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Yesterday, my trip took me along Cesar Chavez Avenue or, more specifically Cesar E. Chavez Avenue.
You might be forgiven for thinking that the Latino activist had a middle name that began with E. At least that’s what the local authorities seem to want you to think. But the E stands for something else more revealing.
The full name of the ‘great man’ was Cesar Estrada Chavez. The ‘Estrada’ isn’t a middle name, it was his mother’s last name. Sych hyphenated last names (minus the hyphen) are typical in Latin America, and they’re not reduced to a single letter the way American middle names might be.
So why Cesar E. Chavez Avenue rather than Cesar Estrada Chavez Avenue?
That’s really asking why the labor activist turned cultist wasn’t known by his full name. The answer is all about image. Cesar Chavez sounds strong, simple and working class, whereas Cesar Estrada Chavez sounds more elitist. Americans, then at any rate, were more likely to see hyphenated last names as a mark of dynastic elites (which is not necessarily the case south the border) and dropping the ‘Estrada’ helped make Chavez seem like a man of the people.
That’s how propaganda works. And much like Chavez’s comments about illegal aliens, some things are inconvenient for political reasons and need to be airbrushed away.
Yeah like Barack Hussein Obama.
Do you mean Barry Soetoro? The more insecure a person is in himself and his accomplishments the more names and titles he is likely to add to his name. Observe the astronomical pomp and circumstance of royalty, they achieve nothing, but have a thousand titles.
“Dr.” Jill Biden. “Dr.” Naomi Wolf.
But Thomas Sowell, the most accomplished and significant living, American, intellectual is just Thomas Sowell.
The truly accomplished can afford to be free of affectation, can afford the simplicity of unpretentiousness, their achievement speaks for itself.
Nevertheless, many wealthy landowners in California did treat Mexican field workers with contempt,
and there was much injustice against poor, working laborers.
Today, we turn our heads away from the children born in inner city slums awash in drugs and violence, run by marxist Democrats.
What have good people done to help poor black youth trapped in inner city slums? Problems are getting worse, not better.
President Trump is the only politician I have seen who has tried to alleviate the economic and legal troubles of minorities.
Sorry, I don’t think any middle name is that big a deal. No matter what he did wrong, Cesar Chavez did a lot of good to help his own people. Now, Californians can sleep well at night. NO ONE is trying to do ANYTHING good to help poor working people or middle class taxpayers.
What poor people need is not pity or contempt but LAISSEZ-FAIRE CAPITALISM — a Free Market of economic freedom, liberty, individual rights, secure private property rights, and the rule of OBJECTIVE LAW.
Please do yourself a great, eye-opening, favor and read Hernando De Soto’s “The Mystery of Capital”. You will find out why Latin America is so poor relative to America or Canada. It isn’t because of capitalism but because the Latin American countries LACK capitalism, they lack secure individual rights and secure private property rights. They lack the rule of OBJECTIVE law.
As an aside, sadly and ironically Hernando De Soto’s birth name is simply Hernando Soto but he pretentiously added the upper class, landed gentry, honorific, “De” to his name. Snobbery and classism are even more powerful and prevalent than racism in Latin America.
Actually, Richard Nixon did just that. He called it “Goals and Timetables” for the construction industry. It worked.
He chose not to use his full name, publically. So did Pablo RUIZ Picasso, Joan CHANDOS Baez, and Elizabeth ROSEMUND, Taylor. It’s no big deal