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Cesar Chavez’s birthday is a holiday in six states, there are over a dozen streets that carry his name in California alone, and far more schools across the country are named after a child rapist.
And now some of those streets may be renamed and Chavez statues may be coming down.
Marches are being canceled, events are being sidelined and the organizations associated with Chavez are facing a reckoning over the stories of his abuses: especially against children.
Cesar Chavez is certainly not the first civil rights leader to also double as a rapist. We’ve known for seven years now that Martin Luther King not only had numerous ‘affairs’, willing or unwilling, but was caught on tape cheering on a rape by one of his friends. More information will be coming out next year when the FBI’s whole library of MLK material will be finally released.
Harvey Milk had lured underage boys to run away, come live with him and sexually service him. Malcolm X had come out of the Nation of Islam and denounced Elijah Muhammad’s harem of teenage secretaries whom he opportunistically raped and impregnated. That eventually led to his murder. The recently deceased Jesse Jackson had been accused of sexual harassment.
But the allegations against Chavez, often held up as MLK’s Latino counterpart, are far worse.
An extended New York Times article describes Chavez sexually abusing girls as young as twelve years old and raping members of the movement, including Dolores Huerta: a co-founder of the United Farm Workers and a key figure in California liberal politics.
The labor leader seemed to have a preference for grooming twelve-year-old girls into adoring him, getting them alone with him, and then violating their boundaries before raping them.
One girl, whom Chavez started grooming when she was only twelve, remembers “when Mr. Chavez drove up with one of his bodyguards” took her to a motel and raped her. “She was a virgin, and remembers that it hurt, and she was bleeding. But she also remembers the gun Mr. Chavez had placed on the night stand next to the bed.” That’s the man schools are named after.
How many in the movement knew what was going on? How many failed to notice, as the New York Times wrote that he, “was a frequent presence in the lives of the daughters of his loyal organizers and volunteers. They recalled his attending their family functions, taking them on tour with him, asking them to work in his office after school and exchanging letters, gifts and photographs”. How many knew and said nothing for the sake of the movement?
A priest who had worked with Chavez’s United Farm Workers told the San Antonio Express that two women had previously come forward. “Those young women spoke out. And it never went anywhere.” Who in the media did they speak to? And who in the media covered it up?
How many on the Left had known about the allegations more recently yet chose to say nothing?
Matt Garcia, the author of the most controversial Chavez biography, “From the Jaws of Victory” told the newspaper that he had seen allegations on a closed chat and appeared to have done nothing with them. “I have been asked to remain quiet, and I will abide by those wishes,”
How many others have been staying silent rather than report on Chavez’s crimes?
While the child rape allegations are new, they certainly don’t come as a complete surprise.
Democrats in California and across the Southwest had built a cult of personality around Chavez, but stories had been trickling out about his transformation of what had been a labor movement into his own cult in which the radical and his family who ran the organization became “prophets” in charge of a commune that provided the aging activist with unquestioning obedience.
Especially from the women.
Chavez had adopted the latter-day practices of India’s Gandhi who had slept naked with young girls to demonstrate his mastery of spirituality. Chavez had explained how Gandhi had been “starving his body… then controlling the sex urge.” At this, Chavez appeared to have been less successful. The United Farm Workers fell apart, but Chavez enjoyed the worship of a small cult.
One of the young girls, whom Chavez began grooming when she was only thirteen, described how he used “alternative healing therapies” to find “pressure points” on her body. “When I was on the yoga mat is when he would try to have sex,” she recalled.
Chavez’s child rapes are not just the abuses of one man, but they tell the larger story (one often told by David Horowitz) of how the leftist movements of the era degenerated into grotesque abuses. It’s no coincidence that so many major civil rights leaders had committed so many of the same crimes or that so many of them were in the Kennedy nexus of sexual abuses.
The pattern of cults of personality devolving into actual cults, radical protests being used as cover for sexual assaults, and then, if the movement survived, turning into actual terrorism is a pattern in the American ‘counterculture’ but also in past and present leftist movements worldwide. Chavez’s abuse of little girls is especially egregious, but not so very different.
