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Labor Day Diversity: When the Farm Worker and Civil Rights Movements Merges

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Critical Race Theory? What’s that? Don’t be fooled by the mumbo jumbo of critics who would deny the truth in classrooms. CRT has been around for decades and is a legit thing—a way of looking at history through the legal lens of social justice.

But now it’s bandied about as some evil, anti-American indoctrination tool. It most assuredly is not that.

The effect of the rise in CRT, however, has been to make it much harder for stories in American history to come forward and be more widely known.

For example, this Labor Day Week, should we assume this is the time to honor Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers for  the Great Delano Grape strike in 1965? Emil GuillermoEmil Guillermo

Sure. But most people start and stop with Chavez and only pay homage to the Mexican American labor leader.

They forget that the actual instigator of the strike was an Asian American Filipino by the name of Larry Itliong.

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