Matt Walsh goes undercover; finds anti-racist cult members ‘truly believe’ they must ‘atone for their white sins’



If you’re white, then apparently, you’re a racist — at least according to the anti-racism social justice movement that’s taken knitting circles by storm.

The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh set out to discover why that is for his new film, “Am I Racist?” where he goes undercover as a “certified DEI expert” and gets incredible insight from the leaders in the anti-racism industry.

He was a little surprised with what he found — but not when it came to the leaders.

“I wasn’t really surprised by the grifter types and the things that they said was kind of what I expected them to say,” Walsh tells Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable.” “Although, still quite disturbing to sit in the room and hear it.”

“The people that are getting sucked into this scam, into this cult, I was a little surprised by the fact that many of them to me seemed more genuine than I thought,” he explains, adding, “They’re true believers.”

When he originally started out, he was under the impression that most of what these followers are doing is simply virtue signaling.

“I think it’s more like 10% virtue signaling and 90% they believe it,” he explains. “They really think that they need to do this somehow to atone for their white sins. And I guess I was surprised by that.”

“Do you think that the 90%, that they are trying to punish themselves or do you think they’re truly hopeful that somehow they’re going to be able to break out of this supposedly white supremacist system and do good for marginalized communities?” Stuckey asks.

“I think it’s a little bit of both, but I do think there’s a kind of spiritual component to it,” he responds. “You can only go so far psychoanalyzing these people, but I do think that they walk around with guilt.”

They carry a guilt that would otherwise be washed clean through belief in Jesus Christ, but instead it follows them everywhere they go, as they are often not religious.

So they’re following a new religion.

“If you don’t have that religion, if you’re a secular person, then I think you still have the guilt,” Walsh explains. “But you have no way of understanding it. You have no framework for understanding it. So I think that these kind of anti-racist grifters come along and they say, ‘OK, well, you’re feeling this way, and I’ll tell you why you’re feeling it.’”

“‘It’s because you’re white, and here’s all the things you can do with this burden of guilt that you carry to be relieved of it,'" he continues. "Then of course, after they do it, they’re given the bad news that ‘OK, well good job for doing that, but you’re still just as racist as you were before.’”


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Incendiary Olympian equates being paid as a professional athlete to slavery on ESPN series hosted by 'anti-racist' Ibram X. Kendi



A former Olympian delivered an eye-opening remark comparing professional sports contracts to slavery during an appearance on ESPN's new series hosted by "anti-racist" Ibram X. Kendi.

ESPN gave Kendi his own series titled "Skin in the Game," which "delves into and challenges racism in the sports world, and will reveal how pervasive racism is in sports, while challenging the thoughts and systems of various governing bodies."

The five-episode series features episodes sub-titled: "How Do Athletes Play a Role in Social Change?," "Are Black Women Athletes Carrying the Weight of the World?," "What is the Cost of Race Norming?," and "What is the Impact of Racist Ideas in Sports Media?"

The first episode aired on Sept. 20, in which Kendi "takes a look at black athletes who use public platforms to protest injustice and what it costs to speak up."

The episode featured former Olympian Gwendolyn Berry and journalist Howard Bryant.

Berry sparked outrage at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in June 2021, when she turned her back to the American flag during the podium ceremony.

"While the music played, Berry placed her left hand on her hip and fidgeted. She took a quarter turn, so she was facing the stands, not the flag. Toward the end, she plucked up her black T-shirt with the words 'Activist Athlete' emblazoned on the front, and draped it over her head," ESPN reported.

Berry – a hammer thrower – said at the time, "The anthem doesn't speak for me. It never has."

During her recent appearance on "Skin in the Game," Gwen Berry claimed that professional sports contracts are like "slave chains."

"It's almost like the contracts are the new slave chains," Berry said as Bryant nodded in agreement.

"You're binded to this. And then if you break that, that’s your livelihood, that’s your life. So we the new slaves – athletes are literally the new slaves. Because we need this. Our families, our friends depend on this contract to eat," asserted Berry – who was wearing a shirt that read: "Activist Athlete."

Kendi – who is wearing a shirt that reads: "The 1619 Project," and sitting in the room decorated with a black fist, and signs that read: "No Justice, No Peace" and "Black Lives Matter" – responded to Berry's slavery remark by saying, "Phew! Yep."

