What were CNN and MSNBC doing while Russia Today was broadcasting an interview with Ehud Barack about the breakdown of “peace talks” between Israelis and Palestinians, Fox News was covering a breakthrough in DNA research, and BBC News was keeping viewers abreast of event in Syria and Ukraine?

The conga-lines of cretins at the two networks were fulminating over a racially charged private conversation between one Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, and his mistress du jour.

On the positive side, the Sterling vignette distracted CNN fleetingly from a non-stop, no-news vigil for the missing Malaysian Airline. “Breaking News: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is still missing” has provided perfect cover for a “news” operation that has refused to cover the many failures and scandals of Barack Hussein Obama’s presidency.

I listened to the recordings of Sterling’s comments. (What option did I have?) I heard an odious old man nagging an equally off-putting woman. She is asked to refrain from publicly flaunting her relationships with black athletes. “Cavort all you wish behind my back,” Sterling seemed to be saying, “but don’t embarrass me in public.” What I heard was a decrepit degenerate demanding that the sanctimonious slut whose life he was sponsoring spare his manhood; an octogenarian threatened by prowess he lacked. Also clear was that the mistress with whom this unpleasant man had been fraternizing was engaged in an entrapment operation.

From abroad, another repugnant character refused to rise above the fray and stick to the issues on his teleprompter. Never uttered by the president were sobering, uniting words such as, “In the US, we don’t hound people for the things they say, anywhere.” Instead, broadcasting from Malaysia (whose majority population has been known to launch perennial pogroms on their One Percenters), Obama demonstrated the extent to which he follows petty racial politicking in this country, and the lengths to which he’ll go to perpetuate the mythical meme of a racist America. Puled the president:

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk. That’s what happened here… Sterling’s alleged comments are an example of how the United States continues to wrestle with the legacy of race and slavery and segregation.

Like CNN, MSNBC had hardly reported on a “conflict that has roiled the country”—Cliven Bundy’s “mutiny against the federal government.” The operatives there rectified the failure right away when Bundy made his racial blunder. From paying scant attention to the conflagration between farmers and federal forces, MSNBC switched to a blow-by-blow account of Bundy’s speech infraction. “Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy Doesn’t Apologize, Repeats Racist Remarks,” “Bundy’s Blunder,” blared the headlines.

Needless to say, the same pattern of heightening emotion, manufacturing buzz, and distracting the easily distracted from reality and reason colored CNN’s belated reporting in Farmer Bundy vs. the Feds. Thus did anchor Brook Baldwin entertain commentator Paul Begala for a segment aimed not at informing CNN viewers about land seizures across the country and excessive use of federal force; but so as to strategically deploy Bundy’s alleged racism against Republicans, some of whom had concerned themselves with the aforementioned transgressions. (In fairness to Begala and Brook, neither is working with much.)

When it comes to the original sin—harboring impure racial thoughts—members of the chattering class, “conservatives” as much as liberals, trip over one another to express their disgust. So it was with the comments of the inconsequential, ill-mannered Sterling. Another dominant paradigm over which right and left converge in agreement is the Marxist Labor Theory of Value. How dare that drek—and Sterling is drek, on that all are agreed—claim to have supported, fed, clothed and housed the NBA athletes on his team. What a plantation mentality! But unless one is down with Karl Marx, Sterling is correct. Marx’s “demonstrably false” Labor Theory of Value disregards the infusion of seed capital necessary to launch and sustain an enterprise, privileging the role of labor in the production process.

No sooner had the old git opened his mouth to speak rudely than legions of sinewy sportsmen were parading their pain on camera, shedding tears and telling of psyches shattered and hearts broken. Hey, unlike Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, I didn’t cry when Mel Gibson maligned Jews. Ditto Kanye West, upon whom the ADL has alighted for his riffs about us Jews. So long as they have no power over my life, why do I care what idiots say? Direct your ire, rather, not at Citizen Sterling, but at the flourishing political class, whose overweening, hateful ways shatter actual lives daily.

It was not long before another CNN simpleton, anchor-cum-vigilante Fredricka Whitfield, was soliciting legal advice on how to dispossess the thought-criminal of his property: The NBA Team. Warned Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban:

… regardless of your background, regardless of the history they have, if we’re taking something somebody said in their home and we’re trying to turn it into something that leads to you being forced to divest property in any way, shape or form, that’s not the United States of America. I don’t want to be part of that.

