![]() "We are not a home for those who espouse racism," Quinn wrote. Just get away."Įditor Chris Quinn, of / The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, called Adams' video statement "hateful and racist." "I'm not saying start a war or do anything bad," he added. It makes no sense to help Black Americans if you're white. "I'm going to back off from being helpful to Black America because it doesn't seem like it pays off," he said. "It turns out that nearly half of that team doesn't think I'm okay to be white," he said, adding that he would re-identify as white. Adams said the results of the Rasmussen poll changed his mind. On his video show last week, the 65 year old said he had been identifying as Black "because I like to be on the winning team," and that he used to help the Black community. According to Andrews McMeel Syndication, Dilbert appeared in 2,000 newspapers in 65 countries and 25 languages.Īdams has made news for other controversial statements, including questioning the accuracy of the Holocaust death toll. For three decades, he produced his comic strip Dilbert, which satirizes office culture. He was also a vocal supporter of Donald Trump. On his YouTube livestream program, Real Coffee with Scott Adams, the cartoonist said the results of that poll demonstrate the country's racial tensions "can't be fixed."Īdams previously claimed he was a victim of racism in Hollywood and corporate America. The Anti-Defamation League has denounced it as a hate chant. ![]() The statement "It's OK to be white" has been repeated on right-wing websites and in speeches. Some 26% of Black respondents disagreed, and 21% said they are "not sure." The poll also found that 79% of all the respondents agreed with the statement "Black people can be racist too." The report found that 72% of the respondents agreed, including 53% who are Black. Then, 13 minutes into the video, Adams began his screed by citing the results of a recent public opinion poll conducted by the conservative-leaning Rasmussen Reports.īy telephone and online, the group surveyed a thousand American adults, with this question: "Do you agree or disagree with this statement, 'It's OK to be white'?" The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and other newspapers across the country had already announced they would no longer carry the syndicated comic strip.Īdams opens the episode of the online program discussing the presidential bid by Republican multimillionaire entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. This came after Adams urged white people "to get the hell away from Black people" during a racist rant on his online video program last week, during which he labeled Black people a "hate group." The distributor of Scott Adams' Dilbert comic strip, Andrews McMeel Universal, announced Sunday it was severing ties with the cartoonist. are dropping the comic strip after Adams described people who are Black as members of "a racist hate group" during an online video show. ![]() Several prominent media publishers across the U.S. Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, poses for a portrait with the Dilbert character in his studio in Dublin, Calif., in 2006. ![]()
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