Why It Issues That The Household Of Cesar Chavez Endorsed Joe Biden Not RFK Jr.

Cesar Chavez’s household endorsed President Joe Biden on Friday, after RFK, Jr claimed that the civil rights chief would have voted for the Unbiased who’s flirting with operating on the Libertarian ticket.

“Fernando and Paul Chavez, the sons of the late co-founder of the United Farm Workers, are endorsing the president on Friday, the Biden campaign told CBS News. The family already has close ties to the campaign as Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the granddaughter of Chavez, serves as the president’s campaign manager,” Ed O’Keefe reported for CBS News.

“‘The bonds of affection and respect for a president who by his character and actions consistently reflects the genuine legacy of my father, Cesar Chavez,’ Paul Chavez said in a statement.”

The Biden-Harris marketing campaign supervisor is definitely Julie Chavez Rodriguez, who’s the granddaughter of the late civil rights chief. She advised CBS, “Right now, my grandfather’s bust sits within the Oval Workplace – a reminder that President Biden understands the facility of organizing and dealing folks and acknowledges the impression of my grandfather’s legacy to proceed to mobilize our communities into motion. In an election that may decide the destiny of organized labor, our Latino group, and our democracy, I couldn’t be extra humbled to simply accept the assist of my household as one in every of many that may energy us to victory in November ¡Si se puede!”

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is hoping to journey to no matter victory means to him on the facility of his title, which evokes Camelot for a lot of American voters — however his family don’t assist his candidacy.

Nonetheless, the Chavez household have been outraged after RFK, Jr’s marketing campaign used a photograph of his father sitting with Chavez in 1968.

“Once we noticed Bobby Kennedy start to make use of photographs of my father, after which after we heard about this occasion in L.A., it actually prompted us to face up and to be sure that folks understood that the Chavez household doesn’t assist his marketing campaign,” Paul Chavez, Fernando’s brother, mentioned to the LA Times. “We’ve by no means seen anyone go so far as utilizing that picture for political achieve,” Andres Chavez, Paul’s son, mentioned of Kennedy’s marketing campaign occasion invitation.

The Libertarian Celebration and RFK, Jr. have been in discussions for him to run on their ticket, one thing they’re mentioned to see as “mutually beneficial.”

Libertarianism, nonetheless, stands towards Civil Rights and it’s not fairly as indirect a stance as they’ve tried to whitewash it to be.

In 1991, the libertarian economist who co-founded and named the Institute was complaining about protections against sexual harassment famous that “the start of the evil can be pinpointed precisely: the monstrous Civil Rights Act of 1964, specifically Title VII, prohibited discrimination in employment on the basis of race, religion, sex, and other possible characteristics.”

It’s unimaginable to reconcile the hostility towards any form of laws defending towards violations of civil rights with a acknowledged assist for civil rights. The whole motive we’d like legal guidelines to guard civil rights is as a result of folks historically in energy (white males of cash – the face of the beneficiaries of Libertarian coverage positions) abuse and violate these elementary freedoms with out legal guidelines prohibiting it.

Libertarianism is about “freedom” for many who have already got it. It’s about sustaining the established order and defending the rich elites behind it from having to be accountable for respecting different folks’s freedom. However it sounds nice on the floor and is a straightforward promote to principally younger white women and men who haven’t confronted private adversity.

From the basement of 1’s mother or father’s residence within the suburbs, donning a cowboy hat to wax on about freedom will be a part of rising up. However in some unspecified time in the future, most individuals’s development encompasses studying about historical past and having experiences exterior of their very own that open their eyes to why legal guidelines defending civil rights are wanted.

These causes and that compassion and development are why folks of integrity assist legal guidelines that shield EVERYONE’S freedoms, not simply these presently in energy.

“Cesar Chavez’s family endorsed President Biden, sending a clear message to voters that only one candidate in this race embodies the compassion, respect, and integrity that Cesar Chavez led with. Aligned with Cesar Chavez’s legacy, President Biden has shown unwavering support for labor rights and civil rights — this endorsement confirms just that,” the Biden marketing campaign mentioned in an e mail.

President Biden earned the assist of those that worth civil rights and champion the rights of employees by a long time of assist, which he has continued as president. And that’s actually the purpose. Anybody can use a picture to promote themselves to voters as some form of Civil Rights hero, however do their actions assist that? Do their insurance policies shield these rights?

If not, voters ought to ask why they’re making an attempt to mislead folks.

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