Ailsa Chang
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Maria joins us now.
Hi, Maria.
Hey, how you doing?
Good.
I want to talk about this incredibly difficult interview you had with Huerta this week.
I know that you have interviewed her before.
How did she sound to you this week?
Was it just so fundamentally different in this new set of facts?
It was profoundly different.
An abuser of girls.
It sounded like Dolores did not know that.
There was one moment that especially burned into me when I listened.
You asked about why she chose for decades not to come forward with her story of Chavez's abuse and her choice to support him in spite of it.
And I want to play that part of her answer.
I mean, I found that heartbreaking.
She said her silence was worth it.
It was her cross to bear, a cross that she bore alone.
The rape is the lesser evil to reckon with.
Not only did Dolores Huerta not tell the public about what had happened to her, she never confronted Cesar Chavez.
And you asked her about that.