“Keeping the focus on skin and not extreme wealth actually works to the advantage of the extremely wealthy.” Bingo! The wealth divide is THE main issue here. Everything else, while still important on some level, is a distraction from this giant elephant in the room.

“There is no "they" my friend. There are racist people and there are people who are smart and secure enough in themselves not to be. I pray, for your own happiness, that one day this hits you.” This won a guffaw from me. ;-)

Elon Musk is a bit of a disappointment to me. Brilliant man but definitely immature. He could use his wealth and position to foment a rational discourse on his concerns. Some of which, like free speech, I align with. Instead, as you intimated, he plays to teenage mindsets. It speaks to the fact that he was likely raised as a princeling. He behaves like one.

I have often ruminated lately that it is possible that the one silver lining of social media is the illumination of how juvenile and tribal the human race is. And that exposing this truth might lead to some wisdom that in turn helps us create more mature, rational institutions that drive fairer, more ecumenical behavior at some point down the road. The cynic in me says "nah" but the better angels of my nature are rooting for this outcome. One can only hope.