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E-mail - Graceland

April 14, 2008 @ 08:16


From time to time people google stuff in my archives and then comment on it.. even though it's several months old.

Such is the case with my posting from last summer entitled, Freddie P's Graceland Tour. I received this on Saturday.

"Mr. Fred

In all due respect to your opinion of Graceland, I feel compelled to
give you mine.

As for the $60 cost to see Graceland, I wonder if you have considered
the cost to maintain it for the 75,000+ visitors each year.

Have you considered the number of our fellow Black Americans who are
duly employed at Graceland, as a result of the
fans all over the world who do appreciate Graceland and Elvis' memory?

As far as Graceland being cheesy and over the top - remember that
Graceland is a replica of the 70's. Just like the small house in Tupelo
is a replica of the poverty Elvis lived in as a child.

I think you lack an understanding of Elvis' roots and musical
accomplishments - especially since you implied as much.

When they do a history of the most influential people in the world in
the past hundred years, Elvis and Martin Luther King are equally
remembered....

I really don't understand why
after going there, you came away with such a negative attitude....We
are visting the home of "a man" - housed within his many
accomplishments as a singer -

If you can not appreciate any of that - then I would have to say you
are very close minded....

Thank you Mr. Fred for the opportunity to share a different point of
view with you regarding Elvis' home..."


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90 Responses to "E-mail - Graceland"


Max Taffey
April 14, 2008 / 10:36

I'm not going anywhere near the "...Black Americans who are
duly employed at Graceland.." comment. But to equate Elvis with MLK? Good grief. "I have a dream. A dream of a fried peanut butter and banana sandwich. Ohhhh mama."


Jason | GetYourOJ.com
April 14, 2008 / 12:31

Elvis was a boy band who stole all his moves from talented people.. fellow Black Americans in fact.. lol.. put that in your pipe and msoke it


Mitch L
April 14, 2008 / 13:48

Seriously, what up with the 'our fellow Black Americans' comment?


Donny P.
April 14, 2008 / 23:10

Huh? If there are whacked out people like this around that place, my face will never grace Graceland.


Jason Barr
April 15, 2008 / 07:42

I've never liked Elvis. I don't know why. I just don't. He just irritates me. It might be the throngs of people who worship the man. He didn't write his own songs, he was a drug addict and he died taking a big poo. He's America's Anne Murray, except Anne's not a drug addict and she didn't die taking a poo...although you never know, she might.


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