Adios To All Things Mexican
By James T. Moore (04/19/07)
I'll never forget it. When I was a young Chicago nipper visiting my Uncle Jim, and Aunt Evelyn in San Clemente, California something happened that has stayed vivid in my memory for decades. Showing me the sights, they took me across the border into Tiajuana and treated me to an authentic Mexican dinner. I don't remember what they called those Mexican "sides" except that it was multi-colored mixtures of the hottest, most palate-grinding food I ever put in my mouth. Needless to say, I got ungodly sick and began to... well, I won't share that with you.
That first “taste” of Mexico set the stage in my mind for taking Mexico forever off my vacation itineraries. Accurate or not, it forged in my mind a picture of Mexico as a place too dirty to live, food too hot to eat, a language too inconsequential to learn, a population too suspicious of gringos (me), and at the basis of it all, too consumed with the Atzlan movement: a Mexican plan to take back America’s southwestern states, which we bought from Mexico in the mid-1800’s, but which Mexicans still think they own. Hence, Mexico’s “invasion”of the USA.
But I’m not writing this to tell you about the army of Mexicans illegally crossing the border into the U.S. every day, or about the 20-million Illegal aliens already entrenched in America, or how this portends the making of America a a whole “different” nation. You already know all that. No, what I’m writing to tell you is that if you love this country and want to keep it a sovereign nation, we each have to do our part—and do it now---to force this administration to see Mexico for what it really is.
How do we each do our part? Let your talents lead you. Mine is music. We can’t get rid of sombreros and ponchos and tequilas, but we can certainly do something about the music. So without further ado THIS is my "Adios To All Things Mexican” plan.” I propose to take all those colorful and seductive songs we sing about Mexico and rewrite the lyrics of each tune about Mexico, taking the phony “beauty” and “enchantment” out of them. THAT should tell our citizens the truth about Mexicans, and how they are overrunning us.
For example, one old-time favorite song about Mexico is Mexicali Rose, so that’s as good a place as any to begin. Here are the lyrics to Mexicali Rose, that we sing with passion, fervor, and sometimes even with moist eyes.
Mexicali Rose, stop crying, I’ll come back to you some sunny day.
Every night you know that I’ll be pining, every hour a year while you’re away.
Dry those big brown eyes and smile dear, banish all those tears and please don’t cry,
Kiss me once again and hold me, Mexicali Rose, goodbye.
Lovely song, isn’t it? But in view of the realities of Mexico; its hordes of illegals sneaking into our country; our false impression of Mexico as a cooperative and friendly neighbor; Mexico’s hidden hatred of America for allegedly confiscating a part of their land; and for their sly effort to inundate our nation, thus systematically converting America from the world’s greatest nation into just another “third world” slumsville, I humbly submit my contribution to the expose’ of Mexico’s overrated Latino image.
Here is my revised version of the song Mexicali Rose:
Mexicali Rose, we made it. got across the border yesterday.
We’ll do well on their guest worker program, goodbye, Mexico, we’re here to stay
In the u.s. we’ll get food stamps, no-cost health care for our family tree
Being pregnant, now that we’re here, you can have our baby.. free.
A rewrite of other “Mexican” songs is in the works: South of the Border, It Happened in Old Monterey, and others. Will this induce Americans to force Mexicans back over the border where they belong? Probably not. But every little push helps.
Stay tuned.
James T. Moore
http://jamestmoore.us/
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