Was Elvis a racist?

[Ringoid]

I've heard this rumour and want to know whether there is any truth behind it.

[Ringoid]

I disagree trimeresurus as people looking for an elvis related question would come to the music section and not the one you mentioned, but please don't just take my word for it, enter Elvis into the search bar and you'll see that the name "Elvis" will be in music and with some posts or threads in the puzzle or crossword section.

[jackthehat]

Discussions of Elvis's music are pertinent in this section.

Discussions about Elvis's beliefs ought to be posted elsewhere........what is difficult to grasp about that?!?

[emmie]

articles and books i have read, tv documentaries, footage of him over the years, and just because he was a country boy, doesn't mean to say that he was white trash either, people have some strange ideas i must say.
If he had been wouldn't there be plenty of evidence to back this up. You can't keep anything secret, not then nor now.

[To-Ryscum]

put it in Riddles! :0)

[Ringoid]

So you think that this is the wrong section for a question related to Elvis? Or is this the right section and you're bored and like to argue?

[DTCwordfan]

There was a rumour that he was into paedophilia too and the reason that he disappeared

There's another rumour, fueled by his daughter on Larry King, that he had a twin (maybe it is Larry himself as he took it no further).....

All rumour.........and hence irrelevant

[jackthehat]

You have posted a wrong assumption in the wrong section...

[To-Ryscum]

agree with jackthehat - 2-0 to MUFC! :0)

[Ringoid]

Maybe concentrating less on others and insignificant things and more on yourself and your shortcomings would lead to a happier and healthier lifstyle.

[jackthehat]

Very deep, I'm sure...............

[DTCwordfan]

For clarity's sake, to whom was that last comment directed at?

[To-Ryscum]

go ringoid x some tips for you :0)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_WRFJwGsbY&feature=player_embedded

[DTCwordfan]

well that is the prat suspended..........

[sara3]

has Elvis left the building?

[jackthehat]

He's having 'a little less conversation' somewhere else...........:o)

[sara3]

lol ;o)

suspicious minds!

[DTCwordfan]

Elvis is here.
Courtesy of the National Enquirer

http://www.celebritymorgue.com/elvis-presley/

[emmie]

i actually thought he was serious, no?

[andy-hughes]

Elvis grew up in the deep South, where attitudes to black people at that time were undergoing a massive change.

I have heard Elvis on filmsay to one of his black guitarists on stage - "Play that thing *** ..." but this may have been a throwaway use of that term, with no offence intended or taken.

Similarly, the black girl backing singer he teases during his 'laughing' version of the Battle Hymn is said to be someone he was sleeping with, so depending which way you take it, that is proof, or not.

My take on it it is that Elvis worked with a lot of black musicians, and is not on record as ever having made any racist remark in public.