Don Lemon Has Shown That Elon Musk Is An Emperor Without Clothes

Now who would have thought?

Don Lemon isn’t very popular in the Black community.

The antipathy from some African-Americans towards Lemon does run deep and there’s a feeling that folks are somewhat reluctant to forgive the man for his past sins.

To some, the view is that he isn’t Black enough and to white society, he is probably seen as too Black.

When our protagonist had his spat with Donald Trump, his race was definitely on the agenda and when he interviewed Vivek Ramaswamy, the egregious Republican thought the interviewer was going to let him get away with spouting bare faced lies and Lemon’s instant rebuttal took his former employers by surprise and they wasted no time in sacking him.

Lemon had built a brand strong enough to strike out on his own and this was certainly reasoning behind starting his own show, where famous individuals are interviewed on a number of subjects, closest to their hearts.

And it is against the backdrop of Lemon’s reinvention that an interview was conducted with the wealthiest man in the world and the owner of the platform which was formerly known as twitter.

Elon Musk is worshipped because of his obscene wealth and that alone, in the eyes of billions of people around the globe, puts him above reproach.

Since his acquisition of twitter, we have come to see the man for he truly is: a profoundly bigoted human, whose childhood in apartheid South Africa has shaped his twisted world view.

In a very short space of time, X has gone from a platform where Incels and racists were held to account to a space where bigotry is so ubiquitous and unpunished and this new reality is exacerbated by the fact that the South African is often at the forefront of tweeting false and unsubstantiated claims.

And given my erroneous perception of Lemon, I certainly wasn’t expecting him to conduct an interview which would eviscerate the reputation of Musk being this omnipotent and omniscient being, whose intellect matches, some would argue supersedes the man in the sky.

And yet Lemon pulled it off quite spectacularly.

Over the course of an hour or more, we see the former CNN presenter ask difficult questions on diversity, race, transphobia, technology.

Given the extraordinary degree to which Musk tweets his ugly views on his platform, I was hoping that we would see a bullish version of the billionaire in his face to face with Lemon, but what we saw a bit different.

And quite disturbing, some might say.

The African immigrant, who is used to being brown nosed by everyone, was visibly upset by the line of questioning and this was evinced by his crippling inability to argue his points, cogently and coherently.

Lemon knew that he had his subject exactly where he wanted him and tried to soften the blow by cajoling and pleading while landing the knockout punch and it was a sight to behold.

Excerpts of the interview was broadcast a few days ago and for some, Musk’s performance was confirmation of his racism and bigotry and to his fan boys, it was a timely reminder of his all-encompassing intellect.

And what happened in the immediate aftermath was especially informative: the Tesla owner cancelled his contract with the African-American presenter and took the opportunity to disparage Lemon in a tweet which has been viewed several million times over.

So where does this leave us?

Safe in the knowledge that the apostle of free speech, truly hates the term, especially when it is applied to him and everything that he stands for.

While it was safe to hide under the cloak of hating ‘wokeness’ and DEI, knowing how this plays with vast numbers of white folks, Musk did not expect that Lemon, whom he viewed as an employee of sorts would cast a critical eye on his views. Had the plutocrat known before hand that the line of questioning would be tough and intense, the interview might not have held in the very first place.

We should all be grateful for the fact that Lemon stood his ground and chose to ask the difficult questions.

Billionaires are as stupid, insecure, vindictive and bigoted as the rest of us and it was nice seeing it on display.

This is my two cents, what’s yours?