Let us hope that no legal remedy is pulled out of the proverbial hat to silence or rob Sterling and similar offenders. For then, we are China, only less industrious.

Rest assured, however, that the racial merry-go-round is made-in-America. Round and round will Americans be compelled to ride on a mindless, manufactured, racial carousel. For this is about sustaining the thing Afrikaner philosopher Dan Roodt has dubbed “Metaphysical Racism.” Although “few people in the US have had any direct experience of racism, they nevertheless discern racism in other people’s body language, in their use of euphemisms or in being patronized by others,” explains Roodt.

The US is “married to metaphysical racism forever.” Perceived racism can be “public, private, postmodern, subliminal, imagined, symbolic,” anything, so long as it survives in some form or another, for without it, the edifice of an industry built upon grievance and excuse-making is destined to collapse.

“Like sin,” says Roodt, “metaphysical racism is insurmountable.” It “is the real motor of history.”

Philosopher Dan Roodt, Ph.D., is a noted Afrikaner activist, author, literary critic and director of PRAAG. He is the author of the polemical essay, “The Scourge of the ANC.” I spoke to Dr. Roodt about two recent show trials: that of blade-runner Oscar Pistorius and that of the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling.

ILANA MERCER: There’s an elephant in the courtroom in which Oscar Pistorius is being tried for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. It is the unidirectional, black-on-black and black-on-white violent crime in South Africa. The fear of being butchered was likely behind the blade runner’s irrational, irresponsible actions. I had hoped that Pistorius would speak up. For all his privilege, Pistorius knows the rapacity and invincibility of the criminal class in his country. Like every other Afrikaner, he knew in his gut what infiltrating gangs would do to a legless Boer. The world is praising the proceedings in that court. However, “making sport of a caged animal that has confessed” is how a South African reader described this courtroom Colosseum. What do you think?

DAN ROODT: I largely agree with that. One of the columnists on our Praag.org site described the trial as a “canned hunt and a legal travesty.” Most people watching it probably do not know that only 8 percent of murder cases in South Africa result in a conviction, so killers have a 92 percent chance of literally getting away with murder! South Africa is both the murder and especially the rape capital of the world. Usually the statistics are massaged in such a way that only murder proper, called “first-degree murder” in the United States, is included in the absolute number of murders. But if one also counts other homicides with a lesser culpability, we are the world champions, even above India’s 43,000 homicides. But, of course, India has over 1 billion people, whereas we have just over 50 million. Even for first-degree murder, we have more of those per year (16,000) than the U.S. (14,000) which has six times our population.

Regarding the court procedures, Pistorius is spending a lot of money on his legal team and the state is using an experienced Afrikaner prosecutor, Gerrie Nel. However, there has been large-scale affirmative action applied to the appointment of judges, so that many of them lack the knowledge of the law and the experience to do their job properly. In many cases, black offenders, especially, get off very lightly and in practice do not serve more than ten years for first-degree murder. The government is also applying pressure on lawyers to apply affirmative action in their own ranks as most of the top-level senior lawyers or advocates, as we call them, are still white. They are preferred by the big-spending corporate clients in civil cases, especially. A lawyer friend of mine recently told me of one tedious corporate court case in Pretoria that has lasted ten years and consumed $5 million in legal fees, also swallowing up her whole life. Ironically, even the president, Jacob Zuma—who has had more than 500 charges of corruption against him and was also accused of rape in December 2005—used white Afrikaner lawyers to get him off, using their technical knowledge of the law and court procedures.

There is also rampant corruption in the criminal justice system, with policemen and petty court officials being bribed to make documents and evidence disappear, so the kind of televised court-room soap opera of the Pistorius trial is not at all representative of the vicissitudes of the average trial. Unlike in the U.S., South Africa does not collect crime statistics broken down by race anymore, but we know that the vast majority of prison inmates serving time for violent crime are black. White offenders—which include white-collar crimes like fraud or insider trading—only constitute 1.8 percent of the prison population, while whites make up under 10 percent of the total population. A recent reliable survey showed that whites are disproportionately victims of house robberies, constituting about 50 percent of the victims, while the perpetrators are almost invariably black.

