Subreddit mocks cultural gatekeepers

Okay, so then it’s fair to say you two are men upset by a cartoon? :smirk:

What I think you’re both determined to overlook is that Elvis was, nevertheless, another objectionable cultural appropriater. Just because this or that specific example doesn’t strictly fit that overall fact doesn’t mean it’s not still a fact.

Is it so hard to acknowledge that like many white singers and musicians, he made a fortune by adapting black cultural forms, while not openly acknowledging that he was doing so?

As another writer puts it, better than I can,

rock’s legacy as a genre pioneered by black people before white artists discovered it, white media re-branded it, and white audiences embraced it means that despite Elvis not spouting racist ideas, his legacy is still rooted in racism—even if that racism isn’t directly born of the man himself. He attained his stature because he was not black [while appropriating black culture] and in doing so, he opened the doors for a generation of his [white] disciples to reap those same benefits.

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