According to Campus Reform, Kendi ended the episode by saying, "Black athletes are supposed to compete for their countries, cities, and towns, but ignore the people suffering in them? Really Ignore the justice, violence, and inequity, and just keep on playing, as if they don’t feel, as if they don’t have skin in the game?"

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ESPN is owned by Disney. In July, The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger declared, "It's not our goal to be involved in a culture war."

On the same day that "Skin in the Game" premiered, Iger told investors that Disney would "quiet the noise" in a culture war following a months-long dispute with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

In 2021, Netflix aired "Colin in Black and White" – a six-part docudrama series where Colin Kaepernick recounts "his formative years navigating race, class, and culture while aspiring for greatness."

In one of the episodes, Kaepernick equates being an NFL player to slavery.

The laughable comparison was widely mocked by many, including Joe Rogan.

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CEO announces 11% cut to staff, promises 'anti-racist' layoffs



On Wednesday, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson issued a company-wide email announcing the reduction of staff by 11%. Lawson assured employees that the company would make firing decisions through an "Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens."

Founded in 2008, Twilio is a customer engagement software company. As of 2021, the company reportedly employed 7,867 staffers, according to CNBC. An 11% reduction in staff would mean job losses for over 800 Twilio employees, also referred to as "Twilions."

Co-founder and CEO Jeff Lawson's email announced the company's need to restructure and scale back staff to increase profitability. Lawson said that he takes responsibility for scaling up the business too quickly.

He called the decision to lay off staff "extremely difficult" but necessary to realign with Twilio's four priorities, including "investing in our platform reliability and trust, increasing the profitability of messaging, accelerating Segment adoption, and scaling the Flex customer base."

"Twilio has grown at an astonishing rate over the past couple years. It was too fast, and without enough focus on our most important company priorities. I take responsibility for those decisions, as well as the difficult decision to do this layoff," Lawson's email read.

The CEO addressed how Twilio has determined which staff to let go and stated the company implemented "a rigorous selection process to examine which roles were most tightly aligned to our four priorities."

"As you all know, we are committed to becoming an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression company. Layoffs like this can have a more pronounced impact on marginalized communities, so we were particularly focused on ensuring our layoffs – while a business necessity today – were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens," the email read.

Twilio employees who lost their positions in this round of layoffs will receive minimally 12 weeks of pay and a week of pay for every year they have been with the company. In addition, they will also receive the full value of the company's next stock vesting.

Lawson concluded, "I am confident that we'll look back at this as a difficult time – but one that set up Twilio well for the future."

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Netflix scraps multiple woke projects for 'creative' reasons — including 'Antiracist Baby' and 'Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You'



Netflix drew swift backlash from some progressive critics this week after news broke that the streaming service had pulled the plug on several woke animated projects.

What are the details?

Among the projects scrapped were Ava DuVernay’s "Antiracist Baby" with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi — an animated adaptation of the critical race theory author's book — and the hybrid documentary, "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You," Variety reported on Tuesday, citing sources at Netflix.

Another project by DuVernay, called "Wings of Fire," was also canceled. DuVernay is a film producer, well known for her work on "Selma," "13th," and "A Wrinkle in Time." She also co-created a Netflix series about Colin Kaepernick's life and experiences with racism, in which the former professional quarterback equated being an NFL player to slavery.

Kendi is an American author and critical race theory scholar who rose to national fame in recent years for his promulgation of anti-racist ideology derived from his book, "How to be an Antiracist."

Netflix has been forced to make several staff and budget cuts in recent days following a dismal start to the year that saw a net decline of 200,000 subscribers — its first subscriber decline in more than a decade. Those cuts included layoffs of an estimated 150 staffers, in addition to 70 more part-time staffers from its animation studio.

However, company sources reportedly told Variety that its decision to scrap the animated projects was made for "creative" rather than cost-related reasons, "meaning they would have taken place regardless of the company’s slower revenue growth," the outlet said.

What else?

That reasoning made matters worse for the streaming service in the eyes of progressive critics. In a scathing rebuke of the recent decisions, BIPOC news blog the Root accused the streaming service of disproportionately targeting black and other minority projects and staffers for cancellation.

"At this point, there probably isn’t any explanation that can be given when it comes to Black, Brown, Indigenous, AAPI and LGBTQ+ folks losing their livelihoods — especially when most of them were recruited for their expertise, experience and talents in the first place," the article stated.

The blog also claimed that Netflix's earlier staff layoffs predominantly affected minority workers.

