Let's see: Honoring a person who dedicated his life to help make life better for poor disadvantaged workers that were abused by the moneyed interests.

Yes I can see how Jesus would be offended.

My facebook feed has been blowing up with this, everyone seems offended, but I live in the south and that's not terribly surprising.

Personally it is not offensive to me at all Cesar Chavez did great works and was a wonderful person but it seems surprising that so many are up on arms about this

The people who complain about the timing on Easter are almost certainly the same who would complain about any positive recognition for Chavez, no matter when it happened.

It states "it is unclear why the company chose specifically to honor Chavez’s birthday, instead of Easter Sunday."

That's easy. Google has only had a single Easter doodle (April 23, 2000). There's no tradition for that doodle, and there's no explanation for why Google is obligated to have a doodle for Easter every year.

I conclude that it's unclear simply because they wanted it to stay unclear, rather than do any sort of research. Like looking at the list of Google Doodles that Google has. Spreading outrage is a lot more fun than doing boring research.