OPINION — Like other social justice advocates I too organized, marched, boycotted and engaged in personal interactions with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta in support of the farmworker movement. Like many others, I too am troubled by the recent Cesar and Dolores revelations.
Unlike some, however, I strongly disagree with rushing to destroy every public reference related to the Chavez-Huerta legacy. To impulsively erase or elevate either of our public life icons is to further complicate the already ignored and diminished history of the Mexican American community.
Instead of destruction, I propose preservation and presentation of public sculptures, signage and memorabilia to be housed in educational and museum institutions within the communities that today are too eager to erase our uncomfortably complicated history that goes beyond the farmworker movement.
