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Biden Decorates Oval Office with Tributes to Leader of Violent Anti-Immigrant Nativist Militia and to the Redliner-In-Chief

... Biden puts up a bust of an anti-immigration campaigner, who led a march at the border to shut it down to keep out Mexicans, and who organized a militia to beat up undocumented workers: César Chávez.

Chávez's extensive anti-immigrant actions (Mexicans were imported as scabs to break his United Farm Workers strikes, so he put his brother in charge of the UFW goon squad that beat up immigrants) have been memoryholed, partly because he wasn’t white and therefore must be Good and partly because nobody really cares about Latinos so nobody except ancient fogeys like Joe can remember Chávez.

But everybody still remembers FDR: for redlining, for interning the Japanese, for not stopping the Holocaust, etc. For the other stuff that Biden remembers FDR for, not so much. (read more)

Editor's Note: César Chávez’s United Farm Worker goons used chains and barbed wire to beat illegal aliens crossing into California.

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