The ‘Camelot’ myth contended that virtuous liberal movements had been brought down by ‘right-wing violence’ and ‘secret government sabotage’ when, as David Horowitz did much to show, they were actually destroyed by their own radicalism, unchecked corruption and abuses.
Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover and the CIA weren’t the reasons that Cesar Chavez raped little girls, MLK couldn’t keep his pants on, and the counterculture turned into a murderous cult that actively thrived on murder and rape, but maintaining that myth is why we only finally learn about their crimes long after most of those involved are dead and the myth’s usefulness is over.
Will the expose of Chavez’s child rapes finally end his cult of personality? There are signs that unlike MLK, who still remains firmly in the pantheon of progressive saints, Chavez may be done.
But Cesar Estrada Chavez had outlived his usefulness to the Left even while in life. The Left had wanted him to build a modern professional labor organization filled with lawyers and organizers, Chavez chose to run a cult of personality built along the familiar model of Mexican feudalism in which he and his family ran everything and nothing was done professionally.
The lawyers and organizers moved on and built a professional labor movement while Chavez tried to get young girls hooked by pretending to be latter day Gandhi through saintly theatrics that liberal audiences grew bored of as the counterculture offered more shocking novelties.
The Left has long since adopted open borders as its governing creed while Cesar Chavez opposed illegal alien workers as competition that allowed fruit companies to underpay workers.
The New York Times has simply sped up the process of jettisoning Chavez and replacing him with a more useful role model. The child rapes are not the issue, because if they had been the issue, the women who had come forward over the years would have been listened to all along.
Chavez’s real crime to the media isn’t that he raped children, but that he opposed illegal aliens.
Photo credit: Movimiento via Wikimedia Commons
Who wants to bet that Austin, Texas will change the name of Cesar Chavez Street back to First Street? It would be a start.
They’ll probably name it after another leftist
Look at those stinky hippies!
And the two Vatos on the left look like they’re in a gay Showtime Special in between doing margarita spritzers off each other’s asses. Why do the scummy hippies from the 70s always look so ethnic? Actually, they look homicidal which reminds me of why I’m glad I was just a little kid back in the 70s. I bet they tasted the tacos they ate two hours later with those 70s porn mustaches.
They don’t look very healthy.
You know, I knew Chavez was a bad guy but I didn’t know he was a rapist, much less a kiddie rapist. I Remember those old films of his goons beating the shit out of wetbacks in fields with axe handles. That was some fucked up shit. Yeah, I know, Mexicans should stay in Mexico but there’s no excuse for that shit. It’s like beating the fuck out of your next door neighbor or the chick who just made you a taco at a roach coach.
A lot of people who haven’t experienced it first hand don’t know how serious the problem is.
Pedo stuff? Oh buddy, I pray you have no first hand experience with that shit.
There are a lot of illegal aliens here in San Jose. Generally speaking, they don’t cause a lot of problems.
The usual suspects are a TINY minority here but anytime you have a problem with some homeless skeve it’s one of them. There isn’t even a dark neighborhood here. It’s one of the things I like about San Jose, although all my girlfriends are black.
Check again, Jeff. SJ is high crime and rising. Property crimes, drug dealing and assaults and other violence; it’s overwhelmingly Mexican and Central American.
I don’t keep track of those statistics and I’m skeptical.
But two facts stand out: crime here is overwhelmingly committed by non whites and non Asians, and blacks are a tiny minority. There isn’t a single black neighborhood in the whole city. Without a large black population, of course it’s going to be the Beaners who pick up the slack.
Black homeowners in California with high value property mostly sold out and moved to areas where they could get property cheaper and have some money left over.
You sound like a programmed leftist. The four letter words just make for incoherence.
It’s like dousing excrement on your comments.
Eat shit. That’s 7 letters but you get the message.
