Response to Chávez scandal was knee-jerk reaction, points to wider plot
This whole César Chávez deal is curious to say the least. A few weeks before this year’s holiday comes a New York Times story that Chávez, a half century ago, sexually abused several women members of his United Farmworkers Union, including the top woman figure of the movement Dolores Huerta.
In a typical knee jerk reaction, city, county, state and federal officials moved in record time to remove the name of César Chávez from any schools, streets, and institutions that Chávez had been named after. The news story rendered him guilty, rendered him an evil heathen, and voided his name from the accomplishments of his union. Just like that, in the blink of an eye, an American icon has been erased from importance. A news story I read asserted the charges are “indefensible.”
Well, duh, César Chávez is not alive to defend himself. And defend himself from what? No criminal charges have ever been filed against him regarding the allegations. Also, what would motivate the 96-year-old Dolores Huerta to now bring to light these incidents? Why did it take over a half century? One local board member put in that in light of Chavez’s removal, a school should be renamed for Huerta. Is Dolores Huerta, this late in life, trying to steal César’s thunder? Get her name put in the forefront of the farmworkers union, and history, and get a holiday in her name? I think Huerta is being manipulated, by some nefarious power. That power is pretty much obvious. The same power that created ICE and that is going after anything immigrant, or alien related. Their goal is to remove any ethnic heroes off America’s hero board. The same power that said Chavez is just like all those rapists that we are allowing into our country. But that power, who is a complete dufus, forgets that Chavez was a born and bred American, and a much older American than himself.
For all our all knowing—and politically correct present leadership—how about removing the names of John F, Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, heck even FDR, and Thomas Jefferson, and many more, too many to mention, off all the schools, streets, buildings, airports and institutions that they are named after. For all those illustrious Americans abused women, committed adultery, committed immoral acts in office and out. Maybe the whole idea of naming things after such people should be put to pasture. 123rd street, and RRR school is just fine.
Charles Birimisa
Watsonville
