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Rosario Dawson, how dare you lecture Dolores Huerta?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/27/rosario-dawson-dolores-huerta-bernie-sanders
Cindy Casares
If labor activist Huerta has concerns about Bernie Sanders, lets listen to them. Dont insult her integrity by calling her an instrument of the establishment
Last modified on Sunday 27 March 2016 13.34 EDT
Despite the most recent primary results, Bernie Sanders is still losing to Hillary Clinton. In my opinion, its not because he has bad ideas, but because his campaign strategy is to portray himself as an exemplar of moral virtue and Clinton as evil incarnate. Not only that, he decries anyone who doesnt agree with him as a corrupt sell-out. Some of his supporters seem to agree.
When legendary farm labor, feminist, and voting rights activist Dolores Huerta published an op-ed saying she didnt know enough about Sanders to vote for him, citing his inconsistent record on immigration and his lack of presence in the United Farm Workers struggle (thats the labor union she co-founded with the late Cesar Chavez), the person who spoke up on Sanders behalf was an actress who once played Huerta in a poorly received biopic of Chavez. Rosario Dawson, a 36-year-old from New York City whose Latino ancestors hail from Puerto Rico, a US territory, and Cuba, the beneficiary of an open-door US immigration policy these last 57 years, wrote an op-ed in the Huffington Post lecturing Huerta.
I am surprised, dismayed, and concerned that you would do your legacy such a disservice by becoming an instrument of the establishment, rather than joining this movement to create a better America like you once inspired us to do, Dawson said.
Forget that Huerta not only cofounded the UFW but has dedicated six decades to fighting on the front lines of the workers rights movement. Shes been arrested 22 times while demonstrating for the cause and was even hospitalized in 1988 as a grandmother with two broken ribs and a ruptured spleen while protesting President George HW Bushs opposition to the UFW grape boycott. Forget all of it. Dawson has declared Huertas legacy destroyed on Bernies behalf.
In case there was any doubt as to whether Sanders approved of her message, Dawson was subsequently picked to introduce him at speaking events in San Diego and Los Angeles, where she told crowds to be wary of the media. She spoke of how she been registering Latino voters for 11 years through Voto Latino. Good for her. Dolores Huerta has been doing it for 56, since back when that kind of thing could get you lynched.
The whole episode smacks of the Sanders overall style, one that, in the words of former Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank, alienates his natural allies.
Frank once said of Sanders: His holier-than-thou attitude saying in a very loud voice he is smarter than everyone else and purer than everyone else really undercuts his effectiveness ... To him, everyone who disagrees with him is a crook.
I suppose that, in addition to Huerta, UFW president Arturo Rodriguez (Cesar Chavezs son-in-law, who has been fighting with the UFW since 1973), is a crook, too. He also wrote an op-ed questioning Bernie Sanders voting record on immigration.............................................
Cha
(297,029 posts)says so. If anything Dawson's reputation just got smirched by her own hand.
Who does she think she is.. Susan Sarandon? What a nincompoop
Thanks rivers..
obamanut2012
(26,049 posts)With Michael Pena and America Ferrara.
Cha
(297,029 posts)must think of Rosario because I know she's a Hillary supporter.. not knowing she was in the movie, too.
I really like Michael Pena.. hope he hasn't gone all throwing DH under the BS bus like dawson.
riversedge
(70,177 posts)night!!
livetohike
(22,133 posts)I agree with Barney Frank.
Gothmog
(145,046 posts)LuvLoogie
(6,971 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)pandr32
(11,572 posts)It's a personality disorder!
sheshe2
(83,708 posts)for me to kick and rec this enough.
Thanks riversedge.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)And I thought she'd be smarter. That's why this is so disappointing to me.