"Most of the immensely talented folks who had been let go were BIPOC and/or members of the LGBTQ+ community who worked under several of the streamer’s popular arms dedicated to highlighting and promoting diverse content," it said.

Anything else?

The news comes as Netflix only recently issued a blunt statement to woke employees who wish to silence artists who produce content they find offensive.

In a stern update to its corporate culture memo last week, the company vowed not to cancel artists just because employees don't prefer their content.

"Not everyone will like — or agree with — everything on our service," the update states. "While every title is different, we approach them based on the same set of principles: we support the artistic expression of the creators we choose to work with; we program for a diversity of audiences and tastes; and we let viewers decide what’s appropriate for them, versus having Netflix censor specific artists or voices."

It then adds: "If you’d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you."

Joe Rogan slams daughter's elementary school for pushing woke 'anti-racist' ideology onto young kids



Joe Rogan took aim at his 9-year-old daughter's California elementary school this week, slamming the institution for pushing woke "anti-racist" ideals on young children.

The massively popular podcaster claimed the school, which he doesn't name, issued a blanket statement to parents in May 2020 after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, telling them that their children "must be anti-racist."

Rogan slammed the school's email during Tuesday's episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience," arguing that the children were too young to understand the inflammatory message and charged that by telling them to be anti-racist, administrators were in essence introducing racism to them.

"When the whole George Floyd thing happened, one of the schools that my kids were going to back in California released this email, saying that it's not enough to not be racist, you now must be anti-racist," Rogan recalled.

"And my kid’s nine at the time," he continued, asking, "What does that, what does that mean?

"These kids are not even remotely racist. Like, they have all sorts of different kinds of friends," he went on to say. "I’ve never heard them discuss it once. It’s just, ‘I like this person and she’s nice to me and we like to play together and we both like the same things.'"

"So to tell a 9-year-old that you have to be anti-racist, well, then they go looking for racism, they’re gonna go looking to confront it," Rogan argued.

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Rogan went on to add that if schools wanted to teach kids that "racism is stupid," then "I’m all with you."

"But if you want to tell my 9-year-old, they have to be anti-racist. What does it mean?" he said.

The podcaster, who has recently dealt with his own controversy over past racial comments, also criticized the California educators for being "naive" in the implementation of their progressive ideology.

"They weren't that good at teaching in the first place," he claimed. "And now here there are saying they're going to tackle something, not just tackle something as complex as race in America, but you're going to establish rules that you can't just be not racist, you have to be anti-racist."

"And you're going to teach this to a 9-year-old?" he questioned. "So what are you saying? Like, what exactly are you saying, what is your f*****g end goal?"

Rogan reportedly made the comments during an interview with filmmaker and director David Mamet, during which the two discussed the current state of Hollywood.

(H/T: New York Post)

Salvation Army goes woke with​ new anti-racist message, asks white donors to apologize for their 'unconscious bias'



The Salvation Army — a massively popular Christian charity known for raising money through red collection boxes around the holidays — is now pushing "anti-racist" and critical race theory ideology onto donors.

What are the details?

This year, in addition to requesting monetary contribution towards the global mission, the organization is calling on donors to reckon with their deep-seated attitudes of racism, the National Review reports.

In a guidebook titled, "Let's Talk About Racism," the charity asks donors to consider the ways in which they have "consciously or unconsciously" supported prejudicial systems that inflict harm on racial minorities, adding that it "acknowledges with regret, that Salvationists have sometimes shared in the sins of racism and conformed to economic, organizational and social pressures that perpetuate racism."

Elsewhere in the document, the charity calls on white donors to "lament, repent and apologize for biases or racist ideologies held and actions committed."

Going forward, the Salvation Army says it hopes white donors will recognize their own contributions to racism and adopt "a posture of ... anti-racism," an ideological practice made popular by progressive author Ibram X. Kendi.

"In the absence of making anti-racist choices, we (un) consciously uphold aspects of White supremacy, White-dominant culture, and unequal institutions and society," the document states.

What else?

The charity reiterates its viewpoints in another document created by the Salvation Army's International Social Justice Commission, called the "Study Guide on Racism."

In that document, the Salvation Army plainly claims that racism is obvious and evident in nearly all facets of western society, and argues, "We must stop denying the existence of individual and systemic/institutional racism. They exist, and are still at work to keep White Americans in power."

White people are in fact guilty of "unconscious bias" and "unwittingly perpetuate racial division" even when they don't demonstrate overtly racist behavior.

