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    Speaking about the mine, Errol told Musk biographer Walter Isaacson: ā€œIf you registered it, you would wind up with nothing, because the Blacks would take everything from you.ā€

    Hmm…exactly the guy to prove someone isn’t racist.

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    ā€œHe’s not racist, it’s just that I taught him that he was superior to every black person that he ever met as a child.ā€ Fucking hell.

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    He paid black people to be nice to Musk as a child… and that’s his defense!?

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    I thought I was so original posting this yesterday:

    Elon ā€œI can’t possibly be a racist troll, some of my best serfs are Negroes!ā€ Musk.

    Turns out his own father beat me to it!

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    I read the headline and was absolutely positive that it was an onion article, then saw where this was posted.

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          In the early 1990s, Errol, then aged 45, married Heide Bezuidenhout, a 25-year old he described as ā€œone of the best looking women I’ve ever seen in my lifeā€. They had two children. Jana Bezuidenhout, who was his stepdaughter from that marriage, and four years old at the time Errol became her stepfather, later became his romantic partner.

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    Yowza.

    Just shows how disconnected from reality these people are. They live in a bubble of luxury, affluence, yes-men. They’ve never experienced any semblance of hardship or struggle, ever. He grew up with servants for fucks sake.

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    How dumb do you have to be to mess up the ā€œI have a black friendā€ defense?

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    Look, I think my opinion on Elon is obvious, but ā€œmy son made friends with people whose best interest was to be friendly towards him and not mouth offā€ is not a good argument lmao

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    My family is originally from Rhodesia, I was shocked when my father told me he had servants growing up

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      It’s very common outside of Europe and North America. You don’t need to be wealthy when so many are super poor.