Alabama NAACP criticizes use of Trail Maids in Inaugural Parade

[Chris_]

Alabama NAACP criticizes use of Trail Maids in Inaugural Parade

Montgomery, Ala. (WSFA) --  They're part of a long standing tradition that will soon become a part of Presidential history.
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.

"These are not just regular costumes.  These are the costumes that remind someone of the plantation in Gone with the Wind," Edward Vaughn said in a phone interview.

Vaughn went on to say the group would be the laughing stock of the Inauguration.  County leaders say nothing could be further from the truth.

"We want everyone to know that these young ladies do not need to be identified with slavery," said Mobile County Commissioner Stephen Nodine.

"I don't see what the dresses have to do with racism. I don't see it. It's just a regular dress to me.  Just a dress they wore back in the day," said Carolyn Tius of Montgomery.

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

"We needed something that could show Alabama's great progress rather than something that shows a shameful past," Vaughn said.

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Anything having to do with history, especially the history of the southern US, is by defintion racist.  [/NAACP mode]

[Rebel]

Reminds him of slavery? How old is this dumbass?

[asdf2231]

I guess they were REALLY pissed about the Tuskaloosa Field Hand Marching Band then...   

[DixieBelle]

Oh FFS. I guess they missed the part where the man getting sworn in is BLACK.

[Chris]

The Mobile Azalea Trail had its beginnings in 1929, when the Mobile Junior Chamber of Commerce undertook a project to encourage citizens of our community to plant azaleas along the Port City’s thoroughfares. The blossom-lined streets became known as the Mobile Azalea Trail. Each Spring,

from 1924 through 1948, local, state, national, and international dignitaries were invited to cut the ribbon to officially open the trail. Local debutantes originally served as hostesses for this event.

By 1949, the four local high schools were asked to appoint two senior girls to serve on what was to become the first Azalea Trail Court. Mary Edmunds of Murphy High School was selected to serve as Queen. In 1951 the idea of the Azalea Trail Festival was born and for the next seven years the reigning Miss America served as Queen of the Azalea Trail. Included among these Miss America’s were Mobile’s own Yolanda Betbeze in 1951, and Lee Meriwether, who later went on to success in the entertainment industry, in 1955. During this time, neighboring Jaycee chapters were invited to send representatives to serve on the Azalea Trail Court. The idea became so popular that soon each Jaycee chapter in Alabama, and some outside of the state, had a representative. As some of the towns these girls represented were 300 miles away, gathering the full court was a very difficult task.

There be racists here.  yarrr. 

[ReardenSteel]

http://www.pic2009.org/blog/entry/marching_on_the_azalea_trail_maids/

What do you know? By the link above, they consider it an honor to walk in the inaugural parade and have been working hard to get there. And I'd like to add a word for the people at the NAACP. You know what reminds me of our sometimes racist past even more than pretty girls in a pretty dress? The term "Colored People".

[docstew]

And I'd like to add a word for the people at the NAACP. You know what reminds me of our sometimes racist past even more than pretty girls in a pretty dress? The term "Colored People".

perfect irony, H5!

[Chris_]

http://www.pic2009.org/blog/entry/marching_on_the_azalea_trail_maids/

What do you know? By the link above, they consider it an honor to walk in the inaugural parade and have been working hard to get there. And I'd like to add a word for the people at the NAACP. You know what reminds me of our sometimes racist past even more than pretty girls in a pretty dress? The term "Colored People".

Look at that picture very carefully.  There's a black girl on the second row, right side.  OMG!!!!1111!!111!!!!!

[Ptarmigan]

Someone call the Whambulance!

[Rebel]

Look at that picture very carefully.  There's a black girl on the second row, right side.  OMG!!!!1111!!111!!!!!

...and in one of the peach dresses in the back left. 

Jesse Jackson: "Sellout aunt Jemima m'f'n hos". 

[debk]

Due to the "diversity" in the city schools in Mobile....and 2 girls from each school are in the Azalea Court...there is no way, all those girls are white.