Well a little known fact that produce owners hired Mexican gang members from Los Angeles of the infamous La Eme aka Mexican Mafia to attack the farm laborers when they went on strike. This is one of the reasons why the other Mexican gang, Nuestra Familia was created by mostly Northern Californian Mexicans whose families worked in the farms. Also the Nuestra Familia also adopted the UFW eagle as their gang symbol. The Northern Californian Mexicans are identified as Norteños (Northerners in Spanish) and the Mexican Mafia as Sureños (Southerners in Spanish). It is hardly mentioned that fellow Hispanics were attacking each other because one side was paid to be union busters.
Yes, I’ve known Norteños and Sureños and they have a little fued going on. They don’t seem to treat it very seriously anymore, though.
If you mean the current batch ofnlow lifes not caring.about Cesar Chavez”s legacy, you are righ5. However there is still a deadly heated rivalry between the two gangs that is happening to this day.
This is another leftist hero that is revealed to be human waste.
The left has quietly retired Margaret Sanger – their abortion godess . . . and eugenics queen.
Eugenics was the outgrowth of Darwinism & byproduct of Nazi Germany.
Now that too many facts about Sanger have become public, fools like Hillary have silently stopped screaming her praises (and hope no Nick Shirley types dredge the subject up.)
“Chavez’s real crime to the media isn’t that he raped children, but that he opposed illegal aliens.”
Nailed it. Now begins the task of erasure from the Dem Marxist history book. They openly follow the doctrines and tactics of communism now.
Kind of like inconvenient people being airbrushed out of old photos of Lenin and Stalin. Phfft! Gone!
“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out”
David Horowitz
The left was likely hoping that their internal polling wouldn’t show them losing the argument over illegal immigration.
But
They were holding this metoo Chavez story in reserve, to roll out — just in case they needed it.
So here come the *sour grapes (pun intentional) …
And who were the ‘investigative’ reporters of the day? Did 60 Minutes ever do a story on him?
I bet they did loving profiles of him.
Interesting. I was working EMS as a 1st responder in CO, back in the ’70s and Chavez put out the word to his people they should “not mess with the chicks in the orange jackets” because we were there to help them, and they never did, in the yrs I was doing that. That hardly sounds like the kind, to me, a rape survivor from yrs earlier, of man who was raping or molesting women or girls somewhere else. Is it possible this is just typical leftist discrediting, because he wasn’t going long with their agenda of bringing in masses of illegals to take Americans’ jobs for cheaper? THAT was 1 of his primary gripes at the time, and rightly so, because it was happening then too, and ag workers, at least in the area we covered, were very hard hit by the invaders’ presence.
I am surprised how quickly all the blue cities/states are quick to distance themselves from CesarChavez and his legacy. How great that these same blue woke cities and states would be this quick to deal with the homeless problem, re-open the refineries that have closed, or businesses that are leaving because of their taxes and over-regulation.
The way the leftists are simply “erasing” Cesar Chavez and his legacy reminds me what happens when an official embarrasses or disgraces the communist party of a country and they are suddenly removed from state photos to the history books as if this person never existed at all. A good example is Joseph Stalin where photos of him and Leon Trotsky were altered where it was just Stalin left in the photo.
Horrific that people who actually did some good and were in a position to
do so much good could fail so miserably.
Strange that those who attain more power than most of us ever will
so often lack the moral fiber to resist base temptations of the flesh.
Maybe this is why the left hates Trump and Lincoln and Churchill
with such vicious rage.
“The Left kept silent about the labor leader’s crimes against girls.”
Is anyone surprised?
What is it about brown men and muslim men, and their overwhelming obsession with little girl rape. It is out of control in the UK and Germany. We never hear about illegal immigrants in the U.S. raping kids. Why?
It’s very simple. The Democrats need the votes of these illegals, who they care more for than regular Americans. They have gone so far left they are on another planet.
These girls are not your effing property you P.O.S. losers. You want to rape? GFYs.
Chavez erased in name only. Streets, schools, and holidays already renamed as Farmworker’s Day or Dolires Huerta Day, etc. They don’t skip a beat.