LOS ANGELES - eTradeWire -- Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson on Tuesday December 10 charged Elon Musk with hypocrisy and censorship for pulling Hutchinson's X tweet charging racial bias in the Daniel Penny acquittal. Musk branded it "hateful conduct." Hutchinson simply  cited a quote from Mark Twain's classic Huckleberry Finn to underscore the corrosive effect of racism past and present in devaluing Black lives.

"Musk has loudly and repeatedly shouted that his X is an unabashed open platform for all views and that he is the arch defender of free speech," says Hutchinson, "Yet a post that quoted from an American classic by America's icon writer on the ills  of racism apparently doesn't fit Musk's criteria of free speech."

https://x.com/earlhutchinson

Hi earl,   Your post was detected by our systems and has had its visibility limited for violating the X rules. Specifically:   We have determined your post violated our rules against Hateful Conduct.   You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.           earl @hutchinsonrepo2       @earlhutchinson The value of Black Lives then and now in Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain captured the total worthlessness of black lives during slavery. Aunt Sally asked Huck why he was late arriving home. Huck lied and told her that his boat had been delayed: Huck: 'We blowed out…

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