via Drudge
Edward Vaughn, the head of NAACP in Alabama, is protesting the use of Trail Maids at the inaugural parade.
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.
If Vaughn wants to protest the Trail Maids, then he should do so on the only reasonable grounds available: they look really silly. However, if we are going to start banning things on the grounds that they remind people of slavery, then we are going to have to start banning Edward Vaughn and the NAACP because when they talk like this they are even more painful and even more direct reminders of slavery.
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