it doesn’t matter if Elvis was a good guy or not and it doesn’t matter if he had a genuine connection with the music he played and it doesn’t matter if he used his clout to push for black musicians to play in spaces they wouldn’t have otherwise been allowed to. He was still being promoted by racists and profiting from racist white people who wanted to “get their black culture from a white face”

If we're actually having a struggle session on this we might as well get started. I think the answer to those questions matter a lot.