Lost in the Supermarket - Habla Usted Espanol?

Hakuna Matata

Surrounded am I
walkin the isles of Aldi's
Surrounded am I
not a word can I understand
Surrounded am I

They are the law breakers
Yet family they are
The children well behaved
Husbands and wives well behaved
Avoid eye contact
With me

I am not supposed to notice
I am not supposed to care
I am not supposed to be able
To tell the difference
But I do

That's the new expectation
For Gringos
Like me

I'm supposed to be stupid
Or is it el stupido
That's what the situation
demands

Each week I find that I am
one of the few who speak English
I the entire Aldi's store

I don't see this at other stores just yet
But I'm waiting
It won't be long

But for now it appears to be a
phenomena

That's right
a phenomena

At the store with the cheapest prices
in town.

An Aldi's phenomena

Sort of a portent of things to come
For you well to do folk
who shop at Schnucks
and Cubs and wherever you West Side folk shop

Now I am a southern Californian?
I guess this is how they feel?
I am a minority
For I speak English

Listen folks
It's all a game
I have gotten all too used to it

I'll share with you
So you'll be forewarned when you see it
In your rich shopping centers
It is coming your way too you know

I am torn
They seem so nice
They are here to work
To start their version of the American Dream

I know I am supposed to assume they are legal
I am supposed to assume they simply know no English at all.
That they simply don't want to even look in my eyes.
I am supposed to assume they are very very very shy.
Very very very shy spanish only speaking people employed?
Somewhere here in town where only spanish speaking people only
Can be employed.
Perhaps the Secretary of State?

I am supposed to accept it
To keep quiet about my inner knowledge
I am the evil racist
At least by Illinois Times standards.

About my suspicions
About why they won't look me in the eyes
Damn it
Look
In
My
Eyes!

I am after all politically incorrect
I'm a white guy

I am the great white evil North American
And they the oppressed peoples of the South
Fleeing poverty for the land of opportunity

Willing to work for 5.35 per hour with a
Smile.

Even uttering such thoughts surely reveals me to be a racist
a bigot
a brute
who is totally
totally inconsiderate of the fact that
Texas
New Mexico
and Arizona
Was stolen
That's right
Damn it all to hell
Stolen from the people of Mexico!

I am so confused

Should I be concerned?

What has happened to the America I knew?
Does this make me an evil racist?
Or worse yet, a conservative?

Is this a great wrong?
A necessary evil?
Historic Karma?
An Invasion?
A conspiracy?
Or should I just accept the fact
That each week
I am surrounded by illegal aliens
From Mexico
When I shop?
Even here in Springfield, Illinois?

I see them at Aldi's
Their children make the mistake of looking me in the eyes
I quickly smile
They smile back
They know this game well
And so do mother and father

They are a beautiful people

I mean you no harm
I wish I could say

I could help you
I wish I could say

But if you're here illegally I can not
I simply can't condone it
No matter how bad things are back in Mexico

Still they are not evil
Still they mean no harm
Still they are the future of this land

The U.S.A. is soon to become a Latin American nation
It is inevitable as the melting of the poles.
And I must accept it

The ruling class of this nation demands cheap labor
The ruling class of this nation demand broken unions
The ruling class of this nation intends to destroy the middle class
In every and any way they can
Flooding the nation with illegals is a brilliant method to do this

If the tide of illegals threatened the rich you can be damned sure
They'd be rounded up in a heart beat
But they make great servants

Why else would I be surrounded by illegal aliens as I pick up the canned pineapple?
Why else would I be surrounded by illegals as I walk through the frozen goods?

This has all been approved
Arranged at the highest levels of government
The illegals know it
They know but we still deny it here
In the Midwest
But we won't be able to do so for long

The wave is building all across this land

The borders of this nation are thrown open
To anyone who simply walks in or drives in.
It's all been approved

And if three hundred million Americans rose up and said stop it now
It would still go on
Because the rich need their cheap labor

We must accept it

It is time for me to learn Espanol
It is time for all you Gringos to learn the future
Of this nation
Is not written in English

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