"For instance, devout Christians who naively use racial epithets or a well-intentioned Sunday School curriculum that only uses white photography and imagery," the organization writes.

In the guide, the Salvation Army makes use of a litany of woke terms to articulate their message, including "anti-racist," "colonizer," "domestic terrorism," "fascism," "institutional racism," "microaggressions," "systemic racism," and "whiteness."

Anything else?

The organization's support for progressive "anti-racist" teaching has drawn the ire from some of its conservative donors, according to Newsweek.

One of those former donors is Christian apologist and radio talk show host Greg Koukl, who reportedly called out the charity's progressive drift in a Facebook post earlier this month.

"In my estimation, CRT is a Trojan horse taking in well-intentioned Christian enterprises that — because they care about justice and oppose oppression — naively promote the most serious threat to biblical Christianity I have seen in 50 years," the Stand to Reason founder stated in the post.

The Daily Signal, too, slammed the organization last month for imposing "radical wokeness" among Christians.

In response to questions from Newsweek, however, a spokesperson for the Salvation Army denied that its position on addressing racism has changed.

"Our beliefs have always been rooted in scripture, and they still are. That includes our complete rejection of racism, which is in stark contrast to the biblical principle that we're all created in the image of God. We believe that, as God loves us all, so we should all love one another," the spokesperson said.

Whistleblower documents: Walmart's critical race theory training teaches employees that America is a 'white supremacy system'



Walmart has a critical race theory training program that teaches employees that America is a "white supremacy system," according to internal documents from a whistleblower. The training program also reportedly singles out white employees, claiming they are guilty of "white supremacy thinking" and "internalized racial superiority."

Starting in 2018, Walmart began a partnership with Racial Equity Institute — a self-described "alliance of trainers, organizers, and institutional leaders who have devoted ourselves to the work of creating racially equitable organizations and systems." REI is a "multiracial team of organizers and trainers who are committed to the work of anti-racism transformation."

REI offers racial equity training through a two-day workshop. The racial equity workshops cost $20,000 for corporations, $15,000 for an institution, and $12,000 for a community. "The virtual presentation is capped at a firm 35 participants to maximize engagement," REI states.

Journalist Christopher F. Rufo published documents provided to him by a whistleblower pertaining to the Racial Equity Institute training given to Walmart employees. The CRT training was reportedly administered to over 1,000 Walmart employees. The "anti-racist" program is purportedly mandatory for Walmart executives and recommended for hourly wage workers.

The document from Walmart's "Culture, Diversity, and Inclusion" office thanks employees for participating in a "powerful and thought provoking two-day training facilitated by experts from the Racial Equity Institute (REI)."

"The program begins with the claim that the United States is a 'white supremacy system,' designed by white Europeans 'for the purpose of assigning and maintaining white skin access to power and privilege,'" Rufo wrote in City Journal. "American history is presented as a long sequence of oppressions, from the 'construction of a white race' by colonists in 1680 to President Obama's stimulus legislation in 2009, 'another race neutral act that has disproportionately benefited white people.'"

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The training, which is dated October 2019, lists "characteristics of white supremacy culture" that include "worship of the written word," "individualism," "paternalism," "objectivity," "defensiveness," and "right to comfort."

Walmart's CRT training claims that white people are guilty of "internalized racial superiority," while minorities suffer from "internalized racial inferiority." Minorities are also constrained by "constructed racist oppression," "lowered expectations," and "very limited choices," according to the leaked internal documents.

The "anti-racism" program features a "ladder of empowerment for white people" that instructs white Walmart employees that ideas of "we're all the same" and "I am not the problem" are racist constructs. The CRT training tells white people to accept their "guilt and shame," and take on the belief that "white is not right." To climb the top of the anti-racist ladder, white people need to take "collective action" and achieve a "community of resistance."

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A Walmart spokesperson told Rufo that the company has "engaged REI for a number of training sessions since 2018" and has "found these sessions to be thought provoking and constructive."

In May, Rufo published whistleblower documents that claimed Disney asked employees to complete a "white privilege checklist," and training that says America was founded on "systemic racism." Disney disputed Rufo's reporting, claiming the accusations "deliberately distorted" the company's policies.

In August, Rufo shared leaked internal documents from Verizon exposing a "Conscious Inclusion & Anti-Racism" training module. The training includes topics such as "institutional racism," "microaggressions," "microinequity," and "intersectionality."