The company that syndicates “Dilbert,” said it is cutting ties with the popular comic strip creator Scott Adams, after what they call racist remarks about black Americans. Hundreds of newspapers have dropped his comic strip, which is widely syndicated by Andrews McMeel Universal.
Andrews McMeel Chairman Hugh Andrews and CEO and President Andy Sareyan said the syndicator was “severing our relationship” with Adams, and “we will never support any commentary rooted in discrimination or hate.”
The question about whether Adams was making a racist comment or was making an observation of racism among black Americans is clear: He was commenting about a poll that shows a large number of black Americans don’t believe it’s ok to be white.
Penguin Random House’s subsidiary Portfolio said it will no longer publisher Adams’ forthcoming book, “Reframe Your Brain,” which was set to be released in September.
On Twitter, Adams said that Portfolio has said it will no longer print any of his past titles.
In addition to his comic creations, Adams has published book titles such as, “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big,” and “Bigly.”
During one of his video episodes of his podcast, broadcast on Feb. 22, Adams referred to a Rasmussen survey that finds that 53% apparently found out that 53% of black Americans agree with the phrase, “It’s okay to be white.”
He said this was the first political poll that has changed his activities, and that if blacks don’t think it’s OK for him to be white, then they are part of a hate group. The poll got him thinking about his.
“I’ve been identifying as black for a while because I like to be on the winning team,” Adams said in a YouTube video. “And I like to help. I always thought if you help the black community, that’s sort of the biggest lever, you could find, the biggest benefit. But, it turns out that nearly half of that team doesn’t think I’m okay to be white.”
Then Adams said he will “re-identify as White, because I don’t want to be a member of a hate group. I had accidentally joined a hate group. If nearly half of blacks are not OK with white people, according to this poll, not according to me, according to this poll, that’s a hate group. That’s a hate group. And I don’t want to have anything to do with them.” It got even spicier after that.
“I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people,” Adams said. “Just get the hell away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed.”
Among newspapers that canceled his comic strip are The Los Angeles Times, The New York Daily News, The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Albuquerque Journal, The Boston Globe, Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, Santa Fe New Mexican, The (Spokane) Spokesman-Review , The Seattle Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Salt Lake Tribune, and a growing list, which Adams predicted would leave him with no newspapers by Monday.
Watch the entire Episode 2027, “Real Coffee with Scott Adams at his YouTube channel, and see the comments in context … before Adams gets canceled by YouTube’s parent company, Google:
