ByMary Whitfill Roeloffs
ByMary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes Staff.
Elon Musk, the world's richest man, evoked his partner’s ethnicity and claimed the name of their eldest son—allegedly taken from a scientist of Indian descent—proves he isn’t a racist after fellow billionaire Vinod Khosla lobbed accusations of racism and attempted to poach Musk’s employees.
Khosla, a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, recently resurfaced a months-old tweet of Musk’s lamenting the world's falling birth rate, in which Musk specifically claimed, "White people are a rapidly diminishing minority of global population."
