The New York Times went public with its article detailing some of labor leader Cesar Chavez’s rapes and sexual abuses of underage girls and all the Southwestern Democrats who made the deceased activist into the Latino MLK are running the other way, canceling festivals, parades and commemorations, covering up statues like Chavez’s last name was Washington or Columbus.
I have an article coming on Chavez shortly, but the short version is that it was no great secret that later in life, the ‘farmworker saint’ became a creepy cult leader, nor was his serial adultery much of a secret either. Dolores Huerta coming forward to say he raped her, is news, as are the allegations by women who were young girls at the time, but it’s not exactly surprising to anyone familiar with Chavez’s transformation into a cult leader, his obsession with Gandhi, who had his own troubling history with women and girls, or the behavior of other leaders of the era.
From JFK to MLK, the ‘heroes’ of boomer liberals not only had clay feet, but were egomaniacal monsters with very little self-control especially around the opposite sex. The nation was transformed by the sorts of men you would never leave in a room alone with your wife or daughter, and by the women who covered up assiduously for them. Bill Clinton acted the way that he did because he was a pale imitation of his idols. The bigger ‘stars’ in this universe behaved worse. And some of them did not draw the line at preying on children either.
Most of this was covered up by their admirers and the movements that formed around them, and then by the wider circle of liberals and leftists in the media who didn’t want to tarnish the image of the cause. Chavez, like Sanger, is being canceled because he ceased to be useful. MLK, who’s still useful, is on his pedestal despite audio of him cheering on a rape. (Let’s see if he stays on his pedestal after 2027 when all the FBI files get released.)
JFK, the myth that Clinton and, more pathetically, Joe Biden wanted to embody, has had enough of his dirt out there without anyone really caring. Chavez however was useless even when he was alive. After death his image became a useful political tool, but he didn’t stand for enough of the right things, like illegal migration, to be worth keeping around.
Now maybe you’ll be able to buy the head of one of his statues on eBay.
