“They offered me between $10,000 and $20,000.”

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White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo released a statement Thursday after being misled by the Daily Wire host Matt Walsh by paying “reparations” to a producer under a Borat-fake documentary type film entitled Am I racist?

In a statement posted on her website, DiAngelo wrote:

In 2023, I was contacted by a group claiming to be making a documentary film called Shades of Justiceon anti-racism efforts in the United States. They planned to interview anti-racist activists, authors, and thought leaders to support the cause of racial equity. They offered me $10,000 to $20,000 for an interview. I said we’d meet up sometime with $15,000 and agreed to participate (I’ve since donated that money to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund).

When I arrived for the interview, I felt a few odd things. The technicians wouldn’t make eye contact, and the interviewer, who introduced himself as “Matt,” appeared to be wearing an ill-fitting wig. Matt presented himself as someone new to anti-racism work and seemed serious, and his questions didn’t come across as hostile. By the end, though, things got weird.

DiAngelo explained that after Walsh brought up the issue of “reparations for black Americans,” he urged her to give money to her black producer Ben.

“He said if I believed in reparations, I should give Ben some money too,” DiAngelo explained, adding that even though she was uncomfortable with the whole situation, she took some money out of her wallet and handed it to the producer.

DiAngelo claimed that shortly after the interview ended, she realized she had been set up to participate in “a Borat-style mockumentary called Am I racist?“which was “designed to humiliate and discredit anti-racist educators and activists.”

The author concludes: “This experience reinforced to me the idea that it is essential to do thorough research before making yourself vulnerable to people you don’t know, or believing and sharing what you see online. They will not succeed in stopping their efforts to advance racial justice.”

Walsh responded to DiAngelo’s statement in a social media post Thursday night, writing that she was “right” in her assessment of the film.

“She claims the film is ‘designed to humiliate and discredit anti-racist educators and activists.’ She couldn’t be more right in that assertion. Thanks, Robin!” Walsh wrote.

In another article, the Daily Wire host also questioned why DiAngelo went ahead with the interview if she could spot her “ill-fitting wig.”

“My favorite part about this beautiful statement is that she says she noticed my ill-fitting wig when she first sat down with me,” he wrote. “And yet, for some reason, she still agreed to do the interview.”

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