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1 posted on 11/17/2018 10:42:18 AM PST by JonnyFive
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#orangemanbad


2 posted on 11/17/2018 10:43:56 AM PST by cdcdawg
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Drawn "IRK"? 😹👍🏼🍿🍻
3 posted on 11/17/2018 10:44:51 AM PST by rktman ( #My2nd! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Elvis is alive. I wonder what he will wear at the ceremony.


4 posted on 11/17/2018 10:45:28 AM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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But it wasn’t racism when the Kenyan was giving it to other blacks. That’s some weird sh*t folks. Can we please get CW2 started?


5 posted on 11/17/2018 10:47:04 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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Trump could’ve awarded it to ANTIFA and Planned Parenthood and he’d be criticized.


8 posted on 11/17/2018 10:48:59 AM PST by albie
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(Excerpt) Read more at

Why, Jonny?

It's your own blog, you can post the whole thing.

Do you think we are your personal hit farm or something?

9 posted on 11/17/2018 10:49:16 AM PST by humblegunner
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He’d be accused of racism if he gave it to Ray Charles.


10 posted on 11/17/2018 10:49:31 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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Trump woke this morning, which was racist.


11 posted on 11/17/2018 10:50:47 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Stop The Madness. Do Not Respond To Vanity Posts.)
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This is foolish talk. Who in the world believes what the news media says?


13 posted on 11/17/2018 10:51:13 AM PST by FreedBird (t)
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Revision of history. WaPo says back then only a white man could be king. Except for Joe Louis, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Jackie Robinson, Jim Brown, Chuck Berry, Eartha Kitt, Ella Fitzgerald,....


14 posted on 11/17/2018 10:51:37 AM PST by lurk
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16 posted on 11/17/2018 10:55:39 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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Hahahahahahahahaha! Guess what? Elvis’ ancestry was Melungeon which was mixed races including..... African.


17 posted on 11/17/2018 10:59:52 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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Elvis was a racist LOL..these commie loons are so retarded they have turned racism, just like they call everyone they disagree with a Nazi, into a joke..the word doesn’t even represent anything anymore. No matter what President Trump does, the commies will find SOMETHING to trash him on..maybe since Elvis loved bananas I guess that made him a racist too


18 posted on 11/17/2018 11:02:48 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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Of course. They accuse him of racism because he’s White.


19 posted on 11/17/2018 11:03:15 AM PST by I want the USA back (It's Ok To Be White. White Lives Matter. White Guilt is Socially Constructed)
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False rumor fueled ‘racist’ label for Presley

By CRAIG SEYMOUR
COX NEWS SERVICE
August 12, 2002

As the 25th anniversary of Presley’s death approaches, it’s worth looking at one of the strangest and most persistent stories in music: how the man dubbed “the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll” has been viewed as an object of contempt — indeed, as a racist — by many African Americans.

This view is not based simply on his use of black music, but on an infamous alleged statement, dating back almost 50 years, that he apparently never made: “The only thing Negroes can do for me is buy my records and shine my shoes.”

Elvis Presley is reputed to have uttered those words, either in Boston or on a CBS news show, in 1957, at the very height of his initial burst of fame. Word of the remark — in some versions using much stronger language — stung the black community, which had largely embraced the former truck driver from Memphis.

On their 1989 hit “Fight the Power,” political rappers Public Enemy called Presley a “straight-up racist.”

And in May, hip-hop-soul diva Mary J. Blige faced a torrent of criticism after singing “Blue Suede Shoes” during a Presley medley on VH1’s “Divas Live” special.

“I prayed about it (performing the song) because I know Elvis was a racist,” Blige said.

“But that was just a song VH1 asked me to sing. It meant nothing to me. I didn’t wear an Elvis flag. I didn’t represent Elvis that day. I was just doing my job.”

“I never said anything like that,” Presley told black-oriented magazine Jet in 1957. “And people who know me know I wouldn’t have said it.”

After an investigation, Jet agreed there was nothing to the rumor.

Black performers from the time discount the story as well. “I would never think that Elvis Presley was a racist,” says R&B veteran Darlene Love, who sang background for him as part of the Blossoms.

“The rumor has persisted because Elvis is a symbol of so many social and musical inequities that are legitimately resented,” says Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick.

Few of Presley’s black contemporaries bear ill will toward him, largely because he was so vocally supportive of black artists. Some African Americans even credit Presley for expanding the audience for black music.

https://www.seattlepi.com/ae/music/article/False-rumor-fueled-racist-label-for-Presley-1093361.php

20 posted on 11/17/2018 11:05:01 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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OFFS


22 posted on 11/17/2018 11:15:47 AM PST by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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Stupid. What does Elvis receiving a posthumous award have to do with racism? The word will be meaningless soon. It is just used for crybabies to get their way.


24 posted on 11/17/2018 11:22:24 AM PST by madison10
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The real racism was awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama.


25 posted on 11/17/2018 11:35:04 AM PST by centurion316
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“Trump Accused of Racism For Getting Out of Bed This Morning”


26 posted on 11/17/2018 12:13:52 PM PST by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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If awarding a Medal of Freedom to Elvis makes Pres. Trump a racist, then awarding one to Miriam Adelson must make him an antisemite. It’s hard to keep score . . .


27 posted on 11/17/2018 12:35:41 PM PST by Blurb2350
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