Elvis grew up for many years in north Memphis heavily black area. My co worker said that her mom use to see Elvis walking in the ‘hood’ playing his guitar
I was aware of that. Same was true for me when I was younger. It gives you a bit different outlook on race than you get from folks who never really have lived in truly mixed areas. I can remember several of my black (and white) friends calling me 'nigger' in a friendly way because we were all just buds. It wasn't meant in a derogatory way, though we all knew of and used that particular epithet towards some who actually deserved it. Again, the race of the target of same didn't really matter, because we knew exactly what we meant.
Later on, I moved to an area that was so freaking lilly white, that a full half of the black population of my junior high school class was president of that class. i.e., there were 2 blacks in my class and one was popular enough to be class president. Racism was almost completely foreign in that environment because it just didn't come up.
The people trying to claim Elvis Presley was some kind of racist are most likely very sheltered and small hearted individuals.