[gr8eman]

Anybody got intel on this Chavez guy? Was he the typical commie/lib, or a real person?

[Salman]

Anybody got intel on this Chavez guy? Was he the typical commie/lib, or a real person?

He was the one who organized the lettuce boycott. Remember that?

[BlackElk]

Chavez was certainly no conservative but neither was Lincoln. Chavez was VERY Catholic and organized his United Farmworkers Union (AFL-CIO) by using a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe as a rallying standard, using prayer, arguing for the dignity of the farm laborers. He was also very outspokenly pro-life. He died of heart trouble at an early age.

Unlike Lincoln, Chavez also did not bring about or attempt to bring about the death of 600,000 Union folks and Confederates in order to force the latter to remain in the Union in violation of Amendment X of the Constitution. Why choose between them? you can have them both. We also have Martin Luther King Day. We might also want to honor Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson davis, et al. Diversity need not be all left.