Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip "Dilbert," poses for a portrait with the Dilbert character in his studio in Dublin, Calif., in 2006. Several prominent media publishers across the U.S. are dropping the comic strip after Adams described people who are Black as members of "a racist hate group" during an online video show. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)
The distributor of Scott Adams' "Dilbert" comic strip, Andrews McMeel Universal, announced Sunday it was severing ties with the cartoonist.
This came after Adams urged white people "to get the hell away from Black people" during a racist rant on his online video program last week, during which he labeled Black people a "hate group."
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