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May 9, 2006, 10:47PM
Cell phone firm hangs up on ringtone deemed racist
After a Texas paper's inquiry, Cingular pulls it from the Web site

Associated Press

BROWNSVILLE - Cingular Wireless pulled a ringtone from its Web site Tuesday after learning that it carried a message the company called "blatantly offensive."

The cellular phone company became aware of the ringtone, which uses mixed English and Spanish and threatens deportation, after an inquiry from a reporter for the Brownsville Herald.

Editor Rachel Benavidez said Tuesday that she heard the ringtone over the weekend when a friend visited the Cingular site. The newspaper then played the ringtone for Cingular officials.

The newspaper reported in its online edition Tuesday that the ringtone started with a siren, followed by a male voice saying in a Southern drawl, "Calmate, calmate, this is la Migra," slang for Border Patrol.

"Por favor, put the oranges down and step away from the cell phone. I repeat-o, put the oranges down and step away from the telephone-o. I'm deporting you back home-o," the voice continued.

"Oh my goodness, oh my goodness," Cingular spokesman Mark Siegel said after the $2.49 ringtone was played for him.

'Blatantly offensive'
Hispanic activists called the product racist.

"It's horribly offensive and a disgusting thing," Brent Wilkes, national executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, told the newspaper.

Siegel said the company removed the ringtone, among thousands available for downloading from its Web site, Tuesday afternoon.

"Needless to say, we deeply regret and apologize for it ever being there in the first place. The ringtone is blatantly offensive," he said.

The ringtone became available between late February or early March and was downloaded eight times, Siegel said. It was developed by Barrio Mobile, Siegel said. Barrio Mobile is a brand owned by Lagardere Active North American, the U.S. division of a French media company.

Cingular officials are reviewing the process used to screen ringtones, which are developed by several other companies, Siegel said.

"We are using this as an occasion to tighten our process even further so something like this doesn't happen again," he said.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3852671.html


 
Posted : 10/05/2006 5:37 pm
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Who says that we don't have censorship in America ?


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Posted : 10/05/2006 6:38 pm
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"It's horribly offensive and a disgusting thing,"

It sure is! Unlike this very pleasant image:

Cingular's profits would no doubt suffer if fine, upstanding Amerikwans like this were offended by one of its ringtones.


 
Posted : 11/05/2006 12:01 am
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"[color="DarkOrchid"]Oh my goodness, oh my goodness," Cingular spokesman Mark [color="Red"]Siegel said after the $2.49 ringtone was played for him.

What are the odds Siegel is a gay jew ?


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Posted : 11/05/2006 2:50 pm
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99%+ of White men are worthless morons who deserve to die. They can not cope with reality outside of a kindergarten, and simply get raped, robbed and murdered by kike filth the minute they step outside.

This is the only conclusion that I can draw from silly stories like this. I find it deeply humiliating that my race and nation are reduced to this level. I would rather die than be degraded like this. What a disgusting society. I am beyond anger and outrage now. This is what happens when one removes natural selection from the population, a few generations down the line one is swamped with these degenerates who get farmed by Jews. What good is one man when the Jews and corrupt Capitalists can herd 10,000 degenerate idiots who accept this behavior against us?


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Such a strange vibration,
People in motion.
There's a whole generation,
With a new explanation,
People in motion, people in motion!

For those who come to San Francisco,
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair,
And if you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there.

 
Posted : 11/05/2006 3:03 pm
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99%+ of White men are worthless morons who deserve to die. They can not cope with reality outside of a kindergarten, and simply get raped, robbed and murdered by kike filth the minute they step outside.

That is a gross exaggeration ! There are a lot of 'nothing' whites , but not that many .


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Posted : 11/05/2006 9:53 pm
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http://gearlog.com/blogs/gearlog/archive/2006/05/11/11497.aspx

posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 5:19 PM

Exclusive: Interview With Cingular "Migra" Ringtone Creator

Paul Saucido has made his career with edgy, ethnic comedy celebrating his Mexican-American heritage. So he was pretty amazed when a ringtone he developed for Barrio Mobile was called racist and yanked from Cingular's deck earlier this week.

The ringtone, "La Migra Alert," is Saucido pretending to be an immigration official with a really bad fake Southern accent, saying, "I'm deporting you back home-o." (Barrio Mobile sent me the ringtone, but said I couldn't publish it.)

The character came from a brainstorming session between him and a few other Latino comedians, Saucido said, citing Dave Chapelle and Carlos Mencia among his comedic influences.

"It was inspired by other comedians who riff on the same stereotype of the immigration officer ... you know how people try to phonetically speak when they talk down to you, like, 'where is the bathroom-o?'" he said.

The ringtone came as part of a package of comic ringtone characters developed by Saucido, including a hovering, novela-obsessed Mexican mom, a Mexican dad, and a "barrio kid" who would say "I can't make it to the phone right now, I'm busy rotating the tires on my low-rider." All of Saucido's ringtones have been removed by Cingular, he says.

"I think because of the times, right now people are a little extra sensitive [about immigration issues,]" he said. "I'm sensitive to this issue! But people obviously leave their senses of humor behind when they get so much fever in them. I thought the Migra character was the last character that would get that kind of reaction."

Saucido says there's "absolutely" room for edgy comedy in the ringtone world.

"I've played it for all my friends and they love them - they're waiting for them to be sold, and they're like, where can we buy them?" he said. "These companies have got to have some backbone to say we bought this content, we believe in it, and we're not going to get rid of it just because the first advocacy group calls racism. Dude, everyone that produced them and worked for them - we're all Mexican!"


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Posted : 12/05/2006 2:01 am
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That is a gross exaggeration ! There are a lot of 'nothing' whites , but not that many .

I dont use that figure lightly, I know a lot of white guys who are semi-openly racist, but they will not take original action. It is just not in their personality to do it, they just can not do it. That comes down to the same thing as not being racist in the end.


All across the nation,
Such a strange vibration,
People in motion.
There's a whole generation,
With a new explanation,
People in motion, people in motion!

For those who come to San Francisco,
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair,
And if you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there.

 
Posted : 12/05/2006 3:37 am
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