This may not be the place to comment.....but how is it....that everyone has seemed to have "forgotten" that Obama is half WHITE?

[Eupher]

Due to the "diversity" in the city schools in Mobile....and 2 girls from each school are in the Azalea Court...there is no way, all those girls are white.


This may not be the place to comment.....but how is it....that everyone has seemed to have "forgotten" that Obama is half WHITE?

Because he wouldn't be elite if he were half white. It's much more politically volatile (and thereby noticeable) to be black.

[Chris_]

Because he wouldn't be elite if he were half white. It's much more politically volatile (and thereby noticeable) to be black.

...which is why he refuses to release his birth certificate...which likely says he's Caucasian.

[Eupher]

...which is why he refuses to release his birth certificate...which likely says he's Caucasian.

Actually, his Hawaiian birth certificate has been released by the Hawaiian authorities and was posted on the web in about June of last year.

I say "Hawaiian birth certificate" to distinguish from the Kenyan birth certificate which, as we all know, has not been located yet.

[thundley4]

Actually, his Hawaiian birth certificate has been released by the Hawaiian authorities and was posted on the web in about June of last year.

I say "Hawaiian birth certificate" to distinguish from the Kenyan birth certificate which, as we all know, has not been located yet.

I thought that was just an electronic version, not a picture of the actual physical document.

[Ptarmigan]

Due to the "diversity" in the city schools in Mobile....and 2 girls from each school are in the Azalea Court...there is no way, all those girls are white.


This may not be the place to comment.....but how is it....that everyone has seemed to have "forgotten" that Obama is half WHITE?

Obama is the first to openly admit he is Black, but he is not America's first Black President. He is the seventh. The previous ones are:
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Dwight G. Eisenhower

[Chris_]

I thought that was just an electronic version, not a picture of the actual physical document.

It's a scan of the original document, and only one side of it.  The seal and signature are no the hidden side.  It also lists no info on the baby...race, length, weight, etc.

[Eupher]

I thought that was just an electronic version, not a picture of the actual physical document.

It's a picture of the actual physical document. I think The Exalted One posted it on his website for all to revel in His Greatness.

[Rebel]

You mean the one that has "African" as his father's race? I was unaware that "African" was a race and his father doesn't look anything like Gary Player, also from Africa.

I don't buy it. Birth certificates can be forged just as easily as SSN's, not to mention the fact that he took Indonesian citizenship when he was younger.

[Eupher]

This is probably worthy of a separate thread altogether, but this is where I saw "photos" of The Exalted One's birth certificate:

Factcheck.org

The link shows 9 different photos, taken of different sides, different angles, of this "document."

Philip Berg's lawsuit which has gone through several presentations before SCOTUS, was "conferenced" this past Friday and apparently is going to be conferenced again tomorrow. I'm not sure what "conferenced" means.

http://www.obamacrimes.com/

But Congress, not surprisingly, isn't waiting on SCOTUS. They gleefully "certified" His Holiness as next prez on 1/9/09.

I guess they just couldn't wait for SCOTUS to get off its fat ass and make a ****ing decision.   

For the record, I despise Obama and truly think that where there's smoke, there's fire. I think Berg's lawsuit has substance. Even Justice Kennedy thought so last month, but they apparently are taking their sweet time about this.

Maybe DAT can enlighten us as to what "conferenced" means vis a vis the "actions" SCOTUS took last Friday and is supposed to take tomorrow.

[Rebel]

It's been brought to the surface that Factcheck.org is in the tank for liberals.

[Eupher]

I ain't here to sing praises about factcheck.org. It is what it is.

We'll see what happens when SCOTUS gets off its ass.

For one, I believe very, very little of what I "see" on the web. But the "document" is there from several angles, not just a scan.

Personally, I think Obama was born in Kenya, like the locals themselves have said. Obama's grandmother, the one who recently died, also is reported to have said that as well.

Like I said, where there's smoke, there's fire.