"The canonized legacy of Cesar Chavez is collapsing under revelations that recast a sainted activist as a deeply flawed—and possibly predatory—man the Left can no longer easily defend." VDH
The People Around Cesar Chavez Knew What He Did and Said Nothing
"Victor Davis Hanson reflects on arriving for college at UC Santa Cruz in the early 1970s and how he immediately faced the strong, uninformed opinions of student activists influenced by Cesar Chavez, the prominent American labor unionist and political activist. Hanson, whose family owned a raisin farm, had real agricultural experience, so when some of his college peers tried reprimanding him for eating table grapes in his dorm room, he educated them, explaining that they were home-picked raisins and proceeded to question them about their activist beliefs."
"He survived and thrived among leftist thought leaders and liberal politicians because he was an icon of the organized farm labor movement for decades. He even received his own holiday in California, Barack Obama created a national monument in his name, and the Navy plastered his name on a WWII Liberty ship.
"Now, all of that has come crashing down." . . . More -
A massive bombshell report from the New York Times has cast a pall on that legacy.
"Despite the rhetoric, most of the table-grape growers of Delano in the central San Joaquin Valley whom Chavez fought were not so easily caricatured as evil billionaire corporate predators. Most were successful family-run farms and packing houses, founded in the Depression by tough first-generation immigrants who came with nothing from Sicily, Croatia, and Serbia."
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