Cesar Chavez ~ Labor Leader
Immigrant Hero and Voice
Immigrant Hero and Voice
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There was a photo
online of Mr. Cesar
Chavez in a plaid shirt
and so I used that as my
source in making him for
my nativity scene.
online of Mr. Cesar
Chavez in a plaid shirt
and so I used that as my
source in making him for
my nativity scene.
Cesar Chavez came to offer the guests at this nativity
gathering some grapes and to tell the story of those
American grapes, if they had not heard it, but they had,
of course.
Cesar was a simple fellow who taught us that ‘it is the
simple fellows who often rock the world with their simple
messages’.
Gandhi said, “Live your beliefs”, and Mr. Chavez did so
and then asked us to do so, also. He asked us not to
eat grapes, to help his people get fairer wages. I sure
did miss grapes for quite awhile there.
It is said that Mexicans take our jobs away from us. This
is not so, but you might not believe me, so first, you
must drive over to Yuma, Arizona in July, sleep on the
ground under garbage bag draped trees and bushes all
night long, go to bed a little hungry and worried and
then spend the next day bent over in the hellish sun
carefully cutting lettuce and taping up boxes and loading
trucks for perhaps just three tiny hours and then tell me
that same silly thing again, okay??!?!?
Mexicans take very very very few jobs that any teenager
or adult American citizen would want to work at. The
pay, the disrespect offered, the danger, the filth, or the
relentless repetitiveness would drive us Americans
away within moments of our arrival at those jobs.
The immigrants see that the hellish jobs lead
somewhere and we totally believe that those jobs are
dead ends.
Cesar Chavez taught us that all workers within our
borders deserve dignity and respect in their lives and
some money, too.
gathering some grapes and to tell the story of those
American grapes, if they had not heard it, but they had,
of course.
Cesar was a simple fellow who taught us that ‘it is the
simple fellows who often rock the world with their simple
messages’.
Gandhi said, “Live your beliefs”, and Mr. Chavez did so
and then asked us to do so, also. He asked us not to
eat grapes, to help his people get fairer wages. I sure
did miss grapes for quite awhile there.
It is said that Mexicans take our jobs away from us. This
is not so, but you might not believe me, so first, you
must drive over to Yuma, Arizona in July, sleep on the
ground under garbage bag draped trees and bushes all
night long, go to bed a little hungry and worried and
then spend the next day bent over in the hellish sun
carefully cutting lettuce and taping up boxes and loading
trucks for perhaps just three tiny hours and then tell me
that same silly thing again, okay??!?!?
Mexicans take very very very few jobs that any teenager
or adult American citizen would want to work at. The
pay, the disrespect offered, the danger, the filth, or the
relentless repetitiveness would drive us Americans
away within moments of our arrival at those jobs.
The immigrants see that the hellish jobs lead
somewhere and we totally believe that those jobs are
dead ends.
Cesar Chavez taught us that all workers within our
borders deserve dignity and respect in their lives and
some money, too.