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Truthfully, I don’t think about many white conservatives actually perceive why Black folks collectively groan when white folks defend themselves towards allegations of racism by insisting: “I can’t be racist, I’ve associates who’re Black.”
I imply, white Republicans don’t even see the racism in parading round each conservative Black voice they’ll discover to amplify as if the social and political views of the only a few amongst Black folks invalidated that of the bigger Black majority throughout America. They declare to abhor “race-based” DEI till it’s time to push for woefully unqualified and “observably silly” Black conservatives like Herschel Walker to occupy an essential legislative place within the U.S. Senate. (Additionally, they’re simply superb with the president appointing woefully underqualified white males to cupboard positions, as a result of the hiring of mediocre white males to important positions isn’t racist, it’s simply a kind of issues America has at all times performed.)
One would suppose that after literal a long time of Black folks telling white those that what their (most likely imaginary) Black associates suppose means nothing to us. But, in 2025, Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, is out right here taking it even additional by suggesting to The Washington Put up that his son wasn’t political or racist when he was youthful and that he and his brother have been associates with — *checks notes* — their “Black servants.”
“They weren’t into political nonsense, and we lived in a really well-run, law-abiding nation with just about no crime in any respect. Truly no crime. We had a number of black servants who have been their associates,” informed the Put up by way of e mail.
Speak about saying the apartheid half out loud.
On Thursday, the Put up revealed an exposé centered on Musk’s shifting views on race. Though, I’m unsure I’d even name it a shift in his views as a lot because it was a shift within the political local weather, conveniently making his racist views extra socially acceptable to voice.
The Put up started by noting that Musk spoke in favor of variety, fairness and inclusion again in 2017, across the time Black folks first began submitting lawsuits towards Tesla for fostering a hostile and racist work setting. In reality, two months after a Black Tesla worker filed a swimsuit alleging that his co-workers often referred to as him the N-word and weren’t disciplined for it, Musk despatched out a companywide e mail titled, “Doing the appropriate factor,” which, in his thoughts, meant white folks apologizing for racism, however, additionally, he primarily demanded that Black folks be “thick-skinned” and settle for no matter apologies they’re supplied.
“A part of not being an enormous jerk is contemplating how somebody would possibly really feel who’s a part of an traditionally much less represented group,” Musk wrote. “In equity, if somebody is a jerk to you, however sincerely apologizes, you will need to be thick-skinned and settle for that apology.”
So, mainly, Musk titled his e mail, “Doing the appropriate factor,” however a extra correct title would have been: “Doing no matter bare-minimum factor to handle anti-Black racism that doesn’t trigger white folks an excessive amount of grief.” Musk couldn’t even be bothered with addressing the precise racism, opting to characterize blatant bigotry as “being an enormous jerk.”
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Quick ahead a number of years and Musk is now not even pretending to cover his contempt for any effort to right the historic systemic racism towards these “traditionally much less represented teams” he wrote about in 2017. Now, he’s an anti-DEI warrior who pretends to be all about “meritocracy” whereas serving as the pinnacle of President Donald Trump’s federal Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) regardless of having zero expertise operating and even serving in any federal workplace previous to his appointment.
“Over the following eight years, as he grew to become the richest man on this planet, Musk shifted from a Democratic-leaning critic of Donald Trump to a Republican-friendly Trump acolyte,” the Put up wrote.
Elon Musk is demonstrably racist, and aligning himself with the orangey-white nationalist president whose inauguration he celebrated by throwing up Nazi salutes is truthfully the least of it.
He defended “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams when Adams referred to as Black folks a “hate group” that he needs “nothing to do with” nor ought to some other white folks, who he recommended ought to “get the hell away from Black folks” and cease attempting to “assist” us.
He referred to as the Oscars a “woke contest” as a result of he thought too many non-white folks have been profitable. Then, when it was identified to him that white actors and administrators dominated all the main awards, he instantly backpedaled and admitted that he was “improper.” Out of the blue, all the pieces was proper in his white world, as a result of, in his thoughts, “woke” is the other of whiteness not dominating all the pieces.
He cosigned racist pseudo-science that claims Black faculty college students have decrease IQs than their white counterparts and insinuated they shouldn’t turn into pilots. He claimed with out proof that DEI insurance policies within the aviation industries and different industries have made us much less secure.
Musk actually believes fewer white folks being born coupled with a rise in non-white immigrants will trigger a “collapse” in civilization.
From the Put up:
He has warned that decrease delivery charges and immigration are diluting American tradition and the cultures of different majority-White and Asian nations. “We must be very cautious about having some form of international mixing pot,” he mentioned earlier this 12 months. He has referred to as unchecked unlawful immigration “civilizational suicide” and “an invasion,” although he himself was working illegally, in violation of his visa, after he deferred his enrollment in a Stanford College graduate program to launch his profession in the US within the Nineties. He additionally warns that declining delivery charges are resulting in “inhabitants collapse,” and, having fathered over a dozen youngsters, stresses the significance of “good folks” having extra youngsters.
Elon Musk is a white nationalist on two totally different continents at this level.
In America, he believes white individuals are discriminated towards by DEI insurance policies whereas ignoring America’s 400-year historical past of legalized racism, which made variety efforts obligatory within the first place. In his residence nation of South Africa, he believes white Afrikaners are being oppressed whereas ignoring the nation’s almost 50-year apartheid historical past, which he pretends has nothing to do with white folks proudly owning 72% of the non-public farmland in South Africa whereas representing solely 9% of the nation’s inhabitants.
However, in fact, we should always ignore all of this as a result of Elon Musk couldn’t probably be racist.
He had Black servant associates, in any case.
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