Newspapers Drop ‘Dilbert’ After Creator’s Rant About Black ‘Hate Group’

Andrews McMeel Syndication, the company that syndicates “Dilbert,” did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on Saturday night.

In the video from Tuesday that led to backlash, Mr. Adams, who is white, said he had “started identifying as Black” years ago and then brought up a poll by Rasmussen Reports that found that 53 percent of Black Americans agreed with the statement “It’s okay to be white.”

Rasmussen Reports did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on Saturday about its data.

Mr. Adams said in the video that he took issue with Black Americans who were polled and who had not agreed with that statement.

“That’s a hate group, and I don’t want to have anything to do with them,” he said, adding that it “makes no sense to help Black Americans if you’re white.”

Mr. Quinn, the editor of The Plain Dealer, described the comments as a “staggering string of statements, all but certain to result in the loss of his livelihood.”

“I hate to quote him at all, but I do so to dissuade responses that this is a ‘cancel culture’ decision,” Mr. Quinn said.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/us/dilbert-newspapers-racism.html