JE #10

Show Guest: Rudy Robles, Ismael, Marcy, Mama Chona, Shark tooth/Concha

Speedy: Hola hola todos! Welcome to the Border and welcome to my show: Arriba Arriba. Todays theme is ‘Los Perdid@s de Nepantla en gringolandia’.  Vamos a chismiar de la vida viviendo con esos gringos. The First question ----

Marcy: Wait wait kueh es una gringah?

Speedy: Oh pues YOU Gringa hehe. Pues come deci the first question es de donde eres?

Marcy: I’ll go first. I am una American perrro I like all of you Mexicans.

Mama Chona: Who are you calling a Mexican?! I am Spanish! Mi familia viene de  España y toda mi familia es español.

Rudy: Hey old lady! Wait your turn! don’t interrupt the nice American lady.

Speedy: Epa Epa! Calmados! Ok so we have an American, una española y un Mexicano.

Rudy: Hey Hey! I am an American Citizen you mouse!

Sharks Tooth: I too am not Mexican. I am Opata from the Opata village. Those Mexicans came and took away my people from our village

Ismael: Hey! I am a Chicano.  A Mexican American. And you people need to learn history. This is why you people need to get educated and stop being so ignorant

Sharks Tooth: I know my history. The history of my people I would learn in the hu’uki’s of my village. History was told through stories and orally. I was educated through my family and the stories.

Mama Chona: Educated? Sharks Tooth isn’t even a real name! I agree with Ismael. That is something I always tell my Grandchildren, go to school. Learn English the right way! Not like me. They should never end up cleaning their own house like  those Mexicans.

Marcy: Mexicans clean houses? No my husband works for the department of Homeland Security because he want to protect our home from those people.

Rudy: He works for la migra? No not again!

Speedy: Arriba Arriba! Next Pregunta: Ahora quien eres?

Concha: I don’t know anymore. I lost myself when I left my village. My identity was taken away when I was given the name Concha. No one bothered to learn my real name or my story or where I came from. When I crossed that dessert and passed that border, I became just another part of the dessert.

Marty: Shell, why would you want to be part of that dirty dessert? This is America! You should be happy you are here! I am happy! We are living the dream people! Why are you all so dead? Like, this is it! Buy a house and be happy! I am happy living in my house in El Paso. Everyone is happy in El Paso.

Ismael: This is what I am talking about when I said you need to get educated. That border did not always exist. I lived in Ysleta so close to the Jaurez border and I had no idea until freshman year of College! The border makes people miserable because once you cross it, you need to act a certain way and talk a certain way or else they don’t like you and you must forget your roots.

Mama Chona: They like me. I never forget my roots. I am proud to be Spanish!

Concha: Without my village or people, I will never be the same. I am lost in these world of Mexicans in America.

Rudy: Yea man, these gringos are nice man. They give us jobs even in Mexico. I have a friend over there on the other side of the border and yea he can hook it up.

Speedy: Oye oye You know what? Chale! none of you know what you are talking about! Come dijiera Anzaldua, son Nepantleros Ustedes. Perdidos in the border. You can try to be like me, see. I travel from here to there but that’s cause I am fast. The fastes in all Mexico. Yiijaaa. Epa Epa! La Migra, si esos don’t see me. And if they do, well they like me! I am not like the other Mexicans. Ustedes, weelllll. Unos have cultural amnesia y los otros pues hole frijoles you look indian but nothing like me. Ya major me voy. Arriba Arriba Andaleeee….