Obama’s Inaugural Parade
[Guest post by DRJ]
Mobile, Alabama’s Azalea Trail Maids marched in the 2004 Inaugural and have been invited to participate in Barack Obama’s Inaugural Parade:
You don’t see that everyday, at least not where I live.
The Trail Maids’ dresses have been described as reminiscent of Gone With the Wind or Disney Princesses, but they remind Alabama State NAACP President Edward Vaughn of slavery … and he is not pleased the Azalea Trail Maids are the only Alabama participants selected by Obama’s Presidential Inaugural Committee.
— DRJ
Well, gee whiz, we sure wouldn’t want to remind him of slavery. At least, not any more than the NAACP constantly reminds us…
mojo (975965) — 1/13/2009 @ 8:50 pmYou have got to be kidding me! Slavery?! His brain is not firing on all neurons, that is a fact.
And those dresses? A-may-ZING!!!
John Hitchcock (fb941d) — 1/13/2009 @ 8:51 pmAnd the girl in the peach dress in the front row might not be the descendant of a slave owner and the girl in the second row in the yellow dress has a 95% or higher chance of not being the descendant of a slave owner. Looks like EEOC can’t have any complaints here (especially since the lack of testosterone is not an EEOC claim).
John Hitchcock (fb941d) — 1/13/2009 @ 8:55 pmApparently the election of the nation’s first black president has opened the floodgates on playing the race card at the drop of a hat.
Icy Texan (b7d162) — 1/13/2009 @ 8:56 pmYou know what else reminds me of slavery? White people. STOP OPPRESSING ME WITH YOUR LACK OF MELANIN!!!
Also, peach cobbler. It sure is tasty, though.
Pablo (99243e) — 1/13/2009 @ 8:58 pmYa know, it’s funny now that I think of it. My predecessors were all unwanted in this here land of the free. They were either oppressed or killed or arrived late enough (from a country who made slavery illegal before the US) to just be hated and treated terribly. But from perma-tan status alone, I’m one of the oppressors now, since I’m not only not perma-tanned but not summer-tanned either.
John Hitchcock (fb941d) — 1/13/2009 @ 9:09 pmSomeone needs to get a life…
sam (a66070) — 1/13/2009 @ 9:38 pmPerhaps president Edward Vaughn should take this matter up with President-Elect Barack Obama – old guard racial politics v. the new post-racial Hope and Change…manifesting itself in a nauseating palette of parading pastels harmoniously moving in unison down the streets like a small sugary army of Mashmallow Peeps.
No wonder we are the envy of the world!
Dana (137151) — 1/13/2009 @ 9:40 pmI have to assume that either
A) Very nearly EVERYTHING reminds the man of Slavery
or
B) What he really means is “Oh, God! those dresses are the tackiest thing i’ve ever seen outside of a San Francisco Gay Pride Parade. Can’t we come up with something more dignified than THAT?!?”, but he’s hoping that the Slavery tag will get him more traction.
If it’s “B”, I sympathize.
C. S. P. Schofield (2f879a) — 1/13/2009 @ 9:59 pmOne presumes that if some of the dress-wearers are black & Hispanic transvestites that everything will be okay?
Icy Texan (b7d162) — 1/13/2009 @ 10:10 pmIcy, while the number of transvestites I know is fairly limited, I have to say that I rather suspect that no transvestite would be caught dead is such an damned ugly dress.
Scott Jacobs (90ff96) — 1/13/2009 @ 10:22 pmGo with the trail dancers.
Joe (17aeff) — 1/13/2009 @ 10:45 pmIt could be a whole lot worse.
Joe (17aeff) — 1/13/2009 @ 10:49 pmRACISTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JD (0e032b) — 1/13/2009 @ 10:52 pmProtein Wisdom finds the true magic!
Joe (17aeff) — 1/13/2009 @ 10:56 pmSo the NAACP is upset about a bunch of women in colorful dresses marching down the street.
But if you dress up like a Klansman and chase a black man (that looks like Obama) it is no problem:
Halloween display aims for ‘shock value’
Democratic backer sends message by showing McCain, in KKK robe, chasing Obama
By Jeff Murray
jdmurray@gannett.com
http://www.stargazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081014/NEWS01/810140328&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL
So according to liberals,the racist and murdering
rampage that the KKK undertook decades ago is now
comedy and satire.
