Lol. I was walking one of my job sites when I heard, "El es el jefe. El es un bandido perezoso de meirda gordo."
To which I responded, "Soy el jefe. Usted dice el ingles cuando usted habla de mi o usted puede conseguir la caca y quitarse mi jobsite. Capishe?"
One of them apologized and one said, "No Habla Italian!". I had to smile. A few days later, "El Gordo jefe hablas espanol!" was posted in a porta-potty.
I run into this type racism all the time in NM. Hispanics love to speak Spanish around White people and just assume that you can’t be “Anglo” and bi-lingual.
I always get a laugh out of their expressions when I say something to them in Spanish. They usually laugh and look shocked. I’ve even had some people try to correct my pronunciation!
If I treated them that way when they said “sheecken” instead of chicken or “chower” instead of shower I’d be the racist. Go figure.