2024-09-25
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The woman has a confession to make.
Over an elegant dinner,
she admits to her companions that sometimes when she is out with her husband and he is really loud,
she shushes him.
A normal exchange within a marriage, one might think.
But she is white and he is black.
Her impulse, she worries, is probably my white supremacy talking.
The scene appears in the new mockumentary Am I Racist by Matt Walsh.
A conservative podcaster and filmmaker, Mr Walsh, once, he has said,
to expose the so-called anti-racist hustle of the diversity,
equity and inclusion movement.
Among the interviews and gags in the film, some outrageous or funny, others silly,
this moment registers as poignant, an unsettling glimpse into a couple's life.
White supremacy appears to be harming a marriage that seems to be proof of racial progress.
Is that