Elon J Lerlow

I keep seeing these "Elon Musk is a genius" posts. Educated professionals are stating, literally, that he's a genius. Is that the same Elon Musk who said "the coronavirus panic is dumb", who supports Kanye West for president of the US, and who named his child "X Æ A-12"? Is it the same Mr. Musk who has spent more $billions on blowing up rockets in an attempt to get a super-privileged few to live on Mars, after they've made life so intollerable through the environmental damage they've caused for the rest of us on Earth?

Due to the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests in recent weeks I have been watching old speeches by James Baldwin, reading letters by Martin Luther King, learning about Fred Hampton, I've begun reading a book by Angela Davis, I've read books and watched documentaries about Malcolm X, and I'm currently reading the excellent book How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America by Manning Marable; I've watched the documentaries 13th and LA 92 on Netflix; and, of course, I've seen the footage on social media of the BLM protesters, and the rather excellent journalism from Vice News (whose work must be the outstanding journalistic achievement to emerge from these protests). BLM activists have asked us (as non-blacks) to 'listen and learn', and I'm certainly doing my best in that regard. One thing I have learned was something that Malcolm X made so brilliantly clear, that capitalism has made Black Americans hate thems...