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Dilbert Is Dead Because Not Enough Black People Said Thank You
This Dilbert strip was one of Scott Adam’s top 10 favorites of all of the thousands of comic strips he created since April 1989. The Black character identifying as white is “Dave.” Dave was brought into the strip’s world in 2022.
Scott Adams has, in a very nasty way, put his foot into his mouth by being more human, and probably too white than we wanted him to be. Because of the Scott who resides in the world external to the small little windows onto a corporate-ness that so many of us have had the pleasure and displeasure of knowing “only too well,” the new adventures of our heroes, Dilbert, Dogbert, and so many others will likely soon be exiled to the brain of their creator.
The crime? Scott Adams forgot that people were listening. He forgot that the racist thoughts whirling around in his head were never supposed to be spoken to anyone in public. They were supposed to sit there, in the putrid and dank backroom of his white man’s brain, and never be dragged out into the open.
But, Dilbert’s god, went rummaging through the old chest of memories and saw a particularly interesting old uniform. It’s called, “weak, well-to-do, white guy syndrome” and Adams put it on. He then stood in front of the mirror known as YouTube to show us all.
“Based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white…
