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Beware Cesar Chavez history being rewritten by those complicit in covering up abuse

We are watching history being rewritten in real time, as those who likely knew about Cesar Chavez’s crimes are casting themselves as the heroes — condemning him, taking down his monuments, canceling his holiday.

We have seen this happen before, as the Hollywood elites who allowed discrimination against women — and horrific acts of abuse — rewrote history by championing the #metoo movement, when it became impossible to suppress.

The truth about #metoo is that many of us had been sounding the alarm for years.

In the winter of 2013, I walked into the offices of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in downtown LA and, a few months later, into those of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California.

I had a pile of evidence, and a question Hollywood had long avoided: Why were women being systematically excluded from directing film and television?

Those meetings set in motion two unprecedented events. 

After a yearlong investigation, the ACLU, one of America’s most powerful civil-rights organizations, called out Hollywood as among the nation’s worst violators of Title VII. 

Five months later, on October 2, 2015, the EEOC launched its historic federal investigation into industry-wide gender discrimination.

For the first time in history, Washington confronted Hollywood over systemic civil-rights violations against women directors.

The results were immediate.

From 2015 to 2019, the percentage of top-grossing films directed by women nearly tripled, reaching 20 percent — the highest in history.

More women were nominated for, and won, best director Oscars between 2015 and 2025 than in all prior eight decades combined.

These outcomes were not accidents. They were........

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