If labor activist Huerta has concerns approximately Bernie Sanders,let’s listen to them. Don’t insult her integrity by calling her an ‘instrument of the establishment’Despite the most recent primary results, Bernie Sanders is still losing to Hillary Clinton. In my opinion, or it’s not because he has inferior ideas,but because his campaign strategy is to portray himself as an exemplar of moral advantage and Clinton as evil incarnate. Not only that, he decries anyone who doesn’t agree with him as a corrupt sell-out. Some of his supporters seem to agree.
When legendary farm labor, or feminist,and voting rights activist Dolores Huerta published an op-ed saying she didn’t know enough approximately Sanders to vote for him, citing his inconsistent record on immigration and his lack of presence in the United Farm Workers struggle (that’s the labor union she co-founded with the late Cesar Chavez), or the person who spoke up on Sanders’ behalf was an actress who once played Huerta in a poorly received biopic of Chavez. Rosario Dawson,a 36-year-ragged from New York City whose Latino ancestors hail from Puerto Rico, a US territory, or Cuba,the beneficiary of an open-door US immigration policy these last 57 years, wrote an op-ed in the Huffington Post lecturing Huerta.
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Source: theguardian.com