{"id":2207968,"date":"2024-03-28T03:33:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T07:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-cant-keep-up-moderate-facade-while-celebrating-violent-radical-cesar-chavez\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T03:43:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T07:43:28","slug":"rfk-jr-cant-keep-up-moderate-facade-while-celebrating-violent-radical-cesar-chavez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-cant-keep-up-moderate-facade-while-celebrating-violent-radical-cesar-chavez\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr.&#8217;s Discrepancy: Celebrating Cesar Chavez&#8217;s Radicalism Contradicts Moderate Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frfk-jr-cant-keep-up-moderate-facade-while-celebrating-violent-radical-cesar-chavez%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2207968&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text highlights\u2063 the shifting perception\u2063 of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from an environmental hero to a controversial figure\u200c due to his stance on vaccines and associations with right-wing personalities. It discusses his decision to host an \u2064event celebrating Cesar Chavez, shedding light on the complexities\u2064 of Chavez&#8217;s legacy amidst political ideologies and historical context. The narrative delves into \u2063the transformation of Robert \u200cF. Kennedy Jr. from an environmental advocate to a polarizing figure, examining his vaccination views\u2064 and connections to conservative figures. It also\u200c explores his choice to honor Cesar Chavez, \u200bproviding insights into the multifaceted legacy of Chavez within political realms and historical perspectives.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Before the corporate media were tarring and feathering <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/12\/06\/lifelong-climate-radical-rfk-jr-is-no-friend-of-the-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a> as a vaxx denier who <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rfk-kennedy-election-2024-president-campaign-621c9e9641381a1b2677df9de5a09731\">consorted with<\/a> the likes of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/debunking-some-of-rfk-jr-s-contradictory-statements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon and Michael Flynn<\/a>,\u201d they lauded the Kennedy family scion as a heroic defender of the environment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Time Magazine once named Bobby Kennedy\u2019s son as one of its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/subscriber\/article\/0,33009,991659,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Heroes for the Planet<\/a>\u201d for his environmental activism as an attorney with New York\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cuspconference.com\/presenters\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Riverkeeper Inc<\/a>. Today, Time publishes <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6292191\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-conspiracy-theory-vaccines-essay\/\">stories<\/a> about what a crackpot its \u201chero\u201d is for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-lost-all-credibility-on-social-distancing-after-biden-celebrations\/\" title=\"Dems Lost All Credibility On Social Distancing After Biden Celebrations\">raising red flags<\/a> about <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/30\/heres-where-every-gop-senator-stands-on-the-risky-covid-shots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Covid vaccines<\/a> rushed onto the market that have not proved \u201csafe\u201d and \u201ceffective,\u201d as their manufacturers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pfizer.com\/news\/press-release\/press-release-detail\/pfizer-and-biontech-confirm-high-efficacy-and-no-serious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">promised.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1459918836\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e035d56781a8e26aebe1d051af96e8fe fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e035d56781a8e26aebe1d051af96e8fe\"><\/div>\n<p>But despite finding an area of common ground or two with Americans outside of the elitist politics bubble, Kennedy remains a liberal to his core \u2014 so much so that he\u2019s hosting a celebration for one of the more brutal socialists to come out of the Marxist movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-man-trying-to-shake-up-yales-secretive-governing-body\/\" title=\"Meet the Man Trying to Shake Up Yale\u2019s Secretive Governing Body\">independent candidate<\/a> for president \u2014 who earlier this year <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/rfk-jrs-switch-independent-campaign-draws-criticism-republicans\/story?id=103860523\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">left a Democrat Party<\/a> his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, would not recognize \u2014 is hosting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy24.com\/cesar-chavez-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cesar Chavez Day event<\/a> to \u201ccelebrate the life and legacy\u201d of the socialist co-founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/guides.loc.gov\/latinx-civil-rights\/united-farm-workers-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Farm Workers Association<\/a> predecessor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ufw.org\/research\/history\/story-cesar-chavez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">United Farm Workers<\/a>. RFK Jr.