To the editor: Columnist Anita Chabria has discovered a technique to put into phrases what so many people felt after listening to the information about Cesar Chavez (“‘My silence ends right here’: The heartbreaking burden of Dolores Huerta,” March 18). He was such a hero for thus many people again in our ’60s faculty days. Posters of him had been displayed on dorm room partitions, proper subsequent to these of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
We felt like we had been doing one thing good and necessary once we boycotted grapes after which lettuce. He helped train us that boycotts, marches and protests may convey actual change. We by no means considered him as a saint, although his seemingly egocentric sacrifices and actions served as examples for the way many people hoped to dwell our lives.
That’s the reason these allegations are so devastating. He apparently wasn’t only a flawed human being, one thing we may all settle for. He was, based mostly on the allegations, a dreadful monster. And Chabria made it considerably much less painful to just accept that horrific truth.
Stephen F. Gladstone, Shaker Heights, Ohio
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To the editor: I counsel Chavez’s title on streets, colleges and authorities buildings get replaced with Dolores Huerta’s (“As she and Cesar Chavez made historical past, Dolores Huerta carried a surprising secret,” March 18).
She was each bit as necessary to the farmworkers’ labor motion as Chavez was. She co-founded United Farm Staff with him, performed a vital position in organizing the Delano grape strike in 1965 and is credited with coining “sí se puede,” the rallying cry for the motion that we nonetheless hear at this time. She acquired the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
Huerta’s impression didn’t finish with the formation of UFW. It continues to at the present time, as present main politicians and organizers credit score her with their very own inspirations to enter public service.
Nathalie Hoffman, Marina del Rey
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To the editor: For such an icon of civil and financial rights for individuals who present our meals to fall thus far and in such shame is disheartening, to say the least (“Cesar Chavez accused of abusing women, raping fellow chief Dolores Huerta, newspaper inquiry finds,” March 18).
What’s to grow to be of the vacation that when celebrated and honored this man? My suggestion is that it turns into “Ending Violence In opposition to Ladies and Ladies Day.” Sure, the title wants work, however you perceive the concept.
David Schaffner, Arroyo Grande
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To the editor: I’ve lengthy puzzled why the media and authorities have continued to laud Chavez as one of many solely Latino leaders value elevating and naming streets after. It has been 178 years because the finish of the Mexican-American Conflict, Puerto Rico has been a territory of the U.S. for greater than 100 years, and we all know that the folks we now name Latino have been current within the U.S. since its founding.
All through the Southwest, there have been Mexican American leaders in finance, training, the navy and extra, however Chavez dominated the conversations when it got here time to call colleges, streets and different amenities that serve massive Mexican American communities.
It’s time folks be taught extra about Celedonio Mondragón, Emma Tenayuca, Corky Gonzales, Marcelino Serna, Felipe Baca, Raúl Héctor Castro, Héctor P. García, Herman Badillo and Richie Pérez. We now have loads of folks to look as much as as examples past Cesar Chavez.
Adriana Maestas, Irvine
