Cesar Chavez

I have a solution, make the month of February a holiday and change it to Civil Rights Month.

Via CNS News

March 31 is Cesar Chavez Day. It’s an official state holiday in California, but it’s not a federal holiday — not yet. But the U.S. Civil Rights Commission wants to change that.

Chairman Martin Castro announced on Monday that the U.S. Civil Rights Commission has sent letters to President Obama and congressional leaders, urging them to create national holidays commemorating the births of Chavez on March 31; and Fred Korematsu on Jan. 30.

Korematsu was a Japanese-American who battled against the internment camps established after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

The letters ask the president issue an executive order declaring those two days national holidays in recognition of both men’s contribution to upholding civil rights and liberties for all U.S. citizens.

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is an independent, bipartisan agency charged with monitoring federal civil rights enforcement.

A month before the 2012 presidential election, President Obama went to California to establish a national monument honoring Cesar Chavez, the late Mexican-American leader of the United Farm Workers Union.

As CNSNews.com reported at the time, Chavez was a foe of open borders and led a 1969 march on the California-Mexico border to oppose illegal immigration.

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