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Old 05-06-2022, 06:24 PM
 
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Then why even bring it up in the first place??? People are going to jump to conclusions like I did (yes I admit). Just leave this topic as it's just a backhanded slap at the Musk Family! It's simply lazy journalism.
It’s worse than lazy journalism. At best it is passive aggressive, and at its worse it is an intentional use of words to defame Musk. Reprehensible journalism is more appropriate. NYTrash. They are no better than a tabloid. A once great paper turned to garbage.
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Old 05-06-2022, 09:05 PM
 
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Another dishonest hit piece, this time by the once respectable CNN.
This one titled "Elon Musk's possible takeover of Twitter is unsettling for many Black users". Deeply offensive these people are literally telling a blatant lie while pretending to speak on behalf of black people. I can assure you 99.9% of black people couldn't care less about Musk's Twitter takeover.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/us/tw...ter/index.html


This cheap propaganda piece posing as journalism should get criticism from black public figures, but it wont.
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Old 05-06-2022, 09:09 PM
 
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Nobody takes the NYT seriously anymore.
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Old 05-06-2022, 09:38 PM
 
Location: Sandusky, Ohio
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Lol, no. This was brought up a lot years ago. It’s the same as Trump. Only some knew what ****ty people they were. They both rewrite their history, they both pull a ton of bull**** the mainstream only began to really learn about once they become more prominent figures, and they both adopt a right wing persona because they’re vindictive *******s obsessed with being liked. People didn’t “suddenly” dislike Trump in 2015/16. That’s just when he started spewing right wing bull**** despite running on single payer healthcare in his first Presidential run. Musk is doing the same thing. He talks about loving Obama and now he’s pretending Obamas Vice President is far left. Because he’s finally found the side that will like him. As long as he keeps validating their beliefs daily on Twitter.
Must be a very remote dark cave where you live? Obama's VP IS far left. Granted he was directed there by Obama himself. Nonetheless, there he is way way over there on the left.
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Old 05-07-2022, 08:14 AM
 
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Can, it's just harder to win. Just google something like "actor sues tabloids" etc for a bunch of examples.
I thought the precedent was set by Jerry Falwell’s lawsuit against Larry Flint when he sued Hustler for publishing content accusing him of having sex with his mom or something like that. Didn’t the Supreme Court rule that a public figure could have all sorts of defamation published against them in the name of satire?
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Old 05-07-2022, 12:26 PM
 
Location: new yawk zoo
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Musk was born with the wrong skin tone. Imagine if he was darker? He would be praised by the liberal media as the greatest person on earth. Musk is the first and richest African American on earth!
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Old 05-07-2022, 12:42 PM
 
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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People, Elon is not an African American. He is a European American who happens to have been born in Africa. Africans are black people and Europeans are White people.
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Old 05-07-2022, 12:48 PM
 
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Musk was born with the wrong skin tone. Imagine if he was darker? He would be praised by the liberal media as the greatest person on earth. Musk is the first and richest African American on earth!
Nah, Whether he is praised or attacked by liberal media depends on if they agree with him.
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Old 05-07-2022, 02:10 PM
 
Location: Sammamish, WA
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People, Elon is not an African American. He is a European American who happens to have been born in Africa. Africans are black people and Europeans are White people.
Sub-Saharan Africans are typically dark-skinned negroid (congoid) phenotype.
North Africans are typically medium to dark-skinned Caucasian phenotype.

But South Africa is unique because most of it was uninhabited when the Dutch, and then later the British colonized it and built a functioning, modern civilization there. The "bush" people were the original inhabitants, nomadic hunter-gatherers, who occupied only small parts of the land. The Bantu Africans were invaders who tried to conquer much of the central and southern African continent.

Elon is a legit African-American.
South Africa was founded by Dutch/British and basically built by them.
There would be no "South Africa" if not for the Dutch & British.

Elon is more of an African-American than most black Americans (who have never stepped foot on African soil, and probably never will).
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Old 05-07-2022, 05:33 PM
 
Location: Retired in VT; previously MD & NJ
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People, Elon is not an African American. He is a European American who happens to have been born in Africa. Africans are black people and Europeans are White people.
What are the people of north Africa called?
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