Tesla racism in the workplace is so bad it’s said to be shocking to people who grew up in America dealing with racism.

“I didn’t expect there to be that much racism, open racism in the job, even growing up in the South,” said Meadows, 41, who lived in Georgia. “For the company you work for to actually have it out in the open, it was shocking.”

The CEO of Tesla is a white man from South Africa who was raised under apartheid. His frequent unapologetic racist remarks and obsession with the fraud of “white replacement” translate into a company intentionally driving American race relations backwards to the 1970s or earlier.