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again assumed that its singer was black.[52] From
the beginning of his national fame, Presley expressed respect for African
American performers and their music, and disregard for the norms of segregation
and racial prejudice then prevalent in the South. Interviewed in 1956, he
recalled how in his childhood he would listen to blues musician Arthur
Crudup—the originator of "That's All Right"—"bang his box the way
I do now, and I said if I ever got to the place where I could feel all old
Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like nobody ever saw."[36] The Memphis
World, an African American newspaper, reported that Presley, "the rock 'n'
roll phenomenon", "cracked Memphis's segregation laws" by
attending the local amusement park on what was designated as its "colored
night".[36] Such statements and actions led Presley to be generally hailed
in the black community during the early days of his stardom.[36] By contrast,
many white adults, according to Billboard's Arnold Shaw, "did not like
him, and condemned him as depraved. Anti-negro prejudice doubtless figured in
adult antagonism. Regardless of whether parents were aware of the Neg  Cheap Louis Vuittonro
sexual origins of the phrase 'rock 'n' roll', Presley impressed them as the
visual and aural embodiment of sex."[305]

Despite the largely positive view of Presley held
by African Americans, a rumor spread in mid-1957 that he had at some point
announced, "The only thing Negroes can do for me is buy my records and
shine my shoes." A journalist with the national African American weekly
Jet, Louie Robinson, pursued the story. On the set of Jailhouse Rock, Presley
granted him an interview, though he was no longer dealing with the mainstream
press. He denied making such a statement or holding in Louis Vuitton
Handbags any way to its racist view. Robinson found no
evidence that the remark had ever been made, and on the contrary elicited
testimony from many individuals indicating that Presley was anything but
racist.[36][306] Blues singer Ivory Joe Hunter, who had heard the rumor before
he visited Graceland one evening, reported of Presley, "He showed me every
courtesy, and I think he's one of the greatest."[307] Though the rumored
remark was wholly discredited at the time, it was still being used against
Presley decades later.[308] The identification of     Louis Vuitton outletPresley
with racism—either personally or symbolically—was expressed most famously in
the lyrics of the 1989 rap hit "Fight the Power", by Public Enemy:
"Elvis was a hero to most / But he never meant shit to me / Straight-up
racist that sucker was / Simple and plain".[309]

The persistence of
such attitudes was fueled by resentment over the fact that Presley, whose
musical and visual performance idiom owed much to African American sources,
achieved the cultural acknowledgment and commercial success largely denied his
black peers.[306] Into the 21st century, the notion that Presley had
"stolen" black music still found adherents.[308][309] Notable among
African American entertainers expressly rejecting this view was Jackie Wilson,
who argued, "A lot of

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