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Edward Helmore and agencies

REVEALED: Dilbert cartoon dropped by us newspapers over creator s racist comments | Vintage Vibes

Scott Adams, the creator of the ‘Dilbert’ cartoon
Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert cartoon, pictured here in 1999, made a series of racist comments on his YouTube channel. Photograph: Fred Prouser/Reuters

The comic strip Dilbert has been dropped from multiple US newspapers in response to racist comments by its creator, Scott Adams, who called Black Americans a “hate group” and urged white people to “get the hell away” from Black people in a YouTube video.

Adams’s comments on 22 February came in response to a conservative organization’s poll which appeared to show that 26% of Black respondents said they disagreed with the statement “It’s OK to be white”. Another 21% said they were not sure.

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