I've been watching Elvis. Great example of a bit of historical revisionism.
I always had a vision of Elvis in my head as a drug addled, eating disordered, red neck (nothing wrong with that) Southern boy (nothing wrong with that) who'd sit around with his buddies watching TV and then shoot the screen with his hand gun rather than bother getting up.
But I was wrong. Here is Elvis as 'Elvis the Nigger Lover'. Damn near a Malcolm X in reality.
I'm not American so will await members like Ward Cleaver to set me straight on this.
It appears from the movie that Elvis almost single handedly solved the integration issue in Southern schools.
Good acting though...
I always had a vision of Elvis in my head as a drug addled, eating disordered, red neck (nothing wrong with that) Southern boy (nothing wrong with that) who'd sit around with his buddies watching TV and then shoot the screen with his hand gun rather than bother getting up.
But I was wrong. Here is Elvis as 'Elvis the Nigger Lover'. Damn near a Malcolm X in reality.
I'm not American so will await members like Ward Cleaver to set me straight on this.
It appears from the movie that Elvis almost single handedly solved the integration issue in Southern schools.
Good acting though...