\u2019s party for the late leftist will be held on Saturday, March 30, at Union Station in Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis event, on Chavez\u2019s birthday holiday weekend, will include remarks by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., music by the all-female mariachi group Las Colibr\u00ed, inspiring words by Bishop Juan Carlos Mendez, words of support from former LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, Mexican food, voter registration assistance, and more,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/truth-former-ohio-treasurer-and-2022-senatorial-candidate-josh-mandel-claims-2020-election-stolen-from-trump\/\" title=\"TRUTH: Former Ohio Treasurer and 2022 Senatorial Candidate Josh Mandel Claims 2020 Election Stolen from Trump\">campaign press release<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Would the Real Cesar Chavez Please Stand Up?\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Kennedy\u2019s hero, lifted up as a \u201csaint\u201d to some on the left, was known to be a violent union boss and a self-righteous Catholic with a penchant for philandering. While Chavez has been heralded by liberal Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden, his legacy on the left \u2014 particularly among open-border leftists \u2014 is, well, complicated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ac46ffbf6d5ab7e10084a332ef3e7827 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ac46ffbf6d5ab7e10084a332ef3e7827\"><\/div>\n<p>The accomplice media are generally loathe to call out Chavez\u2019s shortcomings, particularly when his character warts bump up against the modern-day left\u2019s agenda. Any depiction other than Chavez as a selfless defender of the poor field hand leading a worker revolution seems off limits. But liberal publication Medium in 2018 published a <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/22westmag\/a-flawed-hero-547cfea556bf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">piece<\/a> headlined, \u201cA Flawed Hero: The Complex Legacy of Cesar Chavez.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What was the Chicano saint\u2019s major flaw? He was an \u201cadvocate for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/there-will-be-no-enforcement-sheriff-blasts-biden-for-dismantling-ice\/\" title=\"\u2018There Will Be No Enforcement\u2019: Sheriff Blasts Biden For \u2018Dismantling\u2019 ICE\">strong border security<\/a>,\u201d according to the publication. Chavez didn\u2019t like illegal immigrants breaking his powerful strike lines and taking jobs from his would-be union farm workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe went to great lengths to make sure immigrants couldn\u2019t get into the country by creating what the UFW [United Farm Workers] called \u2018wet lines,\u2019\u201d the piece laments.\u00a0\u201cThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latintimes.com\/cesar-chavez-legacy-wet-lines-illegals-campaign-dark-side-latino-icons-opposition-162528\">wet lines<\/a>\u2019 initiative consisted of UFW members who would stop people from crossing the border between Yuma, Arizona and San Luis, Mexico. Led by Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s cousin Manuel, UFW members would even brutally beat border crossers and rob them of their possessions, according to Marian Pawel, author of \u2018The Crusades of Cesar Ch\u00e1vez.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chavez, according the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latintimes.com\/cesar-chavez-legacy-wet-lines-illegals-campaign-dark-side-latino-icons-opposition-162528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Latin Times,<\/a> launched the \u201cIllegals Campaign,\u201d directing union members to report illegal immigrants working in the fields to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-across-u-s-take-bidens-lead-seek-to-ban-illegal-alien-term\/\" title=\"Democrats Across U.S. Take Biden's Lead, Seek to Ban 'Illegal Alien' Term\">federal immigration agents<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d744749fce01ac0e0b095463e3ab520b fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d744749fce01ac0e0b095463e3ab520b\"><\/div>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t sound like the Gandhi-like principles of nonviolent protest supposedly at the core of Chavez\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/chavez.cde.ca.gov\/modelcurriculum\/teachers\/lessons\/resources\/Documents\/Chavez_Biography_by_Levy.PDF\">La Causa<\/a>.\u201d The union boss\u2019s position on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/white-house-refers-illegal-immigrants-newcomers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cnewcomers\u201d<\/a> \u2014 the descriptor for illegal aliens the White House was auditioning before Biden\u2019s expressed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/biden-apologize-term-illegal-state-union-white-house\/story?id=108016777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regret<\/a>\u201d for using the term \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/biden-apologize-term-illegal-state-union-white-house\/story?id=108016777\">illegal<\/a>\u201d during his State of the Union address \u2014 certainly doesn\u2019t fit the modern left\u2019s vision of illegals and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org\/research\/dream-act-overview\">dreamers<\/a>\u201d parading through a borderless country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Runs in the Family\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Biden is so enamored of Chavez that he put up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9172701\/Bidens-new-hero-Bust-Mexican-socialist-Cesar-Chavez-taken-pride-place-Oval-Office.