Dilbert dropped after racist rant by creator

The cartoon "Dilbert" has been dropped from numerous US newspapers in response to a racist rant by its creator on YouTube.

Scott Adams called Black Americans a "hate group" and suggested white Americans "get the hell away from Black people" in response to a conservative organization's poll purporting to show that many African Americans do not think it's OK to be white. "If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people ... that's a hate group," Adams said on his YouTube channel. "And I don't want to have anything to do with them."

The comments ignited a furor on social media. His once-popular comic strip, which lampoons corporate culture and was launched in 1989, will no longer be carried by the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the USA Today-affiliated group of newspapers and others, the newspapers announced.

Adams' remarks came in response to a Rasmussen Poll that appeared to show that 26 percent of Black respondents said they disagreed with the statement "It's okay to be white."