Why do some antis dislike Cesar Chavez?

Question

He was American! He fought for fair labour practises and higher pay and safer working conditions and fought a wider fight against racial opression.

If you don't call him a true American than who is or was?

And if you never heard of him than that is sad. I mean that.

Chavez was against illegals replaceing farm workers for strikes and being used to keep down farm work wages. Let's get the facts straight.

Answer 1

I was A bodyguard for Cesar when he was in Arizona, He believe strongly in non-violence, he knew that the growers , police and the Government would destroy the movement ,if there was any violence. Anti's hate Chavez because he beat them at their own game, Every legal roadblock they erected, he found tactics to overcome them. He started a world wide boycott of California grapes and Ice burg lettuce.Dockworkers in Europe refused to offload those products from ships. Cesar Chavez brought the California growers to their knees and forced them to sign a Union contract with The United Farm workers Union. At the completion of the contract, the growers signed "sweetheart " contract with the Mafia controlled Teamster Union. The court annulled the contracts and the grower again signed with the U.F.W. (Si Se Puede) It can be done!

Answer 2

Chavez was against illegals from crossing the border and not just for replacements in strikes so you need to get your facts straight. He under stood the economics of supply and demand

Answer 3

Cesar Chavez was a true American !!

Answer 4

Anti's don't have a problem with CC per se. Some of us don't like people having 'wet lines' to beat up illegal immigrants, or anyone else, and think that is pretty crude tactics we hardly want to idealize. However, he did help farm worker wages and benefits, for his generation, until mass illegal immigration undermined them again.

Me, I didn't eat grapes. I was too young to be otherwise involved.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050330/news_lz1e30navar.html

Answer 5

Mr. Chavez is, in every sense of the word, a true American Hero. Though I might have gotten cross with him over technology doing the work of laborers, I honestly believe there is little else he and I could have found to grapple over.

In fact, if he were alive today, he would be taking the Pro-American side and supporting stronger enforcement as he did at the height of his stand.

His fight was against anything that would take hard-earned opportunity from the field laborers like him and his father.

While technology redirects that opportunity, it does NOT diminish it. [A word to the wise: It strengthens it.] It hasn't done so in ANY society that embraced such technology and then, adjusted by reducing birthrates so that their children would be much wealthier than their parents. Nothing in life is fair or easy. But adaptation sure makes up the difference better than anything else we have.


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Answer 6

I respect Cesar Chavez and his really hard work if is wasn't for hem imagine how many workers would be mistreated in today's life and yes is an American and he did made a noticeable deference in America.

Answer 7

I don't understand why the illegal entrants see the man who FIRST patroled the border Minute Man style, with his "wet lines" designed to stop illegals from entering the US, and his searches in the fields for illegals, with the resulting calls to immigration as THEIR hero.

NOTE to C.C.G.: Cesar Chavez was an AMERICAN, born in Yuma, AZ, served in the US Navy, and his "people" are Americans.

Answer 8

Because about 14 years ago they change the name of Army Street in San Francisco for Cesar Chavez, and that's not fair, let's see if we try to change the name of any street in Latin America from any local hero into Army St. what would they say...

Answer 9

He sounds wonderful, that is what America is about , Americans takin care of Americans.

Answer 10

"The UFW during Chávez's tenure was committed to restricting immigration."

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