u I was not the one who decided that the dumb guy would have the darker skin. Can we put that on the record? Not me.

All right. So I have accidentally been turned into a racist by somebody I don't know who decided to colorize that comic. So there you go.

The simultaneous sip did happen but I'm sorry there's some of you missed it.

Why are we using leftist framing? Yeah well I'm just telling you what the public is gonna say. All right it's all right no big deal. Well those of you say it's no big deal don't know the history that cartoonists experienced when I introduced Ashok the intern.

So if you follow the Dilbert strip you know that the intern is named Ashok. Yes okay which is the less common spelling. It's usually A S H O K but I knew somebody I worked with who spelled it differently A S O K. So I named my character after that. And now Ashok was born in India but he's an American citizen in the strip. And as soon as I introduced that character what do you think happened? That's right. The African-American community attacked the newspapers and said why is this African-American character so stupid when all of the other characters are smarter?

Now first of all it wasn't and isn't an African-American character. So the basis of the complaint was wrong. It was somebody born in India who's an American citizen. Now secondly it's not the dumb character in the strip. I make a comic strip in which all of the characters are acting dumb on different days. Sometimes they're all acting dumb. It's only a comic about dumb people. That's all it is. Everybody in the comic except Dog, who I guess is not even a human, is dumb. It's a whole comic about dumb people.

Now what do I do? I introduce one character who's got brown skin who's an Indian-American and the African-American community tries to get me canceled for not even talking about them in any way whatsoever.

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