Nouveau Riche Kids, the Liberal Naive: Google takes Easter heat over Cesar Chavez doodle

A net negative to both sides. Chavez, as an organized labor leader, wanted to limit the supply of illegal labor coming from Mexico in order to drive up his union's wages while 'chicano' politicians want(ed) more bodies across the border to increase their cynical, political clout. Chavez ended in the roll, similar to Ireland's Michael Collins, getting the best compromise he felt he could get and in the end pleasing neither side. Today, he is used as a self promotion prop by Democrat politicians and by the politically and historically naive, much the likes of whom determine the Google Doodles.

The UFW called a strike in support of its demands, and posted "wet patrols" on the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent unauthorized Mexicans from replacing strikers. The UFW was only partially successful: Chavez complained that "employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted use of illegal alien strikebreakers to break the strike."

Google takes Easter heat over Cesar Chavez doodle - CSMonitor.com
3-31-13
Google is taking heat for its Easter Sunday doodle – that cartoon modification of its logo that changes from day to day.

Today, the middle letter is a round portrait of the late migrant farm labor union leader Cesar Chavez.

Like many such doodles, it comes on the birthday of the subject. Mr. Chavez was born March 31, 1927 in Yuma, Arizona.