*The prank gods are smiling down at Matt Walsh, as the podcaster tricked ‘White Fragility’ author Robin DiAngelo into coming out of pocket in doing her part to pay reparations to a black producer.
The New York Post reports DiAngelo was under the impression her payment was going to support an upcoming documentary from Walsh titled “Am I Racist?”
Like his 2022 documentary, “What Is a Woman?” examined gender ideology through a critical lens, Walsh’s latest project found him going undercover and pretending to examine his soul while investigating the racist movement and its followers. Going undercover for the assignment, Walsh persuaded DiAngelo to bring her payment to his producer Ben to compensate for sins of the past after producing the money himself.
Before asking for the money, Walsh posed as an activist, interviewing DiAngelo for a documentary project while pretending to make anti-racist sentiments. Ben was later brought in after Walsh finished up with most of his questions.
“This is Ben, a producer on the film. I thought it would be a powerful opportunity to speak directly to a person of color and confront our racism and also, apologize for the white supremacist systems that oppress Ben,” Walsh began.
Never suspecting the situation was a ruse, DiAngelo took the bait, saying, “On behalf of myself and my fellow white people, I apologize — it is not you, it is us. As long as I’m standing, I will do my best to challenge it.”
From there, Walsh announced that he would pay Ben reparations if he would accept it, prompting his producer to quip, “I mean, I won’t turn it down.” Ben stated, at which Walsh handed him money and a few bills from his wallet.
“That doesn’t make up for 400 years of oppression, but it’s all that I have to give,” the 38-year-old prankster said.
Walsh wasn’t the only one in on the prank. For his part, Ben went fully in on the deceit, saying that he doesn’t “know if it’s ever enough” while giving Walsh credit for “putting in the work” and acknowledging the “small progress I think we made today.”
“That was really weird,” a perplexed and nearly speechless DiAngelo gasped before coming up with a response after Walsh asked, “Did you wanna pay any—? I think reparations is like a systemic dynamic and approach,” the best-selling author added. “I mean I think there may be some people who would be offended by [that].”
As the interaction continued, Walsh remained in character displaying a solemn look and stressing the need to allow “ourselves to be uncomfortable.” He underscored,
“This is something that I can do right now” he voiced, asking, “Why wouldn’t I do it?”
DiAngelo ultimately relented, sharing that she “can go get some cash for sure,”
“I don’t mind if that would be something that would be comfortable for you,” she said.
With Ben’s blessing, DiAngelo gave him all the cash she had, which was roughly $30.
“Thanks,” a smiling Ben replied.
DiAngelo wasn’t the only one Walsh tricked into giving up funds. As seen in “Am I Racist?” the filmmaker brings his dedication to the cause to liberal white women attending a high-dollar Race2Dinner event. It was there that he got the women at the table to raise their glasses and toast to “being racist.”
The Post noted that DiAngelo’s donation came after Walsh explained who he was earlier in the documentary, with the reasoning being that the writer “has to be careful.”
For those that don’t know, DiAngelo’s book “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” made the New Times bestseller list after its 2018 release.
The success of the book resulted in DiAngelo being labeled a so-called anti-bias training expert, with her claiming that “White people raised in Western society are conditioned into a white supremacist worldview because it is the bedrock of our society and its institutions.” This way of plagiarizing passages from minority scholars in her doctoral thesis, according to a complaint obtained
Walsh’s “Am I Racist?” documentary is out now in movie theaters.
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