Elvis Presley’s Graceland vandalized with ‘Black Lives Matter’ graffiti

[rangerrebew]

 Elvis Presley’s Graceland vandalized with ‘Black Lives Matter’ graffiti

By Tamar Lapin

September 1, 2020 | 4:29pm | Updated
 

Graceland is all shook up.

Elvis Presley’s estate was vandalized with “Black Lives Matter” and “Defund the Police” graffiti overnight into Tuesday.

The protest slogans were found spray-painted in black and orange on the stone wall surrounding the King’s mansion, a signature Memphis landmark and major tourist draw, local newspaper The Commercial Appeal reported.

“Abolish ICE” and “F–k Trump” were also among the spray-painted phrases.

The graffiti covered up many of the hundreds of tributes to the music icon handwritten by fans on the wall over the years.

 https://nypost.com/2020/09/01/elvis-presleys-graceland-vandalized-with-blm-graffiti/

[HuskyPatriot]

Unknowledgeable idiots!!! Elvis' musical influences included black music and traditional gospel associated with black churches. He was inspired by many black artists.  What the heck??!! 

[cato potatoe]

It's fortunate that Elvis did not live to see what became of his neighborhood.

[Victoria33]

@rangerrebew

This is so bad/disgusting.  Send them to prison for 100 years.  Let 100 years be given to every BLM person who destroys/tears down/vandalizes/defaces ANYTHING and I mean "anything", such as a dog's house in a backyard.  Something has to stop this destruction.
I have not been to Graceland but my Bob has.  He says shoot them on the spot.

[truth_seeker]

Unknowledgeable idiots!!! Elvis' musical influences included black music and traditional gospel associated with black churches. He was inspired by many black artists.  What the heck??!! 

The people behind BLM-Antifa a generally young, college educated.

They didn't learn about Elvis Presley.

They learned about Karl Marx.

"race music" wouldn't be in their curriculum.

They are truly insane.

[dfwgator]

Unknowledgeable idiots!!! Elvis' musical influences included black music and traditional gospel associated with black churches. He was inspired by many black artists.  What the heck??!! 

You can blame it on Public Enemy's "Fight the Power"

 
Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant .... to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain
Mother .... him and John Wayne

[Fishrrman]

Forget it, Elvis, it's Memphis.
Time to disassemble Graceland piece-by-piece and relocate it somewhere else.
How about outside of Nashville...?

[PeteS in CA]

You can blame it on Public Enemy's "Fight the Power"

 
Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant .... to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain
Mother .... him and John Wayne

In real life, for example, covering "Hound Dog" made it a bigger hit than it had been a couple years earlier, earning the writer who was black much more royalty $$. And Elvis knew that could be the outcome. Elvis also gave visibility to Big Mama Thornton (who had the R & B hit with "Hound Dog") in the 60s, that gave her career a boost (obviously, she did the work of performing).

[goatprairie]

In real life, for example, covering "Hound Dog" made it a bigger hit than it had been a couple years earlier, earning the writer who was black much more royalty $$. And Elvis knew that could be the outcome. Elvis also gave visibility to Big Mama Thornton (who had the R & B hit with "Hound Dog") in the 60s, that gave her career a boost (obviously, she did the work of performing).

The famous songwriting team of Lieber and Stoller were the writers.

[jmyrlefuller]

Abolish ICE?

Ahem. Elvis's manager, the man who likely drove him to an early grave, was Colonel Tom Parker—not a colonel, but an illegal alien who snuck into the country from the Netherlands. If there had been an ICE in the late 1960s, Elvis might have iived a whole lot longer than he did.

[PeteS in CA]

The famous songwriting team of Lieber and Stoller were the writers.

  "Memory" fart.