Cesar Chavez California Commonwealth Club Address Paragraph 20-29
Migrant Child Farm Workers
Hey you kid reading, yeah you, having a good day? Have you eaten or slept well? Well imagine working on a dirty farm, not even getting paid 50 dollars a week, in the California Common Wealth Club Address a well known figure for Mexican-Americans named Cesar Chavez, talks about the harsh life a working child had. Thought most of the 1960’s till the 1980’s children born from migrant farm working mothers were born into extreme poverty which led to horrible living conditions. Children had to work over 10 hours a day not only for them but also to help for their parents have a better life.
As the Chicano leader stated in his marvelous speech "Malnutrition among migrant workers' children is 10 times higher than the national rate.” this isn't fair. They should be able to have a childhood like every other Anglo or Non- Anglo kid. They shouldn't have to walk miles to buy food at ridiculously high prices and then carry nasty water from irrigation ditches to give their family. Chicano farm workers lived in horrible conditions, they lived in old shacks, under trees or in places near sewers they had vicious rats gnaw at them as they sleep. In Chavez’s speech he stated his own experience and how he felt rage, and was sad at the same time, those feelings gave him the guts to make a change for his country, but children still had to experience what he felt because he couldn’t change racial discrimination just by talking. He had to make speeches, make boycotts, strikes, and gather support from blacks and others who have felt what he has felt.
Migrant child farm workers were practically born to die. I say that in that way because children were exposed to many malicious diseases or infections. The growers made them grow fruits and vegetables with a certain fertilizer which contained poison, and since the farm workers had nothing to eat they had to eat that. Cesar states that the “Health authorities in many San Joaquin Valley towns already warn
Hey you kid reading, yeah you, having a good day? Have you eaten or slept well? Well imagine working on a dirty farm, not even getting paid 50 dollars a week, in the California Common Wealth Club Address a well known figure for Mexican-Americans named Cesar Chavez, talks about the harsh life a working child had. Thought most of the 1960’s till the 1980’s children born from migrant farm working mothers were born into extreme poverty which led to horrible living conditions. Children had to work over 10 hours a day not only for them but also to help for their parents have a better life.
As the Chicano leader stated in his marvelous speech "Malnutrition among migrant workers' children is 10 times higher than the national rate.” this isn't fair. They should be able to have a childhood like every other Anglo or Non- Anglo kid. They shouldn't have to walk miles to buy food at ridiculously high prices and then carry nasty water from irrigation ditches to give their family. Chicano farm workers lived in horrible conditions, they lived in old shacks, under trees or in places near sewers they had vicious rats gnaw at them as they sleep. In Chavez’s speech he stated his own experience and how he felt rage, and was sad at the same time, those feelings gave him the guts to make a change for his country, but children still had to experience what he felt because he couldn’t change racial discrimination just by talking. He had to make speeches, make boycotts, strikes, and gather support from blacks and others who have felt what he has felt.
Migrant child farm workers were practically born to die. I say that in that way because children were exposed to many malicious diseases or infections. The growers made them grow fruits and vegetables with a certain fertilizer which contained poison, and since the farm workers had nothing to eat they had to eat that. Cesar states that the “Health authorities in many San Joaquin Valley towns already warn