Newspapers throughout the nation are pulling the “Dilbert” cartoon after a podcast racial rant from creator and writer Scott Adams.
Adams stated on his his Espresso with Scott Adams on-line video program that white folks ought to “get the hell away from Black folks,” labeling Blacks as a “hate group.”
The Dilbert cartoon is a satire on workplace politics and has been round for greater than three a long time. It has spawned a media empire that includes dozens of books, a online game, an animated tv sequence, and hundreds of espresso cups and associated merchandise. In 1997, Adams acquired the Nationwide Cartoonists Society Reuben Award, its highest honor.
Cleveland’s The Plain Seller revealed a Letter from the Editor Friday, stating that it was “not a tough choice” to ax the Adams cartooon. “We’re not a house for many who espouse racism,” the editor wrote. He added that Advance Media, its writer, was instituting comparable strikes at its different properties.
John Hiner of MLive Media in Michigan echoed the Plain Seller. He wrote in an editorial, “we’ll work shortly to discover a substitute that may entertain you and never violate primary requirements of decency and respect for others.”
