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Why are black people so jealous of Elvis Presley ?

Like they are just mad they don’t have any talented artist 

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  • I never in my life; heard of any blk person, jealous of Elvis Presley. There's some talented blk artist like Chuck Berry from them old times too.

    Edit-Someone said Chuck Berry already :P

  • Anonymous
    7 months ago

    This might be about the most asinine comment I've ever read.  Were it not for blacks, Presley would have had little to sing, particularly in his early years.  Most of his early material was just "covers" of songs done earlier by black artists (who mostly wrote the songs too).  It's not worth elaborating for a fool of this degree.  Like a "Trumpie" he'd just deny, deflect & make weak excuses for his woeful ignorance.    

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 months ago

    I'm calling BS.  I know several people who are black, and not one of them has mentioned any kind of problem with a guy who has been dead for almost 50 years.  He just doesn't have much that anyone can envy these days.

  • Zapata
    Lv 6
    7 months ago

    Elvis who? Never heard of her.

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  • Anonymous
    7 months ago

    There are in fact many talented black artists such as BB King, Albert King, Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, and Jimi Hendrix. In fact there are too many to mention Many of them can write their own songs. Elvis is mainly a singer and he cannot write his own songs, and many blacks, such as Marvin Gaye and Otis Redding, are better singers than Elvis. 

  • Anonymous
    7 months ago

    They don't have any talented artist? How about the whole of Motown for starters.

  • Vela
    Lv 6
    7 months ago

    Elvis became the King of Rock and Roll because of racism at the time.

    There were many very talented black artists, but racists wouldn't promote them.

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