How progressive!!!
How can anybody take these idiot liberals seriously?
Baxter Greene (8035ae) — 1/13/2009 @ 11:46 pmOnly if you link it to republicans, who are all racists anyways, even though it was Democrats who started the Klan…
Scott Jacobs (90ff96) — 1/14/2009 @ 12:03 amMr. Vaughn? Sir? Sit down and shut up.
Please. Enough already.
the friendly grizzly (77fb0e) — 1/14/2009 @ 12:20 amThe NCAAP hates diversity and is intolerant of other cultures.
Perfect Sense (9d1b08) — 1/14/2009 @ 1:37 amBulletin to the NAACP:
Paul Albers (06d9a0) — 1/14/2009 @ 2:53 am“Frankly, my dear. I don’t give a damn!
More hypocrisy from the NAACP. I think a good therapist would do wonders for this race baiter.
eaglewingz08 (ad2cae) — 1/14/2009 @ 4:03 amI read that there are going to be a group of drummers there, most of whom are Black. That reminds me of migraines and head hunters – origins of drumming from Africa – so we should ban them.
I read that there’s going to be food there from Hawaii. That reminds me of the bloody ethnic wars that raged for generations between the Samoans and the Hawaiians. So we should ban Hawaiian food.
I read that Obama’s going to be driven in a Lincoln. That’s a car. Cars have killed many people so I think we should ban all cars.
This list is a work in progress. I think I can come up with a lot of dreadful imagery to associate with just about everything planned for this event in D.C.
-S- (140eb5) — 1/14/2009 @ 4:22 am“I don’t know nothin’ ’bout birthin’ babies.”
Horatio (55069c) — 1/14/2009 @ 5:10 am“Oh, God! those dresses are the tackiest thing I’ve ever seen outside of a San Francisco Gay Pride Parade.”
They do look a lot better when worn by women.
tyree (fab058) — 1/14/2009 @ 6:18 amFWIW, I live near Mobile and have seen these girls at events, and they do have black girls.
radar (722e7d) — 1/14/2009 @ 7:21 amI once lived across the street from a place that held wedding receptions. The most memorable one had the bride and bridesmaids in similiar dresses.
MamaAJ (788539) — 1/14/2009 @ 7:35 amThe bride was outside talking to a guest. Standing on a narrow path, she helpfully moved her dress to the side to let someone pass. Unfortunately, that meant that everyone could see everything under her dress up to her waist. She was not wearing a slip under the dress/petticoat, but had on lovely pantyhose and a garter. She didn’t realize the view she was providing, so it was a few minutes before someone in the wedding party noticed and told her.
Most importantly, what would Butterfly McQueen think of all this?
Dmac (eb0dd0) — 1/14/2009 @ 8:00 amI imagine you don’t see too many of these in Kawl-eee-fahn-eee-yah…You see their inverse, the micro-mini skirt!
Bob (99fc1b) — 1/14/2009 @ 8:00 amWe’re ladies!!
Scott Jacobs (a1c284) — 1/14/2009 @ 8:11 am#
How right you are sir!!
Baxter Greene (8035ae) — 1/14/2009 @ 8:14 amThe NAA(L)CP just made itself permanently irrelevant. Can we get on to real issues?
PCD (7fe637) — 1/14/2009 @ 8:15 amAnyone notice the Drudge link as a comparison to Bush’s 2nd inauguration and Obama’s Coronation? Notice how many of the Left shrieked in indignation then are silent now? Pure partisanship, and that is by the MSM!!!
PCD (7fe637) — 1/14/2009 @ 8:48 amI think they represent the lollypop guild.
biscuiteater (9cbc67) — 1/14/2009 @ 11:13 amIt would be more acceptible if it were all men wearing those dresses…
ATLHighwayman (61ed53) — 1/14/2009 @ 11:17 amPersonally, I think they could have done better. Had they only asked me.
nk (9097f8) — 1/14/2009 @ 11:34 amComment by nk — 1/14/2009 @ 11:34 am
In DC? In January? Outdoors?
