Body & Soul1 min ago
Was Elvis a racist?
I've heard this rumour and want to know whether there is any truth behind it.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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