What Is Good About Cesar Chavez?

[Father Heathen]

Now, consider you knee jerked yourself into a hella reaction that is embarrassingly wrong. So eager to criticize and potentially demonize, it seems, that you really jumped the gun on this one.
And as this one seems to be unknown to Trumpeters; Hugo Chavez died several years ago.

That's precisely the problem. That's how stupid **** like Qanon thrived. Completely absurd and asinine but people still ran with it because it tickled their political narrative.

 

[sun rise]

Once again, honestly @KenS and I mean this with sincerity and without malice: You wouldn't get into these situations so frequently if you just took five minutes to google things.

And if you get your information from real sources instead of some lying media outlet, I'd be more inclined to take it seriously instead of an almost automatic dismissal. The choice is yours.

 

[Kenny]

Oh FFS... I understand that you confused two different people but even so, what kind of cartoon world do you live in to believe that Biden would actually display a Hugo Chavez bust? How would that be plausable or make sense?

It didn't.... that is what I was questioning (erroneously, of course)

 

[Secret Chief]

what kind of cartoon world do you live in to believe that Biden would actually display a Hugo Chavez bust? How would that be plausable or make sense?

It could be a bookend with his Ernesto Guevara bust.

 

[Stevicus]

For those who don't know, this was the President of Venezuela that said he wanted socialism and ended up as a dictator. The bust now resides in the Oval Office.

NBC said it "stirs excitement".

'That's Cesar Chavez!': Bust of civil rights icon behind President Joe Biden stirs excitement

Is it exciting for you? Why?
Is it not exciting for you? Why?


EDIT!

I have made a mistake... Venezuelan president was Hugo Chavez.

Cesar did a great job supporting the abused workers.

Well, even if you're getting thrashed over confusing Hugo Chavez with Cesar Chavez, I actually didn't know that Biden put a bust of Cesar Chavez on his desk before opening this thread. I was looking through news sites earlier, but I must have missed this one.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for Cesar Chavez. I see no problem with Biden displaying a bust of Chavez in his office.

From the article you linked, it says that Cesar Chavez's granddaughter is a White House official:

The bust, which had been in California, at the Cesar Chavez National Monument, was sent to Washington at the request of the White House, according to the Cesar Chavez Foundation. The foundation said it had never before been in the Oval Office.

"Placing a bust of my father in the Oval Office symbolizes the hopeful new day that is dawning for our nation," Chavez's son Paul Chavez, president of the Cesar Chavez Foundation, said in a statement. "That isn't just because it honors my dad, but more importantly because it represents faith and empowerment for an entire people on whose behalf he fought and sacrificed."

One of Biden's White House officials, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the director of the Office of Intergovernmental Relations, is Chavez's granddaughter.

"I'm very excited and honored that it's something he chose as a symbol in his office," she said. "It's an honor and a real tribute to the community."

The Latino community has been hit disproportionately by the pandemic, with higher rates of cases and deaths. A large share of people without legal status living in the country are Latino, including many farmworkers.

Dolores Huerta, a civil rights leader who organized workers with Chavez, hadn't seen video or photos of the bust when she was reached for comment Wednesday evening, but she had been told of its presence in the White House.

"I think it's exciting he did that. It's like a reverence to farmworkers, and to do that in front of the Cesar bust shows his sincerity he has, especially when it comes to workers," she said. "Biden's commitment to workers is very strong."

 

[Stevicus]

It could be a bookend with his Ernesto Guevara bust.

This will be displayed in front of the White House now:

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for Cesar Chavez. I see no problem with Biden displaying a bust of Chavez in his office.

I thought it was interesting how Biden is redecorating. Andrew Jackson and Winston Churchill are gone. In is a large variety of people representing all sorts of backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.
It's such a refreshing breath of fresh air after four years of a Bozo-in-Chief proclaiming there are good people among a crowd of white supremacist racists.

 

[GardenLady]

No... I'm not as perfect as you are... an honest mistake.

. Have never and would never claim perfection. I was making an observation about a pattern.

 

[tytlyf]

I'll be honest, when I first saw that bust I thought it was Hilary Clinton when watching live.