“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams is grappling with cancel culture after a racist rant made the rounds revealing his thoughts about Black people and calling African-Americans a hate group.
“If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people, that’s a hate group,” Adams said on his video blog.
Adams, the long-time comic strip creator’s rant went viral on Feb. 22 after he reacted to a conservative-leaning poll that asked, “Do you agree or disagree, it’s OK to be white.”
The 65-year-old, upset with responses to the poll, criticized Black people by questioning the community’s desire for education, quality of neighborhoods and outlook on life.
“I don’t want to have anything to do with them. And 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…because there is no fixing this,” Adams ranted.
The poll in question was conducted by Rasmussen Reports, a conservative-leaning polling group. The poll criticized “woke” culture, a political talking point, especially among conservatives criticizing social justice efforts. The poll suggested 26 percent of Black Americans disagreed with the statement “It’s Ok to be white,” and 21 percent were not sure.
Upset with the results, Adams, who once claimed to identify as Black, said, “I’m going to re-identify as white because I don’t want to identify as a hate group.”
Adams went on to reference CNN anchor Don Lemon to leverage personal commentary that claimed predominately “Black neighborhoods had more problems than white neighborhoods.”
He goes on to espouse his efforts to help the Black community although he did not provide specific examples in his monologue. He then implied Black Americans do not value education as much as white people.
“Everybody who focuses their priority on education does well, if anybody in the Black community focuses on…
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