SAN FRANCISCO — Scott Adams, the creator of the internationally syndicated “Dilbert” comic strip, unleashed a racist rant this week on YouTube, saying Black people are a hate group and “I don’t wanna have anything to do with ’em” — a statement that is being met with condemnation, including the cancellation of his cartoons from newspapers.
Adams, a Bay Area resident, made the offensive comments on his “Real Coffee with Scott Adams” video show, after erroneously concluding that a poll had found “nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people.”
He was referring to a recent Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 American adults who were asked whether they agreed with the statement “It’s OK to be white,” a phrase the Anti-Defamation League has labeled as hate speech. Yet, according to Rasmussen, 72 percent of Americans agreed with the statement, including 53 percent of Black respondents. Twenty-two percent of Americans disagreed with the statement, including 26 percent of Black respondents.
“If nearly half of Blacks are not OK with white people — according to this poll, not according to me, according to this poll — uh, that’s a hate group,” Adams said on his show. “That’s a hate group and I don’t wanna have anything to do with ’em. And I would say the best advice I could give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people — just get the f___ away, wherever you have to go.”
“It makes no sense whatsoever as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens anymore,” he said. Adams furthered his offensive rant by saying that he escaped by living in a neighborhood with a “very low” Black population.
Adams’ diatribe was met with fury online. Actress Marsha Warfield shared the clip to her Twitter timeline, saying, “Because nothing is racist to a racist, or they’d have to admit…
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