Social "Suspicious Minds": Trump accused of racism for honoring Elvis

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President Trump accused of racism as he honors Elvis among other American legends

Not everyone believes Elvis is the king.

President Trump will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to seven Americans on Friday, including the late rock star Elvis Presley, though even that gesture is coming under fire from liberals.

Trump is honoring Presley, baseball legend Babe Ruth, former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, philanthropist Miriam Adelson, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, jurist Alan Page, and Hall-of-Fame quarterback Roger Staubach.

Still, some have accused Trump of racism for honoring Presley, long known as the "King of Rock and Roll."

The Washington Post’s pop culture critic Chris Richards called Trump’s move “a little nod to the good old days, back when black visionaries could invent rock-and-roll, but only a white man could become the king.”

“Yes, Trump is sending a message here,” Richards wrote.

That claim has been scoffed at online, with the Weekly Standard publishing a rebuttal titled, “Elvis Wasn’t Racist. Neither Is Giving Him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.”

“If you’re invested in making Elvis an avatar for racial resentments more than 40 years after his death, you’re, perhaps unwittingly, making the problems of contemporary divisions worse,” columnist Mark Hemingway wrote. “Music is one of a precious few cultural forces still holding us together.”


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This is the sad world we live in, folks.
 
Autism is no joke.
 
You're being radicalized with all this fake news, glen. You cant see it yet, but you will.
 
Yeah that's pretty stupid to put it mildly.
So going by that logic lilo and stitch is a racist cartoon now?
 
That's insane. The erasure of real history, because white people did cool stuff, needs to stop immediately.

All this crap is going to give a rise to a right-wing.. One that will have a moral ground to stand on. Stop building that ground.
 
They're all triggered up, mhm hm hm, yay, yea yea, they're all triggered up.

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The Washington Post’s pop culture critic Chris Richards called Trump’s move “a little nod to the good old days, back when black visionaries could invent rock-and-roll, but only a white man could become the king.”

“Yes, Trump is sending a message here,” Richards wrote.

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and people don't believe the media is trying to race bait and divide.
 
You have to be mentally ill, and uninformed about Elvis’s career to come up with this shit.
 
Lazy writing
Lazy deduction
Unsubstantiated allegations of racism

Sums up much of the "free press" these days.
 
While I personally don't think there is anything wrong (or racist) for giving Elvis some sort of posthumous Freedom (???) award, the author is correct about him becoming famous off black peoples music.

Perhaps Donald should have also given an award to this guy too, as a gesture of good will...

 
Well....only thing left to say is :

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Trying to drag racism into this is ludicrous.

What really needs to be said about Elvis Presley is that he was a vastly, vastly overrated musician and performer (who ended his relatively short career as an almost literal joke). His real gifts were his looks and his charismatic personality.
 
Trying to drag racism into this is ludicrous.

What really needs to be said about Elvis Presley is that he was a vastly, vastly overrated musician and performer (who ended his relatively short career as an almost literal joke). His real gifts were his looks and his charismatic personality.
pretty sexy crooning voice, bubba
 
Damn, Elvis is racist now?

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Dude... he's a white male! FFS! Of course he is racist... unless he was gay. If he was gay, then we must honor him and give him a pass for being white. There are rules you know.
 
I don’t even like Elvis, but I don’t see any racism here.
 
While I personally don't think there is anything wrong (or racist) for giving Elvis some sort of posthumous Freedom (???) award, the author is correct about him becoming famous off black peoples music.

Perhaps Donald should have also given an award to this guy too, as a gesture of good will...


Black people own a genre of music?
 
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