Cingular drops "La Migra" ringtone
By Marc Perton 
posted May 11th 2006 5:06PM
posted May 11th 2006 5:06PM
Cingular Wireless has pulled a ringtone that mocks Latin American immigrants from its site, after being contacted by an advocate from a group called the League of United Latin American Citizens. The $2.49 ringtone, called "La Migra," ridiculed Latinos, with wording such as "Step away from the telephone-o. I'm deporting you back home-o." According to reports, a Cingular exec was "nearly speechless" after listening to the ringtone.Update: Thanks to Sascha Segan for pointing out that the ringtone was actually a bit of satire put together by Latino comedian Paul Saucido. You can catch Sascha's interview with Saucido here.
Sounds funny to me.
How about one that says...Anyone for CRACKERS??? CRACKERS...ANYONE???
I think it was made by a Latino comedian.
I guess you missed who wrote that ringtone!
http://www.vblast.net/barriomobile_spanish/
That not the only thing Cingular is dropping. Seem they are screwing the OGO users out of service. 3 days and we cannot recieve or send any emails to our pagers. Laugh all you want but there are a lot of people out there who don't give a damn for voice plans and the OGO was the perfect tool for that.
Seriously, where can I download this???
I've been on top of this story like sauce on an enchilada. Look here for my interview with Paul Saucido, the Latino comedian who wrote the satirical ringtone.
http://gearlog.com/blogs/gearlog/archive/2006/05/11/11497.aspx
Here's my original story on how Cingular, apparently, can't take an (ethnic) joke:
http://gearlog.com/blogs/gearlog/archive/2006/05/10/11462.aspx
I read that even though this ringtone has been available for several months, it has only been downloaded 8 times. It is easy to be disavow yourself from a product that is wildly unsuccesful. Though I am sure they would have done the same thing if it had sold a million times.
Am I a hypocrite to say that I take offense to these idiotic harebrained individual's who dedicate their lives to creating ridiculous organizations that nit pick at everything they find wrong with today's society?
Am I a bigot for wanting to start my own organization that targets these "league's" with the intent to forcefully impose my opinion down their throat with threats of law suits simply because I am offended by their most comical claims to offensiveness?
It's sickening to think that greed is probably the sole motivator for Cingular to remove this ringtone from their website. "Hey, if we remove this comical ringtone created by a comedian in the latino community then everybody wins! No offended latinos, we look good for listening, we get the business of easily offended latinos and nobody else gives a hoot except those 8 people who downloaded that ringtone!"
I'll tell you what, I'm going to boycott cingular from this moment on because they've just publicly proven to be a large spineless corporate entity easily manipulated by a very small group of offended people, all in the name of greed. Who's with me?
that's all good and well but...i agree with #6...
WHERE THE HELL CAN I GET THIS RINGTONE! it's a MUST HAVE!!!
Where can I buy this? I think it shoulde be available from an independent service is Cingular is too politically correct
Hey all, Paul here, if you want an mp3 of LA MIGRA, give me an email...saucido@gmail.com, yours...
Paul