Reply With QuoteI don´t believe for one second Elvis said that, or at least to that gossip columnist.Originally Posted by presley31
WHY MEXICANS HATED ELVIS!
May 1959: While Elvis Presley's popularity in the U.S. was arguably at its all-time peak, Mexico was in the midst of a huge anti-Elvis backlash.
Tijuana tabloids called him a racist and homosexual, after the singer reportedly told gossip columnist Federico de León "I'd rather kiss three black girls than a Mexican." A Mexican woman in the same column was quoted saying "I'd rather kiss three dogs than one Elvis Presley."
Mexican Radio Exitos read de León's column over the air and spearheaded a boycott of the "insolent artist," while the powerful student group Federación Estudiantil Universitaria (FEU) held public record burnings.
When Elvis' movie King Creole screened in May 1959 at the Américas Cinema in Mexico City, newspapers who'd advertised the film under the title Melodía Siniestra (Sinister Melody) reported a "riot" occurring.
Mexican counterculture novelist Parménides García Saldaña wrote a short story, "El rey criollo," about the screening where several hundred gatecrashers reportedly shredded the seats and threw lit papers onto patrons from the balcony.
"Before the film began," wrote Saldaña, "it was pure chaos, a f-ing riot as they say more vulgarly. The different gangs shouted ‘Here the Guerrero [neighborhood],' ‘Here the Roma' ...And then some chicks come in with leather jackets with swastikas painted on them, pony tails and bobby socks, real rock and roller like...a group of guys gang up around them [and shout] "‘Dance!'"
Mexican reporters suggested Elvis' hip-wiggling and mannerisms proved he was either maricón (homosexual) or actually a woman in reverse-drag.
The movie Los chiflados del rock'n roll, a musical spoof, was promoted with posters showing Elvis in drag, being shot by rifle-toting men in sombreros, under a banner reading "Die Elvis Presley!"
The book "Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture" (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999) claims the original Elvis quote was fabricated. According to author Eric Zolov, "Herbe Pompeyo of Polygram Records in Mexico City claims that a high-up Mexican political figure wanted to contract Presley for a private party, for which he sent the performer a blank check to fill in as he wished. Presley, according to the story, returned the blank check, so the politico, extremely offended, invented the storyline about Elvis not liking Mexican women."
Who could have imagined that, four decades later, Mexico would be producing more Elvis velvet paintings than any other region in the world...
...not to mention giving us "El Vez, the Mexican Elvis...."
http://www.elvisunlimited.com/news.a...79&news_id=218
I don´t believe for one second Elvis said that, or at least to that gossip columnist.
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Don't believe it either. Not sure why this kind of stuff is still being circulated.
Forever Best Friends
A great read
No, I don't believe Elvis said anything like that to a columnist. He knew better than that.
Diane
I have seen him kiss on the lips some ones not very gifted from the beauty goddess too and I admire him for that
He didn´t seem prejudiced to me at all.
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I believe Elvis made it clear what he thought of Gossip Mags.
Don't believe he said this either.
I have a mixed son-in-law and his grandfather brought him up on the gossip on Elvis and blacks. I had to educate him ! He now loves Elvis..
"I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem."
I wonder what they thought of Elvis singing those few mexican songs he sang?
I think its crazy for anyone to believe that Elvis would have EVER said this. It's unfortunate that he was out of the country when this was published and I am sure that if or when he got wind of this, he couldn't have been happy about this. He was already worried about his career and fans while he was in the army. Knowing this lie was circulating couldn't have made him happy.
"More people today should see him not simply as a performer, but as an artist with a great soul."
John Bakke, professor emeritus
University of Memphis
There will always be things said about elvis that really make no sense at all. To bad people can find the true facts before they write a story, but than again gossip sells.
You're right on target there Jen.
Diane
I've nothing against Mexicans either
.My son married a beautiful girl from there .
I've visited Mexico myself. Lots of poor people there, but very friendly.
We may all be just as poor soon.
"I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem."
By todays standards Elvis would very probably look sexist and dare I say it a little bit racist. The 80s, 90s and 2000's have seen political correctness progressively overtake common sense
However I don't ever believe that Elvis was any more racist that your average Joe Public.
Well what it is known among Elvis fans here in Mexico these days is that that rumor was started not here but in the U.S. by one more gossip Mag that wanted to put down Elvis (whatever the reasons) by the late 50's, now Presley could have not said that, as it is known today that he didn´t even was at the town were he suposedly said that.
