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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/11/op...=1&oref=slogin
"...[I]t was what his music had stood for from the start: the breakdown of barriers, both musical and racial. This is not, unfortunately, how it is always perceived 30 years after his death, the anniversary of which is on Thursday. When the singer Mary J. Blige expressed her reservations about performing one of his signature songs, she only gave voice to a view common in the African-American community. ?I prayed about it,? she said, ?because I know Elvis was a racist.?
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It's rumored that when question about his hit songs being written by black song writers he responded "The only thing a black man can do for me is shine my shoes".
I don't know if it's true but it has been repeated by many people for a long time. So this is why some say he is racist.