TrevorLouden
When President Barack Obama recently paid tribute to the late United Farm Workers union leader Richard Chavez, he was in effect, saluting his own roots.
Richard Chavez, brother of U.F.W. founder Cesar Chavez, died July 27 aged 81, in Bakersfield, California.
“Richard fought for basic labor rights but also worked to improve the quality of life for countless farm workers,” said Obama in a statement . “And beyond his work, Richard was a family man.”
Obama added, “Richard understood that the struggle for a more perfect union and a better life for all America’s workers didn’t end with any particular victory or defeat, but instead required a commitment to getting up every single day to keep at it.”
Richard Chavez was connected to several strands of the movement that would eventually put their finest son, Barack Obama, into the White House.
He was, for over 40 years, the partner of a U.F.W. founder and long time Democratic Socialists of America Honorary Chair Dolores Huerta. Obama himself has enjoyed almost a thirty year relationship with D.S.A., the U.S.’s largest Marxist organization.

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