AM I A RACIST?
(director/writer: Justin Folk; screenwriters: Brian Hoffman, Matt Walsh, Dallas Sonnier; cinematographer: Anton Seim; editor: Marshall Lee; music: Mitch Lee; cast: Matt Walsh, Robin DiAngelo, Regina Jackson, Sairo Rao, Katie Slater; Runtime: 101; MPAA Rating: PG-13; producers: Charlotte Roland, Brian Hoffman, Matt Walsh; SDG Releasing; 2024)
“A provocative Borat-like comedic documentary for the right-wingers.”
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
A provocative Borat-like comedic documentary for right-wingers. It’s directed by Justin Folk (“What is a Woman?”/”No Safe Spaces”) and stars the conservative Daily Wire columnist, podcaster and political activist Matt Walsh. It attempts to be humorous by Walsh are not funny or insightful. The confrontational political film shows various ways white liberals feel guilty over racial matters and shows how race baiting has peaked since the death of the Black George Floyd at the hands of white cop brutality over his arrest.
Folk co-writes it with Brian Hoffman, Matt Walsh, and Dallas Sonnier, as the Daily Wire delivers with righteous gusto this popular anti-DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) film. It points out how DEI has become an industry of dividing Americans for profit. To prove his point Walsh signs up for DEI training and on assignment goofs over its phoniness to deal in a real way with racism.
Walsh uses disguises as a liberal to play a DEI activist while infiltrating a world where self-hatred over being a member of white privilege is the white man’s gospel. It uses the book “White Fragility” by Robyn DiAngelo to make its case of how disturbingly woke the country has become. In one scene Walsh meets DiAngelo and convinces her to pay reparations to his black producer who is given a meager $30 in cash.
It’s only joke that made me laugh is when Walsh comments when asked what makes him most proud of his relationship with Blacks and he says “I’ve been complimented on the number of Black friends I have. It’s 17.”
REVIEWED ON 10/2/2024 GRADE: B-
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