AD (1d0fdb) — 1/14/2009 @ 12:33 pmPaco Enterprises has the inside story on preparations for the inauguration.
Evil Pundit (843b74) — 1/14/2009 @ 2:27 pmyellow dress has a 95% or higher chance of not being the descendant of a slave owner.
Actually, she has a pretty good chance of being the descendant of a slave owner, think Strom Thurmond.
Horehound (a846c8) — 1/14/2009 @ 3:14 pmYou know what? Barack reminds me of slavery!! What am I going to do?
Patricia (89cb84) — 1/14/2009 @ 3:28 pmPerhaps not in the South, but I do remember accounts of there being slave-owners who were not White in the 18th-Century.
AD (1d0fdb) — 1/14/2009 @ 3:28 pmGet ready for it people: historic homes will be deemed racist and scheduled for termination.
Paul Atreides (0f949e) — 1/15/2009 @ 6:36 amWhat this is proving if a Liberal wants to spend 4 times what a Conservative spends for the same thing, the Conservative is a wastrel and the Liberal a piker.
PCD (7fe637) — 1/15/2009 @ 6:41 am“The Trail Maids’ … remind Alabama State NAACP President Edward Vaughn of slavery”
Yeah, something tells me that pretty much everything probably reminds him of slavery.
When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Todd, the Sofa King (7dfb32) — 1/15/2009 @ 6:57 amAmerica has not went ot he dogs! We just have a family of coons living in the White House?
pete (3829a0) — 1/21/2009 @ 9:49 amLet me guess, pete. Lifetime Republican? Clowns like this should be banned, immediately.
JD (b79a6a) — 1/21/2009 @ 9:54 amJD, you know how folks come up with a term to describe a group of animals? Like a pride of lions.
A thief of crows.
A crash of rhinos.
A lucas of nerds.
What about trolls? Because we are having a troll attack, today.
Eric Blair (3e2520) — 1/21/2009 @ 9:56 amYou all are racists for not pointing out why the letters on this thread is black while the background is white. Let us begin to speak truth to power. Therefore I denounce y’all mother-blanker racists!
Emperor7 (1b037c) — 1/21/2009 @ 10:02 amI like a lucas of nerds.
How about a twatwaffle of trolls ….
JD (b79a6a) — 1/21/2009 @ 10:02 amLovie – You ain’t got the chops to be doing the denouncing around here. Leave that to the experts.
JD (b79a6a) — 1/21/2009 @ 10:06 amDon’t worry JD. No one is trying to take your place.
Emperor7 (1b037c) — 1/21/2009 @ 10:09 amIf you are going to denounce someone, do it right.
JD (b79a6a) — 1/21/2009 @ 10:14 amComment by JD — 1/21/2009 @ 10:14 am
Emperor7 (0c8c2c) — 1/21/2009 @ 11:42 amAlright. Here goes nothing……..
I D-E-N-O-U-N-C-E Y-O-U R-A-C-I-S-T motherblanker!
Better?
Nope. Not a very good effort at all. You are phoning it in.
JD (b79a6a) — 1/21/2009 @ 11:44 amComment by JD — 1/21/2009 @ 11:44 am
“Rookies”
AD (ef385e) — 1/21/2009 @ 11:45 amField of Dreams
Comment by JD — 1/21/2009 @ 11:44 am
Emperor7 (0c8c2c) — 1/21/2009 @ 12:12 pmAaaaarrgh…..I give up! I could never match up with the Racist Master of this blog. Do you have a class I can attend or a book I can read on effective denunciation of racism, oh perfect master? 🙂
Re racism.
What can poor Jesse Jackson do now? Not that the old extortionist will give up his victim card without a fight.
Vermont Neighbor (ab0837) — 1/21/2009 @ 12:18 pmI am so far from perfect that it is not even funny.
JD (b79a6a) — 1/21/2009 @ 12:19 pmIf you were perfect, you would never have had back problems, right?
AD (ef385e) — 1/21/2009 @ 12:20 pmComment by JD — 1/21/2009 @ 12:19 pm
Emperor7 (1b037c) — 1/21/2009 @ 1:56 pmNo I think you are a legend. What’s with the modesty?