Elon, me and 20 million views: A conversation with Grok | Race Issues

“Didn’t know you were famous,” the rapper Juliani, an old friend and musical collaborator, texted me from his studio in Nairobi.

I didn’t have a clue what he was referring to, but then he forwarded me the link to a tweet by Elon Musk that included a screenshot of a 2019 Al Jazeera column of mine, “Abolishing whiteness has never been more urgent.” The original post was circulating on Twitter/X, courtesy of a white nationalist poster who obviously wasn’t too happy with the…