This famous painting by neoimpressionist Claudia Adams, highlights the real origin of the Tea arty Movement.
For the answer .you need to go back in time before women got the vote.. back to sunny afternoons in the south and the north where well to do women met for tea.
“For years, it has been the liberal women who have organized and been staunch grass-roots and policy advocates,” Rebecca Wales, a spokeswoman for Smart Girl Politics, a new group formed to train and mobilize women in the tea party movement. “No longer is it only the liberals. Conservative women have found their voices and are using them, actively and loudly.”
The male egos parading in three corner hats made it seem like the Tea Party name came from angry white men like the bunch of men who dressed up and played Indians in Boston Harbor or the founders of the testosterone filled confederates in fancy uniforms, who saw 1865 as being in the spirit of the original “Tea Party.”
The real story has a lot more to do with Adam’s wonderfull picture. The tea party movement burst onto the scene out of the gentile tea parties of southern ladies.
The tea party’s most influential leaders are these little women, women who still make up the majority of the movement. Tea party organizers and activists say they’ve seen the influence of women firsthand — personified by the politician most associated with the movement, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Palin, is more of a show mare than a workhorse according to Velanie Cross from the Tea Party organizers group “Top Pot.” Cross goes on to say that the tea party has provided a more direct way for conservative women to have influence than the Republican Party, where she says “women have always struggled for inclusion.”
Melanie Gustafson, a University of Vermont associate professor of the history of women in politics at , said the tea party has provided a more direct way for conservative women to have influence than the Republican Party, where she says “women have always struggled for inclusion.” “There’s something happening here (in the tea party movement) in the same way which is bypassing the parties and I think women are comfortable with that type of organizing, because it’s community organizing” that revolves around family rituals.”
Darla Dawald, national director for the tea party social network, said, “You know the old saying that if mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy?” “Well, when legislation messes with mama’s kids and it affects her family, then mama comes out fighting — and I don’t mean in a violent way, of course.”
You are FOS
First, whoever Roberta Flack maybe, I assume you are not the real lady (above). Impersonation is a rather bad thing to do! I suspect, instread you are related to the other troll,”Robert Raymond.” Robert and Roberta may be the same person since both are hacking into THE Ave comment system.
Seems like a lot of effort since our Comments are only censored in the case of obscenities or other extreme behavior. Almost all of that (a couple of hundred a day) or caught by the WordPress filter system. Why REobert and Roberta have need to hack in is a mystery to me.
Whatever, the use of an epithet suggests this p0ost has hit home?
Don’t you think there is something distasteful about the women of the Tea Party? Unless the troll “Roerta Flack” is a Tea Partier, why would he/she take offence?
This post actually arose after I began to wonder about whether allusions to the Tea Party were novel to our times. I did some searching with Bing and found that the secessionists in South Carolina proudly claimed to be living the heritage of the Sons of Liberty in Boston. As far as I can see, the Tea Party was founded by those beplumed, self made aristocrats of the plantations couture.
This piqued my interest, I wondered how Southern women had actually thought about the disaster their men were creating?
So I tried searching Bing for Southern ladies and Tea Party women.
I got no political references. Instead Bing showed me delicate women, fragile porcelain, little hands with little fingers extended while brown hands served tea. That weird culture continued at least through the Jim Crow days.
A few years ago, I visited a suburban development built on a very large plantation. The development was intentionally far enough away from the urban areas to effectively .. and eerily … create a sort of racial separation all to familiar to this patch of dirt. I was there long enough to meet the neighbors, nice enough people. I did not attend a tea party ..,. either the elegant sort or a political sort. Maybe the ladies doi not have tea parties because most of them I met worked in nearby industrial plants. Those jobs and the local malls made it a real adventure for folks living in the development to visit the nearby cities. So folks lived in their plantation homes, sadly in the precious absence of the Black culture that is such a strong part of the South’s great cities.
So I decided to do a mash up … let the nice ladies of the confederacy meet their modern equivalents. If this deserves your epithet, then I can only guess that you are part of the problem my post was intended to challenge.