With Am I Racist? conservative commentator Matt Walsh swiftly and entertainingly exposes the race-industry for the crazy charlatan grift that it is.
Am I Racist? begins with a quote from anti-racist activist Ibram X. Kendi: “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.”
Such blabbering’s represent the philosophy of a race-industry that since the death of George Floyd has become a lucrative enterprise that sells bigotry and is buoyed by a sad segment of society wallowing in white guilt.
Into this horde of safe-space dwelling, racist spewing, poor paranoid soul’s ventures Matt Walsh, conservative commentator from the Daily Wire who became a household name after the 2022 documentary What Is a Woman. Yet with such notoriety comes a lack of anonymity, leading to Walsh to transform into his woke spouting, skinny jeans wearing, ponytail displaying alter-ego. And beware: he is DEI certified.
With director Justin Folk (No Safe Spaces) and his crew always in tow, Walsh plays the part of ally and activist to infiltrate a world where discrimination and self-hatred is preached like gospel, which in this case takes the form of the book “White Fragility” by Robyn DiAngelo. In one of the best scenes in Am I Racist?, Walsh meets DiAngelo and convinces her to pay reparations to his black producer who is given a meager $30 in cash. Surely a best-selling author who charges thousands for personal appearances could have given more.
Such is the beauty of Am I Racist?; Walsh knows that the best way to disprove a rotten ideology is to expose it (and those who subscribe to it) to the stark light of reality which – in true vampiric blood sucking fashion – crumbles away into dust.
Am I Racist? does so not only with shrewd strategy and fearless provocation, but also with an unflinching sense-of-humour that suitably represents how much of a joke – albeit a dangerous joke – these anti-racist grifters are.