...beat you with a "Tickle Me, Elmo" doll GH......
Come back Paraguay....*snif....soy lastima, chica-Te Amo!!

I was gonna jump all over the comment that Cash wrote this song, but apparently it's already been done, and is an old comment. but just for clarification:

Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor) written in 1994. Released on Downward Spiral.
Johnny Cash covered in 2002. Released on American IV: The Man Comes Around.

Reznor is most definitely the author of this song, and Cash is not the first to cover it either.

Tori Amos frequently sang three or four lines of the song as an introduction to other songs during her Dew Drop Inn tour in 1996, most frequently "Caught a Lite Sneeze", and then again in 1998, as an improvisational bridge.
Breaking Benjamin
Sheryl Crow covered the Cash version on the television special Tribute to Johnny Cash.
Fightstar
Matthew Good, acoustic tour 2006.
Gregorian arranged the lyrics into a medieval Gregorian chant.
Kermit the Frog is featured in an unauthorized parody called "Sad Kermit".
Aaron Lewis of Staind covered the song during his 2007 Have Guitar, Will Travel solo acoustic tour.
Luna Amara
Jeff Martin
Montezuma's Revenge
Placebo, at the House of Blues in California in 2003.
Damien Rice, by inserting lyrics from the song into his live performances.
Underoath played it acoustic live
Sevendust did a cover as a tribute to Johnny Cash.
Howard Stern had his own version for his show, called "Private Hurt". He played the song while mixing in sound clips from his film Private Parts.
Westside Connection sampled the main riff for their song "The Gangsta The Killa and The Dope Dealer".

Music is "The Champions" by Era

http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=2NoI57NVGCF&aid=HgpnLGGtJQ

Lyrics:
O cari me mi amo
In morento impera
Cora me sentori
In movante ora
O cari me mi amo
In morento ave
O pero menti o
In peri menti ora

O peri menti o
In peri menta ora

Do you know what you are?
You are what you is
You is what you am
(A cow don't make ham...)
You ain't what you're not
So see what you got
You are what you is
An' that's all it 'tis

A foolish young man
From a middle class fam'ly
Started singin' the blues
'Cause he thought it was manly
Now he talks like the Kingfish
("Saffiiiee!")
From Amos 'n Andy
("Holy mack'l dere...Holy mack'l
dere!")
He tells you that chitlins...
Well, they taste just like candy
He thinks that he's got
De whole thang down
From the Nivea Lotion
To de Royal Crown

Do you know what you are?
You are what you is
You is what you am
(A cow don't make ham...)
You ain't what you're not
So see what you got
You are what you is
An' that's all it 'tis

A foolish young man
Of the Negro Persuasion
Devoted his life
To become a caucasian
He stopped eating pork
He stopped eating greens
He traded his dashiki
("UHURU!")
For some Jordache Jeans
He learned to play golf
An' he got a good score
Now he says to himself
("I ain't no nigger no more...HEY! HEY! HEY!"

No problem, welcome to the sift! This is a really good submission, I enjoyed it.

In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
Thank you for your vote on my very first submission (Pavarotti:" Non t'amo piu" by Tosti), and I am only 1 more vote away from making it out of the queue. Yayyyy!

Just wanted to thank you for your vote on my submission, ("Pavarotti: "Non t'amo piu" by Tosti) and as of now, I just need ONE more vote to make it! Wish me luck...

Thank you for your vote on my first submission (Pavarotti: "Non t'amo piu"). I'm hoping it will make its way out of the queue. I am hopeful even though thus far I have 4 votes! )

It's because he's Mr. Cellophane

cellophane
Mister cellophane
Should have been my name !!!!
Mister cellophane
'cause you can look right through me
Walk right by me
And never know I'm there!

I tell ya
cellophane
Mister cellophane
Should have been my name
Mister cellophane
'cause you can look right through me walk right by me
And never know I'm there...

Love this tune - also love the Tori Amos cover!

