Review: Am I Racist?

Matt Walsh is at it again

The Daily Wire has been slowly building up an outsider movie studio, and not a moment too soon. They released a couple of titles on their own site as streaming films but now, they’ve released their first feature film, a “mockumentary” called Am I Racist?

The first thing to know about the movie is that it’s funny. It’s funnier than Lady Ballers, though only those who have seen that movie will recognize the character Matt Walsh plays in the film — the man-bun guru type from Lady Ballers:

Despite the fact that he’s often the target of online rage mobs — he’s hated for his views on everything from marriage to transgender ideology to every other thing that drives the Left insane. But he’s funny. They can’t say he’s not funny. I have listened to Matt Walsh’s show off and on and it never fails to make me laugh in some way.

Am I Racist begins with Matt Walsh using a fake name and infiltrating a group therapy session for white people to purge their guilt. Here is a clip from the opening scene:

But what this clip doesn’t show is everything that comes before the moment they discover he’s actually Matt Walsh and not a man there to purge his white guilt. Believe it or not, those people sitting in the circle are real people. The filmmakers told them they were filming a movie about “social justice,” so they had no idea that the camera crew was part of Walsh’s production.

It’s funny to watch them observing Matt Walsh’s strange behavior. They want to be polite because he’s presumably one of them. They seem to think there might be something wrong with him. But of course, he was found out in the above clip.

That leads him to change the way he looks, to wear a disguise, and become the man-bun guy we saw in Lady Ballers. Then, he was able to pretend better.

He infiltrates the famous “Race to Dinner” group and films that too but this time is disguised as a waiter:

And he manages to get the White Fragility author, Robin DiAngelo, to sit for an interview for $15,000.

After the movie, DiAngelo released a statement:

Am I Racist is a rumination on the idea that all of us white people are racists and that America is a “white supremacist” country and that pushing back against any of it means you are a racist.

He trolls people in Washington DC about replacing the Washington Monument with the George Floyd monument. He re-enacts the Jussie Smollett, “This is MAGA country” episode. And eventually, he becomes an “antiracist” grifter himself and manages to attract a classroom full of people looking to purge themselves of their “internalaized racism.”

Walsh is not someone out to destroy the lives of ordinary people. He has compassion for almost everyone in the film and ultimately arrives at a useful conclusion and that is - can’t we just see each other as human beings again? Everyone should see this movie and decide for themselves what they think about it. And, in fact, they should play it high schools. They won’t but they should.

The benefit of this movie is to offer up an alternative viewpoint, something Hollywood used to do without fear but now would never do. It’s important for our younger generations to have someone, anyone offer them some critical thinking about the doctrine they’re forcing upon us. That is what art can do and what comedy can do.

As of today, the film has come in fourth at the box office (but third if you count per-theater average). That looks like they can now call themselves a legit movie studio, not that Hollywood or the mainstream critics will allow them “into the club.” We’ve seen what they’ve done to elbow out any competition, like Sound of Freedom. But if The Daily Wire can keep making movies that make money they won’t be ignored for long.