An Open Letter to Dilbert Cartoonist Scott Adams’ Racist Rant
I won’t hate you, but I’m filled with pity as a Black Cartoonist.
Dear Scott,
You described Black people as members of “a racist hate group” during an online video show and ranted about how white people should distance themselves from all Black people.
Now that newspapers are, unsurprisingly, dropping your Dilbert comic strip and your syndicate is letting you go, you’re complaining about a lack of free speech in America and surprised you’re being “canceled?”
Listen, Scott, you can go on all the ridiculous racist rants you’d like in public, but you still have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You don’t get a pass.
No one is that famous.
As a Black cartoonist myself, not as famous as you are, of course, but my comic strip Little Fried Chicken and Sushi is syndicated online, also through Andrews McMeel on GoComics. I know how hard the weekly grind can be for publishing new strips consistently, and they must be funny and topical always without even a week off or break.
Making a syndicated comic strip is enjoyable but an endless marathon.
