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Old 08-15-2007, 08:04 PM  
Monique Niccole
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Elvis often toured with black background singers and a lot of his music is derived from black blues, gospel, and r&b of the period. At the end of the day, he appropriated a lot of black music, made it popular, and also ermployed a lot of black musicians. Now that doesn't necessarily make him NOT RACIST, but I think he was pretty progressive for his time. To flat out call him "racist" is a bit far fetched IMO.
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