39th Avenue now Cesar E. Chavez Blvd.

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Allow me to be blasphemous for a second. I just don't get it. I understand that Chavez was a fine leader in the 60s, but I just don't see how he rises to a level of an MLK. It's not even close.

And I also don't get why we need a street named after him. I am from California, I used to live in the central valley. There it makes sense. But what connection does he have to Portland? None really.

I am a liberal, but this is liberal hooey through and through.

As a moderate, I have no problem with this (they just got the wrong street). I have witnessed (even recently) migrant seasonal farm workers working tremendous amounts of hours in the sun, arms coverd in oozing sores from pesticides & herbicides, young kids from age 6 on up working beside them, living in "picker's cabins" that were rotting 12X12 shanty shacks with no running water or electricity when the owners lived in literal mansions a few hundred yards away. The pay was miniscule and anyone who dared complain was blackballed from working in the Pacific Northwest. Chavez stood up for them at a time when no politician (and I mean none) cared two cents for them. He fought off a lot of bigotry and even violence to make some important (sadly, many turned out to be temporary) improvements for these people who did jobs no one else would do. Thru it all he had a sense of great dignity and I was deeply impressed.

 

[PapaG]

That's not a bigoted comment?

No. A stereotypical comment, but certainly not bigoted.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Didn't we do that already?

barfo

I hope so . . . do you know the economic benefit you get from a strip mall?

There are still some parks and wasteful recreation centers here in Washington County . . . Pave It!

 

[MARIS61]

I'm pretty sure they did it just to piss off a bunch of Blazers fans on message boards.

I applaud their success.

 

[bodyman5001]

You are all stupid, including the morons who did this. The easiest change would have been one that hardly anyone would have noticed.

Cesar E Chavez
Chuck E Cheese


Two birds with one stone, honor someone and teach the keeeedz.

I quess they might have had to serve tacos and pizza but that wouldn't be hard.

 

[Rodolfo]

No. A stereotypical comment, but certainly not bigoted.

LOL! You called a group of people FREAKS.

 

[PapaG]

LOL! You called a group of people FREAKS.

No, I mentioned the FREAKS that hang out there. There are non-freaks there as well. Do you know what a freak is?

 

[ucatchtrout]

Lenghty editorial in the Oregonian today by a man who was Chavez lawyer for thirty years.

He said it would have pissed Chavez off to have spent money on this kind of thing.

All he wanted was attention to go to the farm workers and not himself. Turned down millions for the rights to his life story.

Apparently Chavez son was also consulted and he gave the idea a thumbs down saying the same thing.

The city caved in to a special interest group it was afraid to piss off and did so ignoring the interests and feelings of the other citizens of the city and those who own businesses and property on 39th

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

I bet the Asians who live on 39th don't even know who Cesar E. Chavez was!