Conservative politico, podcaster, media personality and provocateur Matt Walsh is on a mission to answer a complicated question in the forthcoming documentary The Justin Folk-directed film, described as a “social experiment,” comes from and Digital Astronaut and will mark the company’s first theatrical launch for an in-house production with distribution handled by SDG Releasing. To introduce the doc, Daily Wire dropped a trailer on Tuesday that finds Walsh on said mission as he attends anti-racism workshops, crashes private intellectual dinner parties and conducts sit-down interviews with experts and everyday Americans alike on the fiery subject, all the while playing the role of “a bumbling, zealous DEI trainee,” per Daily Wire. One such expert is author Robin DiAngelo who penned “Growing up in the ‘90s, you never thought much about race.
Sure, you noticed but it never really seemed to matter that much — at least not to me,” Walsh says in a voiceover as the trailer opens. Then Walsh is seen speaking to a woman who reminds him that being a white, straight, cisgender man means he’s at the top of the pile. He then asks a group of people, “Am I racist?” As a way to find an answer, Walsh sets off on his undercover mission.
“If I’m going to sort this out, I need to go deeper undercover. If I want to be an ally, I need to look like one.” Walsh then dresses the part by putting on a tweed blazer, changing his glasses and wearing a wig with ponytail in a .