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Did Dolores Huerta hijack Cal State Bakersfield’s graduation? That’s what several Letter to the Editor writers, a You Tube video poster and a friend and of a friend of mine are saying about the farmworker advocate’s commencement speech Saturday. They’re complaining she was waaaay too political. A You Tube video of the speech shows she argued that minimum wage should be $25 an hour, that there should be marriage equality (for gays), that farmworkers should get better medical coverage and pay and that millionaires shouldn't be getting government bailout money. She urged people to get their news from places other than Rush Limbaugh, such as from the New York Times, The Nation, Mother Jones and The Progressive. The crowd booed at Huerta when she spoke of union issues and laughed at her when she addressed white supremacists. “We can say to those people like the KKK...’Get over it. You’re Africans, right? Get over it. We are all Africans of...
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