23-11-2018 16:13 via sltrib.com

Gary Abernathy: Trump honoring Elvis? It’s about time.

When Elvis Presley was included among President Donald Trump’s honorees for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, my first thought was, “It’s about time,” followed by the recognition that it would reignite the popular revisionist claim that Presley “appropriated” black culture and music, a nonsensical allegation that wasn’t shared by most of the black artists of the 1950s.That sentiment is most succinctly summed up by Public Enemy’s Chuck D in the 198
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