Disgust. Outrage. Betrayal.
Those are plenty of reasons to knock Cesar E. Chavez off the lofty pedestal where he resided for farmworkers, and especially the Latino community. They once adored him and would go to any lengths for him, including marching 366 miles in a historic protest from Delano to Sacramento in 1966.
The founder of the United Farm Workers should now be thrown onto the heap of men whose sexual abuse can never be defended, no matter how much good came from their work. His name no longer deserves a place on street signs, a national monument, countless parks, a Navy vessel or a state holiday.
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