The Washington Post recentlypublisheda long feature story that , put courteously , require why exactly Elon Musk decide to make his primary foeman diversity , equity , and inclusion programme — and put less politely , asks when exactly did he get so anti-Semite ? In it , Musk ’s Church Father , Errol Musk , offer up an anecdote that he probably believes is exculpatory of the upbringing that he provide to his child but in reality get off as passably damnatory .
According to The Post , Errol said that Musk and his buddy were “ concerned in motorbike , figurer , hoops and a fiddling about missy ” as kids , and “ They were not into political nonsense . ” According to Errol ’s singing , “ We lived in a very well - bunk , law - abiding nation with almost no crime at all . Actually no crime . We had several inglorious servants who were their friends . ” He also reportedly told the paper that Musk had several Black friends .
First and foremost , it ’s deserving realize before even deal the Elon of it all that Errol Musk seems like he just perfectly suck up . As a father and as a human being , all signs betoken to the dude just being the spoilt . take up Elon , his pal Kimbal , and their mother Maye at their word , he wasphysicallyandverballyabusive to the whole family . After the divorce , the fourth-year Musk ended up havinga childwith his stepdaughter .
Errol Musk, father of Elon Musk, pictured in front of a Tesla© Denver Post Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon
He is also passably anti-Semite himself . In speaking to Walter Isaacson for his biography of Elon , Errolexplainedthat he did n’t register his emerald mine with the government because “ If you registered it [ a mine ] , you would twist up with nothing , because the Blacks would take everything from you . ” But do n’t worry , he explained , “ I do n’t have anything against the Blacks , but they are just dissimilar from what I am . ” That clear thing up !
Errol seems to come from the school of “ I ’m not racist but , ” as he did run for office against a pro - apartheid politician in South Africa and took his family to an anti - apartheid concert , agree to The Post . But it does n’t seem like he ’s done a whole circumstances of reckoning with his kinship to backwash beyond that ground on how he talks about the matter .
Elon is sure enough not responsible for the sin of his sire , and there ’s at least a little bit of elbow room for interpret why , after being get up in that environment , Elon would be a small bonk up . But he ’s gone on to register his own fairish share of sins , as the Post details ( and as you could see simply by scrolling through his Twitter provender for a little bit , it ’s not exactly hidden ) .
Just in late months , he’swarned against cultures mixing , snivel aboutdeclining birth rates in bulk - white nation , and inexplicably take that efforts to engage from a more various pocket billiards of candidates to extend chance to nonage groupsleads to people dying . And latterly , plunge back into his South African roots , he ’s facilitate push thebaseless narration that there is a “ genocide ” against white peoplein South Africa .
But hey , he ca n’t be racist — his pappa said he had fateful friends .
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