How the hell did ELVIS get turned into a RACIST?
 

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.?

Back in them days alot more people were racist than today.

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.

awww poor Mary J.

Wasn't it Mary J that said "I'd rather have my children starve than have white people buy my album"

Who the fuck is Mary J?

I've heard that rumor as well. I've also heard that attributed to Jerry Lee Lewis.

Elvis got turned into a racist by people with small minds with nothing better to do than trash the most loved music icon in history.

Period.

Just another total moron who is totally uneducated about what she speaks of.

Good summation of the very common practice of historicism.

Elvis was turned into a racist be people that stereotype southern white males as racist.

Elvis wasnt black, therefore he clearly was a racist.

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