By RM
tuesday, jnuary 13, 2026 at 12:00:00 p.m. est
Scott Adams dead-nyt obit highlights "racism"
The nyt headline doesn't mention his career or his success- just that he was banned for "racist" comments made on a podcast. This is the first time I've heard this, so I had to look it up (the nyt paywall remover isn't working)-
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/26/1159580425/newspapers-have-dropped-the-dilbert-comic-strip-after-a-racist-rant-by-its-creat
I read it and can't see what was so offensive regarding blacks, more likely it was the other "hot buttons" he hit- the sacred lgbt (that we just took over a foreign country for), and other items I won't touch. USA = Police State, maybe more so under Trump than ever.
Personally I couldn't stand Adams- he's a stoner who once said he's a Trump supporter who would turn against Trump "big time," if the President did anything to curb marijuana use. And I've described his comic strip as being made up of "inexpressive stick figures." But I don't think he deserved to be banned by the corporate dictators. Per the nyt, that's his legacy.
On the topic of racism:
A TV Guide article on Robert Culp and I Spy from 1966-director Paul Wendkos described the Culp-Cosby relationship as a comment on "the irony of racial inequality," guest-star Godfrey Cambridge says White people watch the series because it "provides a relationship with a negro with no risk" [of being murdered?], and Sam Peckinpah, of all people (a friend of Culp), says Bob is "incensed by prejudice- he doesn't UNDERSTAND it."
Well, Sam threw away his talent with alcohol and drugs (taking buddy Warren Oates down with him), and Culp was a brilliant actor (one of my favorites) but unbearably pompous and pretentious. He was notoriously "difficult" and that's possibly why he missed out on stardom- after Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, he should have gone to the top, but instead the neanderthal Elliott Gould became the big name.
A lot of people didn't know any better, thanks to the mass media coverup-the well-spoken, well-groomed, polite, suit-and-tie black guy portrayed by Cosby was a myth. The rap-"gangsta" culture ripped the mask off, once and for all (and Cosby himself was taken down for condemning that lifestyle).
This is where we are now, courtesy of the "Idiocracy" president:
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/02/20/rapper-kodak-black-among-civil-rights-icons-sports-greats-at-white-house-black-history-month-celebration/
-RM
PS-I Spy was and is an excellent series. No preaching at all about race-Cosby's role (fantasy, though it was) was statement enough.
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