Dolores Huerta: Obama can NOT use "Yes we can"
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Who can say 'Si Se Puede'?
Dolores Huerta says that Obama does not he have the right to use that phrase, but granddaughter to Cesar Chávez thinks the contrary.
HOUSTON, Texas.— ¿Who has the right to use the "Si se puede"?
It is a famous phrase of fight, created by the leadership of the Union of Peasants in the sixties and since then has been utilized by numerous politicians and activist, mainly latin Americans, like a shout of battle.
A few months ago, the campaign of Barack Obama for the presidency has come using the "Si se puede" in Spanish and also in English: "Yes we can".
And the creator of the phrase does not like that one bit, Dolores Huerta, the cofounder of the UFW and a legendary activist.
Yesterday, on campaign for Hillary Clinton in Texas, Huerta questioned Obama by using the famous phrase of fight, that she invented 40 years ago.
"Obama is an opportunist", Huerta told La Opinion..
She interviewed during a march of "women by Hillary" in the center of Houston yesterday afternoon, Huerta said that personally she questioned the fact that Obama utilized the phrase.
"How can he use that phrase that has so much meaning, when he did not give a drop for this fight for us immigrants? He did not win the right to deserve to use this phrase", Huerta said.
Exactly some days ago during the day, in a crowded event in Fort Worth and in other rallies along Texas, Obama has utilized the "Si se puede" in Spanish in repeated occasions.
A famous video, of a composed song by the producer of the group Black Eyed Peas, Will. i. am, uses as a refrain the phrase "Yes we can", of a speech around the theme given by Barack Obama in New Hampshire in January..
The video has become in a few weeks in one of the most popular videos of internet, and has been seen by millions of people.
But Huerta thinks that Obama should not use the "Si se puede".
"He hasn't joined with the Latin Americans and now he wants that community to vote for him, and is using that phrase. I was native of that phrase and this represents many things, the sacrifice of the peasants, the martyrs that we had in our union (of peasants), people struck and imprisoned", Huerta said.
Huerta is uncomfortable with Obama, a senator of Illinois, because he "never went to visit to Elvira Arellano when she was in sanctuary", he never helped in the liberation of a Mexican youth, that was accused unjustly of homicide in El Paso.
In general, Huerta said, Obama, has not been there in the fights of for immigrants.