Now by the late 50's Elvis Presley was loved and hated in Mexico, same percentage as he was loved and hated in his native country or any other part of the world. Today, Presley is both worshiped and mocked here, and everything in between, as same as in the U.S. or any other country. It is retarded to believe that a whole country hates one singer by some fake rumor isn´t it?
Sure, back in the 50's Presley public records burnings happened here, elder people was shocked by his stage antics, and lots of religious right movements and people in the media wanted him banned in the country, he was conceived as a bad influence by many, but these was no diferent from any other part in the world, Memphis included. So of course when that nasty rumor started to circulate around here, it was pushed by the anti Elvis establishment and used as an another excuse to put him down, now I guess as ever some people swallow it, but the diehard fans, that huge mass of rock and rollers and teenage girls that were Elvis crazy, knew it was bullshit, and they still loved him, those are now the older fans of these days. It was well known among Elvis fans clubs that the rumor was a total fake since the 50's.
Now about that Herbe Pompeyo of Polygram Records in Mexico City, claiming that a high-up Mexican political figure wanted to contract Presley for a private party: total carp. That guy was a well know disc jockey here in Mexico City back in the 60's, 70's and 80's, not of my liking I might say, the guy is full of sh... one more of those rumor promoting guys just to boost their bad radio shows, the guys knows nothing, and altough he is an Elvis fan, he´s just one of those guys that even claim they meet Elvis once to promote themselves, a total looser.
At last, when King Creole was premiered here in Mexcio in '59 a huge riot happened, but that has nothing to do with the anti-Elvis people, that riot was nothing but a display of a the mass histeria that might be known as the ELVIS-MANIA, a big bunch of girls going crazy, that boosted up with some hooligan rock and rollers going wild, trashing out the cinema just for kicks while Presley did Trouble. Well I guess some elder people didn´t liked that much.
Last edited by Raised on Rock; 06-23-2008 at 01:21 PM.
I'm certainly glad to know you nor others believe that BS.
Elvis loved all people and had friends of every race, color and creed.
Never did I believe Elvis was racist. He grew up with too many different kinds of people.
Once in a while, I might have thought he was a tad sexist.
But, my son is the same way and I told him to gow up or live alone !
"I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem."
Well, it might be said the way of thinking by today standars, of most people around Elvis age back in the 50's 60's and even 70's may be a little on the sexist and racist side, but in fact, compared to most people of his generation, Presely seemed in fact quite an open minded guy. (Plus if he was still alive today, he might be one of many to overcome certain sexist points of view)By todays standards Elvis would very probably look sexist and dare I say it a little bit racist. The 80s, 90s and 2000's have seen political correctness progressively overtake common sense
However I don't ever believe that Elvis was any more racist that your average Joe Public.
Although there is no evidence to call Elvis a macho sexist pig, if there is little to believe that he was on the sexist track of mind, well I guess you can´t overcome your culture and the way you was brought up in life that easy (I mean your talking about someone who grew up in the 40's), and yet many of his attitudes towards his wife and other women in his life were quite "before his times" for a man that was born in 1935. Going out of topic a little bit, many things have been said about how out of touch was Elvis with all the changes that took place during the 60's, some of it might be true, but in fact, and compared with other white southern rock and rollers like Jerry Lee Lewis or Carl Perkins, his life style was much more in tune in many aspects with the changing 60's and 70's than most people of his age and from the part of the U.S. where he came from.
About the racist stuff, well if you can say there is little that might lead us to believe he was sexist (I think he was not), but there is non, and I say, THERE IS NOTHING that might let anybody believe he was a racist. The old rumors of Elvis saying: "The only thing black people can do for me is buy my records and shine my shoes" and the ""I'd rather kiss three black girls than a Mexican" are long time proved as total BS.
Good reading anyhow, thanks for posting Presley31.
Last edited by Raised on Rock; 06-23-2008 at 04:49 PM.
I have seen him kiss on the lips some ones not very gifted from the beauty goddess too and I admire him for that
He didn´t seem prejudiced to me at all.
Agreed!By todays standards Elvis would very probably look sexist and dare I say it a little bit racist. The 80s, 90s and 2000's have seen political correctness progressively overtake common sense
However I don't ever believe that Elvis was any more racist that your average Joe Public.
It's B.S. Elvis wouldn't have said anything like that....just like those 'supposed' diaries that are supposed to be his that have re-surfaced after nearly twenty years....
A great read
And a great laugh.....
Elvis did say, "He loved the Spanish Flavored Music" in 1972 but he never said he liked Spanish Flavored women..lol
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