Google Defends Decision to Honor Cesar Chavez on Easter with Doogle Daniel S Levine - TheCelebrityCafe.com
go to original April 4, 2013

Google changed its logo Sunday to celebrate the life and efforts of late Mexican-American leader Cesar Chavez, instead of recognizing Easter. (NewsyTech)

Google’s decision to honor Latino civil rights icon Cesar Chavez on his birthday Sunday instead of Easter was the target of criticism, forcing Google to defend its decision.

For Sunday’s Google Doodle, the search engine giant used a simple version of the logo with a Chavez portrait replacing the second ‘o.’ Sunday, March 31 would have been Chavez’s birthday. As The Daily Caller notes, Chavez was the founder of the United Farm Workers union and died in 1993. President Obama declared March 31 Cesar Chavez Day in 2011.

The Mercury News notes that the doodle was quickly met with backlash on the web. "I thought the Chavez-google thing was a hoax or an early April Fool's Day prank ... are they just going to leave that up there all day?" Fox News Contributor Dana Perino tweeted.

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