‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams Says Outrage Over Racist Rant Came From White People: “Black America Is Actually Completely Fine”

Scott Adams, the man behind the Dilbert comic strip, says it wasn’t Black people offended over his recent racist rant, but more so white people.

In an interview with Chris Cuomo on NewsNation, the creator defended his original comments and said his message was not racist in nature.

“What I want your audience to know is that when I complained about Black people having a bad attitude about white people, that was me saying nothing about Black people. It was saying, ‘I don’t want to be around people who have a bad feeling about me,’” he said.

Since making the comments, hundreds of newspapers have dropped Adams’ famous comic strip, but he says that has nothing to do with Black people taking offense to his remarks.

“It’s almost entirely white people that canceled me. It might be entirely because they’re the ones that own the publishing companies and the newspapers,” he said, adding that “Black America” was “completely fine” with his stance once they reviewed the context.

 “So far, every black person I’ve talked to, and of course, a lot of people contacted me, said, ‘Hey, what’s going on,’ and I said, ‘Look at the context,’ and they say, ‘I get what you’re saying, it was kind of alarming when I first heard it,’ so, Black America is actually completely fine, both Conservative and liberal, if they see the context,” he said.

Adams made the controversial remarks during an episode on his YouTube show on Feb. 22, in which he urged white people to get away from Black people, NewsNation Now reported.

“I intentionally courted controversy. I was trying to attract attention so that I could have a productive argument,” Adams said, adding that his comments were merely hyperbole that were taken out of context.

Apparently, the discussion on a Rasmussen poll found that 53% of Black participants agreed with the statement “It’s OK to be white, in which 26% of Black participants said they disagreed. The remaining 21% said they were unsure, the outlet reported.

“I don’t think it makes any sense as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens anymore. It doesn’t make sense,” Adams followed up. “There’s no longer a rational impulse.”

Adams doesn’t seem to be backing down on his comments; in fact, he said, “If global cancellation is my price for free speech, it was worth it,” Adams said. “I’m probably the only white man in America who has free speech today because I can say whatever the hell I want, and I can’t get further canceled.”