Dilbert Comic Strip Dropped From Cleveland Plain Dealer After Racist Rant (Video)
thewrap.comwrote in the Ohio newspaper, describing the content of Adams’ video.“He says a lot more in the video, mostly hateful and racist, all viewable on YouTube.
It’s a staggering string of statements, all but certain to result in the loss of his livelihood. I hate to quote him at all, but I do so to dissuade responses that this is a ‘cancel culture’ decision,” Quinn continued.In Adams’ video, he mentioned and quoted CNN host Don Lemon’s words about the disparity between Black and white neighborhoods.“This can’t be fixed.
You just have to escape. So that’s what I did. I went to a neighborhood where I have a very low black population,” Adams said. “Because unfortunately, there’s a high correlation between the density — this is according to Don Lemon by the way — so here I’m just quoting Don Lemon when he notes that the when he lived in a mostly black neighborhood, there were a bunch of problems they didn’t see in white neighborhoods.”He invoked the bootstrap narrative and the stereotype that Black people are lazy and can’t figure out how to succeed in society, resolving to not help them anymore.“This is a decision based on the principles of this news organization and the community we serve.
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