In just over a week from today, we will know who the next President of the United States is going to be. Or maybe it’ll be more like two weeks from today. Or two months. Or, it could be at exactly 2:00am on Wednesday morning when a bunch of ballots for Kamala Harris materialize magically out of the ether. It’s very difficult to predict. But one way or another, some time in the not too distant future, we will have a new president. That much we know.
We also know that, no matter what happens on November 5 — and the days and weeks that follow — the fight for our culture will continue. Hopefully we will be marching forward with a victorious spirit and a feeling of triumph, having just defeated Kamala Harris and having sent her to fade into obscurity to never again be spoken of. Because we can be sure that if she loses, the Democrat Party will throw Kamala and her whole camp into the deepest and darkest memory-hole that they can find, and pretend that she never existed. God willing, that’s our future. One where we are the winning side, and our job is to keep pushing forward, pressing our advantage, and turning our political success into cultural change.
But it’s also quite possible that things go the other way and Kamala wins — whether she actually wins or not. In that case we will not be feeling quite so victorious or triumphant. We will be condemned to four years of that hideous, ungodly cackle ringing in our ears. The auditory torture, of course, will be the least of our problems. It will be a deeply depressing reality. Yet the fight will continue in that case, too, and take on a new and greater urgency. There is no scenario — no outcome in this election, or any election — that will allow us to kick up our feet, or hang our heads, and declare the fight over. It continues, and so do we.
That’s why I think it’s good timing that my new film, “Am I Racist?,” debuts on Daily Wire today, October 28. Right now, you can go to DailyWire.com, sign up for a membership, and watch the number one documentary of the decade, which is also one of the top 35 highest grossing documentaries of all time. “Am I Racist?” is my satirical investigation of the DEI scam, and the Left-wing race hustle that makes that scam possible. The film follows my profoundly emotional and heartfelt journey of self-discovery and racial awakening. A journey that begins with me becoming DEI certified, and ends — well, you’ll just have to see where it ends for yourself. Things get very weird, and very dark — but also, always, hilarious.
I say that it’s good timing for the film to hit the platform today — available to watch right now, after you become a member — for a couple of reasons.
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First of all, Kamala Harris is truly our first DEI presidential candidate. She’s not the first race hustling candidate. We’ve had plenty of those in my lifetime. And she’s not the first to run on a platform grounded in Left-wing intersectional victimology. We’ve had plenty of those, too. She is the worst of the bunch, in both cases, but not the first. She is, however, the first person in the history of American politics to have been awarded a major party presidential nomination purely because she checks the necessary demographic boxes, and without a single vote being cast in her favor. Calling her a DEI candidate is not a “slur” — or at least if it is a slur, it happens to be an accurate one.
We came up with the idea for “Am I Racist?” all the way back in the fall of 2022, shortly after my first film, “What Is A Woman?” was released. We had no way of knowing back then, or at any point during the 18 months of filming, that our cinematic broadside against the DEI scam would land right before an election featuring our first DEI candidate. We thought it would be an election featuring our first fully comatose candidate in Joe Biden. Instead we have one who’s only partially comatose in Kamala Harris. But then Biden was sacked just a few weeks after we finished post production on the film. Pretty soon it became obvious that “Am I Racist?” was more relevant and more timely than we even realized.
It reminded us of that moment in March of 2022 when Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) famously asked Ketanji Brown Jackson to define the word “woman.” The soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice infamously responded that she is “not a biologist” and therefore cannot answer a question that any halfway literate third grader could answer. That moment propelled the “What Is A Woman?” question into the headlines. As it happened, we had just wrapped post production on a movie with that question as its title.
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At the risk of sounding too self-serious, I don’t think that these are mere fortunate coincidences. I believe that in both cases we made the films that God wanted us to make. They were unleashed on the world right when they needed to be. Filming “Am I Racist?” was a longer and more painful process than I imagined at the start. The thing about a creative project that takes a long while to finish is that you have plenty of time — way too much time — to second guess yourself. Eventually, you start to wonder why you ever took on the project to begin with. To be honest, I’ve written three books and made two movies and the “why did I ever decide to do this?” phase seems to just be an inevitable part of the creative process. At least it is for me. But with this film, and the last one, the answer to the “why” question became very clear once it was finished and released.
“Am I Racist?” is exposing a type of evil that has now been made manifest, politically, in the candidacy of Kamala Harris. But she is just one manifestation, however dire and dangerous. Left-wing racial ideology has wreaked havoc on society much more broadly than this one person. It is an evil that not only deserves to be mocked but must be mocked. Ruthlessly and mercilessly, as we do in the film. That’s why I’m glad that the movie is hitting streaming on the Daily Wire today, a week before the election. Now is the best possible time to confront this madness for what it is, and laugh hysterically at it.
Second, the larger fight isn’t just about DEI, or race, or the election. This is a fight for the culture. What is the culture? Well, the culture is everything. It’s all of the values and beliefs and traditions and customs and characteristics that define us as a nation. That’s why I have no patience for people — especially conservatives — who roll their eyes and wave away “the culture war” as some kind of irrelevant side show. It’s not a side show. It’s the whole show. It’s the fight over who we are, and who we will be. What could possibly be more important than that? Our culture is what our country is made of. The culture matters for the same reason that the air you’re breathing right now matters.
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Culture is shaped and influenced by many things, but not by any one thing so much as art: Movies, TV shows, music, entertainment. You can’t fight for the culture if you aren’t fighting in this realm. That’s why we took on the significant expense and risk of making “Am I Racist?” and even putting it in theaters before its platform release today. It’s why the number one rule we set for ourselves while making the film was that it had to be funny and it had to be entertaining and it had to tell a story. We put that ahead of the message, ahead of our desire to inform, ahead of everything. This needed to be a real film, not a sermon wearing the thin cloak of a film. It needed to be a film that people watch and enjoy — enjoy because they enjoy it, not because they think they should enjoy it, or because they enjoy the idea of it. That’s how conservative art has worked for many years now. And for that reason, conservative art has had no cultural impact. It hasn’t mattered. We wanted to help change that.
That was the ambition that drove us to make this movie, and to make it the way we made it. It’s also what drives all of us here at the Daily Wire every day. We are here to move the culture. That is our single-minded focus. And we can’t do it without you. So go to DailyWire.com, get your membership if you haven’t yet, and watch “Am I Racist?” Then stick around for what’s next. Because, one way or another, the fight is just beginning.
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