MonicaSophia
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Native Tejana Chicana - American before the word was invented
Listening now to Dolores Huerta's first interview since the New York Times piece on Cesar Chavez's history of abuse, just published this morning on Latino USA. Huerta says early in the interview that she is devastated after learning about the extent of the abuse, and that it speaks to a lack of respect for women and girls in our society that still needs to be addressed. Huerta only recently learned of the abuse of teenage girls from New York Times reporters, who wrote that she broke down upon hearing the accounts. She credits the victims who first came forward with her own coming out. "I just want to say that I think the fact that the women, the survivors who had this happen to them as girls, that they have had the courage to come out — God knows, I really applaud them so much, because I think their courage has given me the courage also to be able to come out," Huerta says in the interview. "Because in many instances, they will want to blame the girls. Some people will try to blame me. But they don't realize that Cesar, I often refer to him as a genius, because he did so much in terms of inspiring leaders and leading the movement. But I don't think anybody knew that he would even do this," Huerta says. Listen to the full interview: latinousa.org/2026/03/19/dol…
New: Dolores Huerta writes lengthy statement following @nytimes investigation into Cesar Chavez. Huerta says she had sexual encounters with Chavez resulting in 2 children. “I have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farm worker movement…”
Dolores Huerta is the very best of us.
The key questions about the Cesar Chavez allegations are: Why are they only emerging now, many decades after the alleged events? Why did the accusers withhold this information until long after his legacy had been formally honored? What changed?
