http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2721308/posts?page=35#35
ON THE INTERNET:
www3.niu.edu/~td0raf1/history261/nov1914.htm
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Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers Movement
Probably no movement among Latinos received more national attention than the struggle by Cesar Chavez and the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) to organize the migrant farm workers. Calling for a nationwide boycott of California grapes and a March from Delano, in California’s Central Valley, to the state capitol in Sacramento-among other actions-Chavez and the ATWA combined issues of race and labor relations into a single movement.
The Tale of the Raza
LUIS VALDEZ
Chicano author Luis Valdez assessed the larger impact of this struggle for La Raza (The Race), as well as for the workers.
The revolt in Delano is more than a labor struggle. Mexican grape pickers did not rnarch 300 miles to Sacramento, carrying the standard of the Virgin de Guadalupe, merely to dramatize economic grievances. Beyond unionization, beyond politics, there is the desire of a New World race to reconcile the conflicts of its 500-year-old history. La Raza is trying to find its place sun it once worshipped as a Supreme Being.
La Raza, the race, is the Mexican people.
The why doesn’t La f**king Raza march it’s bigoted, pugnacious and racist butts back down to Mexico City and overthrow their own God damned government instead of mouthing off here in my country? I don’t need to hear their bs and neither does my country. I’m sick of my tax dollars being used to support Mexican bigots.
Then isn't anyone who struggles, militates, and fights -- or even just "represents" -- for The Race, ipso facto and perforce, a Race-ist?