Conservative commentator Matt Walsh’s movie “Am I Racist” is a hybrid of mockumentary in the tradition of “Spinal Tap” and his signature ironic take on the inanities of our age.
Walsh’s message in “Am I Racist?” is simple: Although racism in America is a faint ghost of its historic self – as Professor Wilfred Reilly told Walsh, the demand for racism in America today greatly exceeds the supply – an industry of consultants make a living by pretending otherwise and stirring up interracial animosity.
This leads some white people to feel bad for things they generally haven’t done. And it leads some blacks and other racial minorities to feel aggrieved for things they generally haven’t experienced.
“Am I Racist?” is a production of Walsh’s employer, The Daily Wire, an expanding media company built on the popular news and commentary of Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, Walsh, and others.
The Daily Wire team also has produced television shows and films, including the comedy “Lady Ballers”and Walsh’s first documentary “What Is a Woman?” Both films take on, and take apart, gender ideology.
America’s race-industrial complex of workshops, training, and group atonement has been there for decades, but went supernova after the May 2020 death of George Floyd, a black man, in police custody.
Since then, assisted by COVID-19 shut-ins, urban riots, and corporate virtue-signaling........