No it’s not, and not surprisingly you’ve posted an article that is the perfect example of ‘ideologically driven victimisation fetishism’, with a lot of rewriting of history including passing off as fact a completely unsubstantiated - and by the sounds of it incredibly unlikely - rumour that Elvis once said “The only thing black people can do for me is shine my shoes and buy my music” (“Presley categorically denied making the statement. “I never said anything like that,” he declared, “and people who know me know I wouldn’t have said it.”, also snopes); and Big Momma Thorton didn’t write “Hound Dog”, it was two Jewish guys - Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who wrote the song for her at the request of Greek-American, and R&B legend, Johnny Otis (father of Shuggie), they later worked with Elvis and gave him that and wrote many other songs for him.
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