Cingular Pulls "Racist" Ringtone (Peggy Hill strikes again!!!)

[CatWoman]

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

The Atlanta-based cell 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.

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, "This is la Migra," a slang term for the 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.

Hispanic activists called the product racist.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/9189019/detail.html

[Fenris]

1. ROFL. That *does* sound like the broken Spanish of Peggy Hill.

"Scoozie may poor favor..." :D

[CatWoman]

2. oh yeah!!!!

[AspenRose]

3. .

:rofl: :spray:

[Javaman]

11. I loved the episode where she's on trial for drug trafficing in Mexico. nt

[MADem]

4. Which is quite close to the taco y cerveza spanglish of the chimp! nt

[CatWoman]

5. well,

I "almost" used his name in my headline - something along the lines of his fluency in "Texish" :D

[ComerPerro]

12. el vomito???

[Fenris]

14. la diarrhea???

:D

[ComerPerro]

15. That was a great episode

[BlooInBloo]

6. It seems clearly racist to me, or some other "ist" that we don't...

... have a slick word for...

Does it not seem so to you CatWoman?

[CatWoman]

7. oh, most definitely

it's clearly racist.

I'm wondering what moran thought that ring tone would be a good idea?

[BlooInBloo]

8. O - ok - you just had it in quotes....

And your question, as you indicated with "moran", is self-answering - LOL

[CatWoman]

9. well

that's the original headline that ran with the story.

check the link.

[BlooInBloo]

10. Coolness - thx!

[WCGreen]

13. There is only one race....

The Human Race....

If anything, the comments are ethnisist.....