Like the late Christopher Hitchens who only discovered his Jewish roots once he had moved to New York in the early Eighties, Donald Sterling has also had a revelation and is advertising the fact that he’s Jewish. For any of you who might not be aware who Sterling is, he was born Tokowitz 80 years ago but changed his name to Sterling to sound ritzier. He is a slum landlord who evicts poor women, began his career selling second-hand furniture to blacks and Hispanics, is as disgusting a man as you hope never to meet, and is, since a week ago, the most reviled man in America. His crime: telling a black girlfriend, who insists the relationship is platonic — one who has been arrested four times, however, and the recipient of at least 1.8 million big ones from Sterling — not to bring black people to LA Clippers basketball games, a team he owns, or rather owned. She taped him and is being investigated for selling the goods after he refused to meet her price.
Since the storm broke, Sterling has revealed his Jewish roots, hoping that Hollywood will come to his aid. No dice. When it comes to race, the Hollywood sharks may lack talent but they make up for it in PC. They know that the crap they put out about zombies and science fiction and child-abusing priests and Nazi southern folk is watched by 25-year-old-and-under black men, so the last thing they wish to do is alienate this group. What is shocking is that not a single voice has dared point out that Donald Sterling has not had his day in court and has been railroaded by the media, in cahoots with race hustlers and other busybodies. By forcing him to sell the team he owns and imposing a $2.5

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