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Actually, 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 mates 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 beliefs 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 necessary legislative place within the U.S. Senate. (Additionally, they’re simply positive 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 finished.)
One would suppose that after literal many years of Black folks telling white people who what their (most likely imaginary) Black mates 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 mates 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. Really no crime. We had a number of Black servants who have been their mates,” Errol advised the Put up by way of e mail.
Discuss saying the apartheid half out loud.
On Thursday, the Put up printed an exposé targeted 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 surroundings. In truth, two months after a Black Tesla worker filed a swimsuit alleging that his co-workers steadily known as him the N-word and weren’t disciplined for it, Musk despatched out a companywide e mail titled, “Doing the best factor,” which, in his thoughts, meant white folks apologizing for racism, however, additionally, he basically demanded that Black folks be “thick-skinned” and settle for no matter apologies they’re provided.
“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 best factor,” however a extra correct title would have been: “Doing no matter bare-minimum factor to deal with 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 appropriate 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 actually the least of it.
He defended Dilbert creator Scott Adams when Adams known as Black folks a “hate group” that he needs “nothing to do with” nor ought to every other white folks, who he steered ought to “get the hell away from Black folks” and cease making an attempt to “assist” us.
He known as the Oscars a “woke contest” as a result of he thought too many non-white folks have been successful. Then, when it was identified to him that white actors and administrators dominated all the key awards, he instantly backpedaled and admitted that he was “incorrect.” All of the sudden, every little thing was proper in his white world as a result of in his thoughts, “woke” is the other of whiteness not dominating every little thing.
He cosigned racist pseudo-science that claims Black school 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 protected.
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 beginning charges and immigration are diluting American tradition and the cultures of different majority-White and Asian international locations. “We ought to be very cautious about having some type of international mixing pot,” he stated earlier this yr. He has known 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 USA within the Nineties. He additionally warns that declining beginning charges are resulting in “inhabitants collapse,” and, having fathered over a dozen youngsters, stresses the significance of “sensible folks” having extra children.
Elon Musk is a white nationalist on two totally different continents at this level.
In America, he believes white individuals are discriminated towards by way of DEI insurance policies whereas ignoring America’s 400-year historical past of legalized racism, which made variety efforts essential within the first place. In his house nation of South Africa, he believes white Afrikaners are being oppressed whereas ignoring the nation’s practically 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, after all, we must always ignore all of this as a result of Elon Musk couldn’t presumably be racist.
He had Black servant mates, in spite of everything.
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