“The head of the Alabama NAACP, however, wants Mobile’s Azalea Trail Maids to stay home on Inauguration Day, claiming the group reminds him of slavery.”

Having Blacks in Alabama reminds me of slavery so perhaps they should leave and go home to Africa. Then nobody would be reminded of slavery and the Blacks in Africa would have no reminders either.

Most blacks are SHOCKED to find out that their ancestors were sold into slavery by their OWN PEOPLE. Ben Richburg wrote a book about slavery that dealt with his own experience going back to Africa to find his “roots”. He was quickly recruited to join some tribal conflict to which he wisely declined. He then had the good sense to thank the Creator that his ancestors were brought here.
After the principal character in the movie “Amistad” (Cinque) gained his “freedom” he became one of the more “successful” slave traders of that era. There was an article written for one of the American history magazines (I forget which) that may be found on the internet titled “Selling poor Steven” which documented the black run slave trade in this country.
We need to expose Alex Haley’s “Roots” series for the fraud for which it is.

What men like this Mr. Vaughn, whom I am sure makes at least a 5 digit salary screaming racism, needs to realize, their Obama has nothing in common with them in regards to slavery. Just because Obama came out brown doesn’t mean he has more in common with them then the white slave owners.

Black groups dealing with trivial, miniscule issues instead of dealing with real issues affecting the black community: gangs, out-of-wedlock births, welfare, crime, etc.

Now you cannot have these beautiful White women upstaging everyone else can you?

This is what blacks are reduced to now that a black man has been elected president and cries of racism are beginning to ring hollow.

Is there no end to the nonsense that blacks (and even whiney whites) will utter to prove “racism”?

Incidentally, Obama is half-white, and I’d be thankful if posters at this site remembered that fact, although of course he himself does not and subsequently neither do the media.

dont worry about it, just turn off your tv and dont watch the inauguration. in fact dont watch tv anymore at all. they can continue to brainwash the public only if you continue to watch. control the information highway and you control the people. just say you dont know who the president is cause you didnt watch or care who won.

His comments reveal little about the Maids, but volumes
about himself. As an old Eastern saying puts it: When a pick-
pocket sees a saint, all he sees is pockets.

At the end of the Civil War General Grant stated that if he had believed for one second that the war had been fought to free the slaves he would have given his sword and his men in service to General Lee.

Someone should march in this parade holding high a giant banner evangelizing this historical statement…

I remember a certain performance in an old 1940s musical, I think it was “This is the Army”. There were scores of White men in black face and zuit suits with big hats singing and dancing. I’s love to see this at the coronation.

The best course of action is for America’s government to finish the Liberia Project started under Lincoln, and repatriate all Blacks back to Africa. It would be tax dollars well spent for *both* races.

If I recall correctly, I have read here in the AR pages that a large number of “refugees” from Liberia are settled in Pennsylvania, so that may not be a good idea anymore.