FILM REVIEW: ‘Am I Racist?’

Last week, I gave high praise to Reagan, the new movie looking at the life of America’s greatest Cold Warrior. It was a heartfelt, meticulous look at Reagan’s fundamental decency and love for America. Today, I’m giving high praise to Matt Walsh’s Am I Racist?, a new movie looking at the race hustling industry. It is a hysterically funny, pointed, and appropriately vicious look at people, both black and white, who deliberately promote racial discord for power and huge profits.

The movie’s premise is a simple one: Matt Walsh embarks upon a journey to discover whether he is a racist and, if he is, how to defeat that inherent racism and then pass on the knowledge he acquires. Along the way, Walsh attends seminars, interviews people knowledgeable about America’s alleged racism, has an elaborate Jussie Smollett fantasy, gets Robin DiAngelo to dig into her purse to offer private reparations (she seems to prefer reparations coming from taxpayers), and reveals the views of ordinary Americans of all colors who aren’t immersed in self-loathing or the long racial con.

The trailer, which has been playing for weeks, gives you a good idea about the movie’s basic premise:

I must admit that having watched the trailer, I was a little concerned that the movie would offer no real surprises. After all, we’ve all seen trailers that gather the best bits of a mediocre movie so that you walk out of the theater regretting the money you spent. I shouldn’t have worried.

The movie runs for an hour and forty minutes, and every one of those minutes is a delightful surprise. I don’t recall any comedy I’ve seen recently—heck, any comedy I’ve seen in years—that made me laugh so hard.

For those of you who know Walsh through his podcast, where he opines about the issues of the day, or even from What Is A Woman?, you’ll see a comedic side of him that you never imagined existed.

What Walsh does is create a persona—a touchy-feely, emotional, well-meaning anti-racist with a little manbun who has absorbed everything from Ibram X. Kendi to Robin DiAngelo—and he never drops that persona for a minute. This is true whether he’s attending or giving “anti-racist” seminars, acting as a server at an “anti-racist” dinner party, talking to DiAngelo herself, or speaking to ordinary people about race.

Much of the film is DEI meetings or seminars, and attendees at such things would not be surprised to see the meeting filmed. Undoubtedly the Daily Wire lawyers were extremely careful to write releases by these simpletons that cover footage of them being used in a theatrical film. Walsh has been saying in his show that a lot of people would be unpleasantly surprised to see them evokes in this film and, per your post, that is happening.

In a just world, the two women who put on the “Race 2
Dinner” would find themselves out of business and begging for their next dinner in the street. We’ll see

I went to see it last night.

There were maybe 30 people in the theater. At 6 PM. On a Thursday. In my neck of the woods that is many more than I’ve seen in other showings at that time.

I’ve not been to a movie where the audience laughed out loud, in unison, in a long, long time. Some of the scenes were “outrageous” and the “anti racist” targets were just buffoons.

Whenever he encounter the “white women” and some men who bought into this crap, they came across as liberal wives with too much money and too little sense.

The scene with the author of “White Fragility” was a masterwork. First in his destroying her theories of what a white person should do to be non-racist. But then he embarrassed her into giving cash to one of his black “grips.” It was laugh out loud hilarious.

Obviously, Matt did a bunch of editing and there were likely many people who agreed that all of the race baiting was BS. But the whole concept of ridicule (espoused by Alinsky) is to hang them on their own petard. And Walsh did that very well.

I highly recommend everyone make the time to go see it this weekend. I doubt they will let it play in theaters very long. LOL.

I’m White.
Therefore, I’m a racist.

I’m a man.
Therefore, I’m a sexist.

I’m married to a natural XX woman.
Therefore I’m both homophobic and transphobic.

I’m a Christian.
Therefore I’m both islamophobic and antisemitic.

Don’t.

Care.

To HELL with all the “isms” and “phobias” and the braying jackasses who fear-monger about them.

Oh hell, I am all kinds of evil.
Eagle Scout.
USMC veteran.
Married to the same woman for 34 years.
Hunt, Fish, camp and cook what I kill.
Have lots of firearms and know how to use them.
I know welding, carpentry, plumbling.
Raised two straight Catholic children.
No tats or piercings.
Have no debt.
Know how to grow all kinds of vegetables and how to cook large cuts of meat.
Drive a Toyota truck
No gay boy beard, but a real one.
Ignore the media and am a proud member of FR.

That about covers it.

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