Tea Parties Mark a Milestone in Civil Rights
source: http://www.thepoliticus.com/content/tea-parties-mark-milestone-civil-rights
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Raven6
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Brilliant, just brilliant article, it's so good I just have to include a piece here :
She's writing here about how the Teabaggers were hurling insults at black and gay congressmen.
"What it pointed out wasn't that progress is stagnant, because those words exist and are still in use, what it pointed out was how far we've come: Those who used to be the victims of legalized racism, homophobia and sexism are now lawmakers. The words once used against the powerless by the authorities are now the desperate yaps of the outer perimeter.
The Tea Partiers' smears are like a war wound that doesn't cause disability just aches every so often to remember the fight. But most importantly, those middle-aged puffy white people screaming insults at members of Congress are a specter of the past. They're the civil disobedience equivalent of a telegram. Their vocabulary is clearly analog.
The battle cry for the Tea Parties has been that members of Congress need to listen to the American people. But to an observer of the people walking past jeers, members of Congr ess are now more than ever, the American people.
Tina Dupuy is an award-winning writer and the editor of FishbowlLA.com. Tina can be reached at tina@tinadupuy.com."
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Raven6
