“We respectfully ask you and your marketing campaign to cease utilizing the picture of our father to affiliate your self with him and recommend that the objectives of your marketing campaign are appropriate,” writes Fernando Chavez.
The letter comes a day earlier than Kennedy is about to host a marketing campaign occasion in Los Angeles on Cesar Chavez's birthday to launch a Latino outreach program. In selling the occasion, Kennedy known as Chavez buddy.
“Be a part of us for a day of meals, drink, Mexican tradition, voter registration help, and galvanizing remarks from RFK, Jr. and different particular friends,” the marketing campaign's web site introduced, with a photograph of the daddy of Kennedy and Chavez, the founding father of United Farm Employees. The activist's birthday can also be noticed as a California state vacation.
In an announcement, Kennedy attributed the criticism to “politics” and mentioned he has stood for the values of the Labor chief for a very long time.
“I’ve labored with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Employees on many points, occasions and campaigns for nearly 50 years,” he mentioned, including that Saturday was a day to “honor Cesar Chavez and his shut friendship with my father, my household and me and its influence on our nation.”
Kennedy's father famously supported the farmers' strike that Chavez led within the Nineteen Sixties and was current when Chavez broke his starvation strike.
Within the letter, Fernando Chavez says that the household stays grateful to the younger Kennedy for serving to to hold Chavez's casket after his dying in 1993, like different outstanding figures.
“To our information, none of them have introduced photographs carrying the casket of their political marketing campaign supplies and promotions,” writes Fernando Chavez. “We take offense at using such sacred moments purely for political functions.”
Earlier than becoming a member of the Biden marketing campaign, Chavez Rodriguez labored within the Obama and Biden White Homes. Biden additionally has a bust of Cesar Chavez within the Oval Workplace.
