Yep, today marks the birthday of Cesar Chavez, organizer/founder/voice of the United Farm Workers Union in California's central valley. He was an American you know, a veteran (a squid) of World War Two. He was a classic organizer of the Chicago School. When ranchers brought in scabs to cross the UFW picket lines, he called Immigration and they were deported back to Mexico. What? Yes, Cesar Chavez was an American union organizer, organizing for American Union workers. He and Dolores Huerta fought the Braceros Program and as a result of their efforts Congress ended it in 1964. Political expediency. The thing is this, those first grape workers in Delano, California that struck for the UFW were Filipino-Americans. . .Interesting hmmm?
Try and get that straight. Doesn't fit the current societal narrative does it? John Adams said of the massacre trial "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
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