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Chicago Sun-Times
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David A. Lieb | AP

‘Dilbert’ comic strip dropped by its syndicator over cartoonist Scott Adams’ comments on race

Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip “Dilbert,” with a blow-up of his title character in his studio in Dublin, Calif. (Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP)

“Dilbert” comic strip creator Scott Adams has been dropped by Andrews McMeel Universal, the distributor that long syndicated the strip, in perhaps the biggest repercussion of his comments last week describing people who are Black as members of “a hate group” from which white people should “get away.”

Hugh Andrews, Andrews McMeel’s chairman, and Andy Sareyan, its president and chief executive officer, said the syndication company was “severing our relationship” with the cartoonist.

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