Dilbert cartoon dropped by US newspapers over creator’s racist comments

Once-popular cartoon scrapped from hundreds of papers after Scott Adams calls Black people a hate group' on his YouTube show

The comic strip Dilbert has been dropped from multiple US newspapers in response to racist comments by its creator, Scott Adams, who called Black Americans a hate group" and urged white people to get the hell away" from Black people in a YouTube video.

Adams's comments on 22 February came in response to a conservative organization's poll which appeared to show that 26% of Black respondents said they disagreed with the statement It's OK to be white". Another 21% said they were not sure.

Reuters and the Associated Press contributed reporting