-Correct-rsp to swampgirl q. #1
Another dynamic to consider, which I took into consideration when watching this before posting, was the reaction I had watching at 42 years , compared to the one I had at 10, quite different. No doubt others have seen this while their sensbilities we less than developed, hopefully. Do these, "don't hurt feeeeelings" guidelines as stated,

(Please do not post videos that MAKE FUN of other races. Because of the high volume of traffic on the site, it would be very easy to offend a good deal of people with material like this. If you think the material is questionable, it's probably not going to pass our standards.)

cover every possible "reaction"- Offence, is subjective. My sensibilities are offended by morons making fun of or supporting the plight of the weak, whether they be brainwashed zealots from the Middle East or Fundie-B-belt Bar-B-Quers. Bleeding hearts go out to all associated with the former, and slings and arrows to the latter.....Just-Us is served, while the fundamental issue of propaganda destroying souls, remains to be dealt with.


Paul Mooney is my favorite comedian, not because he offends white folks with his flagrant ab-use of the word nigger, but because he has no qualms about offending anyone, blacks included, because he knows he is right. He is intelligent, afro-centric, but not blindly so. He comes down on blacks the hardest, and is a funny ass motherfucker doing it! I have no doubts as to my own unprejudiced view of humanity....Stupid is universal, and that is the only offence I take, when it comes to a paticular race. So if the intent of the poster makes a shit-lick of difference to any of this blog, so be it or not.
I will be offended at the didactic adhesion to a stated rule, over the intent being the final say(if in fact that rule applies here), but not for this cartoon leaving....You can have media content like this here, and Amos and Andy, and Stepn' fetch it, but it's up to the people of the sift to either vote it up or not, and then talk about it in the queue, before letting it stew in here, to be nit-picked.

In light of the recent disappearance of several Looney Toons clips due to their being pulled by their keepers, it would be just dandy if this gets pulled here, due to a more insidious creature, even moreso than the great mammon herself!!! The name which can'not be spoken.....
Imbecillicus-Unilateralus-Subjecticus.....A creature, who, whether they know it or not, limits, restricts, or otherwise deals with an issue passive-aggressively, in order to appease, not the sensibilities of the subject of the offence, but their own, weakened form of action-reaction, emotionalism and personal, mental dis-array.

That was my point basically with the Chappelle/Borat rant. I'm sure if one spent all day here searching, one would find tons more. (edit: looks like I have already )
Usually, I would have simply read this thread without participating, but something Joedirt said changed my mind:

"I will start to post every black-face clip, Amos and Andy, and other "historical" documentation of the early 20th C. "

That would be unnecessary JD, and counterproductive ...we have so many examples already here. Let's just have a look at the content we have already voted on and *accepted.

Well...that's if you agree that the examples I gave are racist. (which I don't since the racism/race related content is parody)

If it was a documentary, or discussion of attitudes in any way.. well, that would be different. But given your policy statement (which makes sense), the offensive nature (regardless of historical context), and this quote "Some feel that this cartoon is so offensive to African-Americans that it should be consigned to the censor's vault for all eternity, lest any showing of it at all spark an outpouring of anger, shame, and outrage among blacks and indeed, all who rightfully seek to eradicate racism from our society."

I tend to agree with that quote and don't forget there are many people who still hold these views and stereotypes.

I will start to post every black-face clip, Amos and Andy, and other "historical" documentation of the early 20th C.

man dig anything robert johnson, but critic tha I am, as much as John Hammond Jr. is mediocre cool, he's like the cracker equiv, of Louis Armstrong-style uncle-tommin'!He da Vanilla Ice of Blues....


Reminds me of Zappa....
A foolish young man
From a middle class fam'ly
Started singin' the blues
'Cause he thought it was manly
Now he talks like the Kingfish
("Saffiiiee!")
From Amos 'n Andy
("Holy mack'l dere...Holy mack'l
dere!")
He tells you that chitlins...
Well, they taste just like candy
He thinks that he's got
De whole thang down
From the Nivea Lotion
To de Royal Crown

Do you know what you are?
You are what you is
You is what you am
(A cow don't make ham...)
You ain't what you're not
So see what you got
You are what you is
An' that's all it 'tis

white folks...hrummPPPH!?

Si, hay hartos, aún estamos en una especie de marcha blanca. Gracias en todo caso por tu feedback, el fenómeno del video que se borra no lo conocíamos. Si quieres te disparo una nota en cuanto las cosas estén andando.
Lamentablemente, me encuentro muy ocupado por trabajo en estos días y el progreso es lento.
Espero que pronto te podamos recibir como corresponde! )

A hint of Tori Amos. Lovin' the trumpets.