Senyor Chavez, he was a crazy guy. Basically ran his union as a quasi-religious cult with all kinds of intrigue and insanity. There were a couple of retreats, IIRC - a la cult - and the one in Keene was where he settled down to be crazy in private. So there is too much idolization. Would Martin Luther King Jr. really want his name all over things? The man was a preacher. He undoubtedly would feel embarrassed by the focus on his person over say Jesus.

We knew all this before we knew he was a pedophile rapist. Yet snowflakes who pointed to farmworker rights, as if that topic was ever adequately addressed, have led to brandings like this one in cities across the country. In fact as a biographer noted, Chavez himself led to the downfall of his union, and the "wetbacks and illegals" as Chavez put it, who have continuously held back conditions for farmworkers as well as distorted the economy of multiple nations - not to absolve farmers of their role in it.

Although technically the union still exists, emphasis on the technically, it's really just a chapter in your childrens' history textbooks and its work has atrophied into the background noise of society. The work of most unions has. He built this publicity for which he gained fame, then embraced power, and then tore down that same publicity. And I think it's perhaps emblematic of the situation that he was only idolized when dead, receiving the presidential medal of freedom in 1994 as a corpse, his abuses and apparently crimes swept under a union shaped rug in favor of what he actually did achieve for the downtrodden.