The image of South African blacks disseminated by the global media is of a population of kind-hearted, forgiving people like Mandela, whereas the reality demonstrates something entirely different. There is something inexplicably sadistic about murders and assaults by black perpetrators on their white victims in South Africa, which often include lengthy and dehumanizing torture sessions, mutilation of bodies, sexual violence, and so on. Often the victims are children, including toddlers and babies. Every week we read about farm murders in the press where the victims are normally elderly white farmers, regularly ambushed on a Sunday morning when they return from church attendance.

MERCER: The South African Constitution, naturally, sanctions the prosecution of individuals based on the things they say. Conversely, Americans are supposed to enjoy a constitutional right to speak freely. The freedom gap is, however, narrowing. The establishment—politicians, journalists, jurists, educators and academics; “conservatives” as much as liberals—trip over one another in a collectivist, concerted effort to ruin an “offender.” The latest individual to be crucified for committing America’s original sin—harboring impure racial thoughts—is Donald Sterling. You’ve written that, while “few people in the U.S. have had any direct experience of racism, they nevertheless discern racism in other people’s body language, in their use of euphemisms or in being patronized by others.” Explain how this “Metaphysical Racism” now works as an “engine of history.”

ROODT: Unfortunately, ever since the 1960s, South Africa has been influenced by America in a very bad way. Instead of looking to the U.S. for lessons in self-reliance, the right to self-defense, or how to finance start-up tech companies, we have simply imported your liberal, pathological political correctness. That includes the sensitivity around language and terms with a racial connotation. I cannot begin to tell you how many words there are in South Africa to describe people of various races including, of course, pejorative terms. I seem to recall that my generation was very sensitive to using some of those words and there was a famous case in 1978 when the old government’s censors banned a satirical novel entitled Magersfontein o Magersfontein! for containing a piece of dialogue in which the word “kaffir” was used in an ironic way. This is our equivalent to what you call the “N-word” in the U.S. In print these days, most people here also refer to the “K-word,” as there is just such a taboo against using it. However, if you go to any school playground or university campus in South Africa, young whites are using it as a way of rebelling against the system. How long this will last, I do not know, because the government and mainstream, politically correct society are clamping down on it and even giving people suspended prison sentences for a first offense after being found guilty of using the “K-word.”

So in South Africa you can torture an elderly white lady and maybe get away with it, but you will be prosecuted for speechcrime for using racial epithets. I would not be surprised if all telephone conversations will be monitored, NSA-style, at some point in the future to ensnare those who use so-called racist language. When it comes to “metaphysical racism,” that is at a far more subtle level. Someone who first alerted me to this was the documentary filmmaker Craig Bodeker from Denver, Colorado, with his piece “A Conversation About Race.” Many people in the film say that “racism is everywhere,” surrounding us like sin or some invisible element. Also in “A Conversation About Race,” I learned that some American blacks think that a compliment from a white could be a sign of racism. So either an insult or a compliment could be construed as racism.

In South Africa, some of the liberal commentators such as Steven Friedman claim that blacks were damaged by apartheid and therefore cannot be expected to perform at the same level as whites. In the U.S., this claim is made about slavery; that the insidious effects of slavery are still present, which would explain the academic achievement gap, but also differences in wealth and income. Colonialism also comes into it, as far as other African countries are concerned. The fact that Africa has remained underdeveloped for so long is almost always blamed on colonialism, notwithstanding that it was colonialism that had introduced Africa to the wheel and to writing, not to forget science and technology!

Whereas about a decade ago, the British magazine The Economist had described Africa as “the hopeless continent,” it now sees Africa as a fast-growing continent, not very different from countries like China, Hong Kong or South Korea. Even Goldman Sachs thinks that Africa will soon be a developed continent competing on an even keel with Europe, North America or Asia. The flipside of the new optimism about Africa, including South Africa, is that every failure or missed growth target is somehow backwardly rationalized in terms of racism, colonialism and apartheid. In short, “metaphysical racism.” So even when it comes to technology, the economy and education, there is always a cloud of racism somewhere that the developed world has to address by offering aid money or some form of expiatory confession from Western leaders.

I always wonder: If Africa is now standing on its own two feet and growing so fast, why do so many countries still need development aid? Why do South African blacks still need affirmative action, including racial quotas in sport?