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">22-inch bust <\/a>of the radical labor leader in the Oval Office as one of his first acts as president. He gave the bust of Winston Churchill the boot at the same time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a new radical socialist in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/white-house\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/joe-biden\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> also moved in yesterday,\u201d \u00a0the Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9172701\/Bidens-new-hero-Bust-Mexican-socialist-Cesar-Chavez-taken-pride-place-Oval-Office.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Biden\u2019s boss, Barack Obama, co-opted Chavez\u2019s rallying cry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/10\/08\/us\/cesar-chavez-president-obama\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cSi Se Puede!\u201d (Yes We Can)<\/a>, in his 2008 campaign for the White House. Obama paid the long-deceased union leader back with a <a href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/the-press-office\/2014\/03\/28\/presidential-proclamation-cesar-chavez-day-2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proclamation<\/a> creating the informal federal holiday Cesar Chavez Day each March 31. Years before, Clinton posthumously awarded Chavez the <a href=\"https:\/\/chavez.cde.ca.gov\/ResearchCenter\/DocumentDisplayRC.aspx?rpg=\/chdocuments\/documentdisplay.jsp&#038;doc=6212dd%3Aead754e3ce%3A-7f24&#038;searchhit=yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Medal of Freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The proclamations and speeches didn\u2019t include anything about the civil rights activist\u2019s iron fist rule of his union, the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9172701\/Bidens-new-hero-Bust-Mexican-socialist-Cesar-Chavez-taken-pride-place-Oval-Office.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brutal purges of his enemies<\/a>,\u201d or his reported <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.ucsd.edu\/farmworkermovement\/ufwarchives\/DebbieMillerArchive\/Anti-UFW1970s\/John%20Birch%20Society.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ties to communists<\/a>.\u00a0Chavez began his life\u2019s work as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/blog\/20884\/on-cesar-chavez-day-recalling-his-forgotten-mentor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full-time organizer<\/a> paid by king radical and modern left icon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/person\/saul-alinsky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Saul Alinsky<\/a>, father of community organizing.  <\/p>\n<p>Leftists love true-blue socialists almost as much as they love rewriting history. And any enemy of capitalism is a friend to the left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RFK Jr. is a leftist who has long had a man crush on Cesar Chavez. Junior was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy24.com\/rfk_jr_host_cesar_chavez_day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pallbearer<\/a> at the activist\u2019s funeral in 1993. Said affection runs in the family. Kennedy\u2019s father, slain New York senator and Democrat presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy, apparently thought the unfaithful, heavy-handed Chavez walked on water. The senior Kennedy met with Chavez in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/1968-project\/2018\/05\/21\/cesar-chavez-rfk-unite-economic-justice\/627882002\/\">1968<\/a> on the California vineyards strike lines. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the end of the day, Kennedy had embraced Chavez and La Causa,\u201d PBS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/rfk-cesar-chavez\/#:~:text=%22By%20the%20end%20of%20the,with%20the%20farmworkers%20were%20erased.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, quoting biographer Arthur Schlesinger\u2019s work, in a glowing review of Chavez\u2019s life that reads more like an application for sainthood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RFK Jr. says he is continuing the legacy of his father, who was a \u201cstaunch supporter of farmworkers throughout his life.\u201d Bobby Kennedy also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/how-robert-kennedy-transformed-from-conservative-into-liberal-champion-civil-rights-180969242\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">veered further and further left<\/a> following his brother\u2019s assassination.\u00a0But he remained solidly anti-communist, like his older brother, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/john-kennedy-and-foreign-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jack,<\/a> throughout his life, even if he respected communist-consorting Chavez. <\/p>\n<p>His son, although no longer a Democrat, remains on the far left of the political spectrum in most of his policy positions \u2014 just like the environmental hero\u2019s hero, Cesar Chavez.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-193c70f02e0b2620ab88b4daec2a1a34 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-193c70f02e0b2620ab88b4daec2a1a34\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before being labeled a vaccine denier and associated with controversial figures like Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon, Robert F. 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