The three year prison sentence, with one year suspended, handed down to Vicki Momberg in late March for a racist rant vividly encapsulates the outright ridiculousness and sheer derangement of life in contemporary South Africa. Not only is this farcical conviction for racism, technically under the highly elastic concept of “crimen injuria,” a complete waste of state resources, which would be far better directed at apprehending rapists and murderers, but has grave implications for free speech. Furthermore, there is a stark and worrying double standard at play in this politically motivated prosecution as some prominent black politicians have made overtly genocidal threats against whites, repeatedly in the case of racist fascist EFF leader Julius Malema, yet no action has been taken against them. I go on to make an unequivocal defence of fundamental free speech rights, the cornerstone value, or master key, that makes all the others possible, and is indispensable for enabling a society to continually conduct a conversation among its members as to the best way to organise social life. Lastly, I consider the best arguments in favour of jailing someone for racist speech acts, but dispatch these quite comfortably.