Musk’s Dad: Elon’s Not Racist—He Was Friends With ‘Black Servants’
Elon Musk’s dad tried to prove his son wasn’t racist in all the wrong ways.
Errol, the 79-year-old father of the world’s richest man, insisted that his children were not into “political nonsense” while growing up in apartheid-era South Africa.
“We had several black servants who were their friends,” Errol touted in an email to The Washington Post in response to questions about his son’s hostility toward diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Errol fondly recalled the South Africa of Elon’s childhood—during which the country was run by a white supremacist regime that kept its Black-majority population in poverty and under strict racial segregation—as a “well-run, law abiding country with virtually no crime at all.”
The Musk patriarch said he worked as an engineer and imported emeralds from an unregistered Zambian mine, which “helped me and my two boys sustain ourselves during the collapse of Apartheid in SA.”
Musk’s Dad: Elon’s Not Racist—He Was Friends With ‘Black Servants’
The Musk patriarch also fondly recalled apartheid-era South Africa as as a “well-run, law abiding country.”
