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2777644, He was *really* surly and antisocial, naturally.
Posted by AFKAP_of_Darkness, Tue Feb-12-13 11:25 AM
But when it came time to do interviews and stuff, he at least *tried" to clean up and put on a showbiz face.
He didn't revel in antisocial behavior like the Stones did. He didn't use it as a means of promoting himself as being threatening, dangerous, sexy. He was a black man in 1950s America, for Christ's sake.
He didn't market himself with slogans like "Would You Let Your Sister Go With Chuck Berry?"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/khiltscher/3471500454/in/set-72157617265145148
because most white Americans would not have wanted their sisters to go with ANY spade, period. He worked to make those people like him, he didn't turn his nose up and spit on them.
(That is, except for when his nature got the best of him)
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