Good morning everyone. Hope yall have your cup of hot Joe and up and ready. Have another full day so I wont be on. Last night I was fortunate to attend the Preview showing of the new movie Cesar Chavez and did it bring back old memories. As a child I can remember the bitter cold and hot summer days when my Dad took us all to pick vegetables. My Dad was medically Retired from the Santa Fe Railroad and was unable to work and having 12 members in the family he had to do his best and I can say that we always had food on te table. One incident similar to what happened in the movie was when we had picked tomoatoes from early morning and it was around noon when the owner appeared and my Dad asked when he and the othesr would get paid and something the owner said outraged my Dad and those around him. My Dad asked what he was paying but being a small kid I had no clue related to money-all I remember is that Dad garnered all the field hands and they started chanting something about pay. The owner became irate and told everyone if they continued he would call the Police and have us all arrested. My Dad really blew his top and the stack of tomatoes that were close by he toppled them and the crowd cheered. Not too long afterwards the cops arrived and my Dad was arrested and was taken away. The other many field hands also dumped the boxes and they all left the fields. As they left the cops set up a position next to a Stop Sign and allowed the workers to run it but AFTER they did, the cops pulled them all over and cited them for running a posted stop sign. To this day I can hear the owner calling Dad a Wetback and some other unkind words and as they took my Dad away I was crying and yelling to leave him alone. There were several people outside of the viewing room and one asked me what I had thought of the movie and related what I just mentioned and she couldnt believe what I was saying and was amazed just how close the movie came to what Cesar Chavez and the Migrant workers went through. Life as a young boy was not an easy one for we had to work the fields for little and next to nothing just to survive. These lessons learned proved to be beneficial as we learned to appreciate that we must work to earn something and that what we do earn is ours.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:25:02 +0000
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