Ms. Craig, Just want to express my thanks for all the great coverage YOU and channel 5 have given these young ladies. It’s so hard to believe someone like vaughn would say the bad things he did about these ladies and get away with it. Has the commissioner heard anything back from vaughn other than his pitiful so called apology for saying the ladies were going to be an embarrasement to Alabama? You could tell he wasnt sincere in that apology and he still believes the lies he told. Hope they sue the heck out of vaughn and his so called naacp group for slander.. Have the ATM received enough money for the trip yet? I would send vaughn’s pitiful $500 back to him as I sure would’t want him to brag about sending monies so they could make it to the parade. Thanks again!!!

Thanks so much for posting my photo, on the Azalea Trail Maids!  Hopefully they will be able to raise the extra $4,000.00!  I have no doubt that they will! 
Lauri

i think mr vaughn should pull his pants down under his drawers dress up like a moon pie and rap down the street.then he could be in his on parade.

I myself have never seen the Trail Maids in person. But what I have seen in pictures and on T.V.  I think the girls are just beautiful. I would love to have a drees like that for me.  As for the so called president of the NAACP, Vaughn. I feel that he may just be a JEALOUS old man that didn’t get a special invitation to go to Washington and be seen by millions and millions of people. So, Mr. Vaughn get over it. And let the Maids do what they have worked so hard and so long to do and enjoy being themselves a true TRAIL MAID

Shark:

Mobile Azalea Trail
PO BOX 6746
Mobile, AL 36606

Can we get an address of where to send donations?

I fully support THE WIFE’S comments. I am fairly liberal however, those moves do nothing to improve the self image of the young men and women making out like they are auditioning for a job at Cookies and Cream. ICK!

Could someone please tell us why those Bump and Grind moves are even used in bands, parades and dance lines?

In the end, Vaughn’s comments seemed to help them rather than hurt them; the community is so riled up that I bet they’ll end up with a little spending money along with that 32k.

Yes, Mr. Vaughn, why don’t we show our progress with the girls marching in the street half naked doing the “bump and grind”, instead of these beautiful, talented and intelligent young women who are dressed in such decent clothes?

The election of president Obama has shown all of America that race should never again play any part in the division of our country. If we are to truly embrace the future, we can’t keep looking back to the negative aspects of the past. The shameful and hurtful remarks of the NAACP president proves that his “outdated” organization no longer has any relevance in our changing society.