Black Guy Reviews 'Am I Racist' Film by Matt Walsh

Well is he racist?

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My friend asked me to see “Am I racist?” by Matt Walsh. I don’t think I can be friends with him anymore—end of review.

I was close to hitting send on that paragraph because I just want to go outside and throw a football around today. 

But I guess I’ll tell you what I think.

“Am I Racist?” marks the debut film release from the conservative media outlet, the Daily Wire, co-founded by Ben Shapiro.

The film stars right-wing commentator Matt Walsh, who embarks on a Borat-like undercover journey to reveal what he claims is a scam-like profiteering anti-(white) racism industry.

Think Ibram X Kendi and Robin DiAngelo (who appears in the film).

This movie has pissed a lot of Redditors and left-wingers off.

Here’s what I thought of it.

Is Anti-Whiteness a Scam?

A little preamble: I saw this film with my Asian friend at a theater in Denver’s affluent Cherry Creek area.

I was the only black person in the theater.

And to my surprise, the theater was packed!

Denver is an extremely blue city, which I witnessed the weekend before at a debate party with chants for Kamala Harris and loud jeers for Trump reminiscent of a Super Bowl crowd.

I only include all this because some controversy around this film involves who’s buying tickets to see it. 

So far, my fav part of this movie is the absolute meltdown at /r/MovieTheaterEmployees. It has made for some great memes.

On to the movie. The film “Am I Racist?” aims to rewind the clock on woke culture, revisiting a pre-2010s mindset where the focus was on equality and equal opportunity for all races.

To do this, Walsh infiltrates the “woke” movement as a liberal Shaggy from Scooby Doo lookalike to catch these anti-racist and DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) instructors in the act of their chicanery.

It’s a lot like Impractical Jokers or Nathan for You.

He’s trying to get these DEI instructors to hang themselves with their own ideology, and he does a good job of that.

At one point, Walsh convinces Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility, to pay his black cameraman 30 bucks in reparations. It’s pretty sad.

Walsh explains that if she believes in reparations, she should pay black people in cash today. 

Almost every single person they interviewed has deactivated their Twitter.

Conservative looking Matt on top, Hippie Matt on bottom with Robin DiAngelo

In another part, he poses as a DEI expert on a Utah morning show, guiding the hosts through a series of stretch moves to dispel their racist energy.

The film also has a section where they bring in a woman who, I swear, looks exactly like Jada Pinkett, who sued Sesame Place for racial discrimination after a character ignored her child.

So what should you make of all of this?

It was fine. The movie was fine.

Conservative films usually suck ass. This was decent. 

While I had a few laughs, the conservative folks in the audience seemed to find it hilarious, belly-laughing for the entire film. 

I did make everyone who saw it in that theater shake my hand afterward.

If you don’t know anything about DEI, maybe you should watch this movie. Clearly, in 2024, the anti-racist industry has jumped the shark.

But I don’t believe most people are racist like the film sets out to prove; I don’t even believe in systemic racism. As John McWhorter, a liberal black man, once said, “The problem with these phrases is that systems, structures and institutions cannot be racist any more than they can be happy or sad.”

To make a long story short, when I made a long story long, I believe systems often lead to problems through unintended consequences, yet the term “systemic racism” implies everything is system-wide, ignoring personal choices and community factors. There’s nuance between “the system is rigged” and “it’s all your fault.”

My problem with “Am I Racist?” is the crowd that has any interest in watching it already agrees with everything in the movie. The crowd that will never watch it already disagrees with everything in the movie. People with far-right or far-left viewpoints will never change.

What’s the point of this film? To make Daily Wire more money?

I Feel Bad For Robin DiAngelo

I’ve read parts of Robin DiAngelo’s book White Fragility and often thought she was the enemy of black people.

That she wanted us to play victim without addressing the real issues in my community like health, financial literacy, and education.

But I felt bad for her in “Am I Racist.”

Although Walsh’s reparations act seemed designed for mockery — “HA! Look how dumb this lady is” —  I can see that she does want to help.

I’m glad her heart is in the right place, though I don’t believe in her logic.

The only bad actors I found in the film were these dinners hosted by political activists Saira Rao and Regina Jackson, who charge liberal white women to come to sit at dinners where they lecture them why they’re racist.

Seriously go watch that. It’s bizarre.

The whole premise of the movie “Am I Racist?” is predicated on the question “am I racist?” and in the end, Walsh answers it rather succinctly.

If you think you are racist and you do racist things and go out of your way to make people of other races upset, you are racist. If you have ever thought you were not racist, you’re more than likely not. You may be prejudiced by seeing someone of a skin color or ethnic background and coming to a conclusion about that person but that doesn’t make you racist.

But by that definition, not many people are racist; how is anyone supposed to make any money?

And if that definition offends you, I suggest looking at how much the media has increased its usage of the words “racist” and “Racisim” since 2000.

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Now, I did just post a story titled “Why Black People Should Vote More Republican” (though if you actually read it, I’m not saying they should vote for Trump; just stop giving up our votes so easily to liberals), but this to say I’m not having some coming out for Republicans.

I don’t even think Matt Walsh is that clever a guy.

One of my favorite liberal commentators, Ryan Grim, tore him a new one over the situation in Haiti and how America and France caused it. 

For now, I’m a political homeless man. Political no-fap.

So yeah, the movie was fine. Give it a watch if you want to. Time to go play some football! YES!

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I edited this story to Aphex Twin’s “aisatsana [102]”