Reflecting on Cesar Estrada Chavez lesson. Who is my personal hero?
I want to know more. Just like so many other instances during our time here, I find myself absolutely intrigued. I feel that if I am this intrigued - surely my students will be as well. I am amazed that the struggles and sacrifices made by Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers during this time. I felt extremely gratified when I saw the clip with Robert Kennedy reminding the Sheriff to go and read the Constitution during lunch. I could not believe that the Sheriff stated that “it looked like they were going to be causing trouble” and this was his explanation for arresting the strikers.
I was really very surprised that I was not able to think of a historic personality that I considered a hero. I think this is because of the tremendous sacrifice and the values that Cesar Chavez represents. Wonderfully, the only person that came to my mind certainly deserves to be compared to Cesar Chavez. This person is my mother, Karen Palmer. My mother sacrificed everything to raise me on her own. She was so young. With only a high school education. And you know what? I never knew we were poor. she was able to provide this wonderful colorful life full of so many activities and i never knew we were barely scraping by. The dance lessons, the junior theatre classes, the dinners - where she made something out of nothing - looking back, knowing now what I did not know then - I am utterly in awe of my mother.
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