Your response reveals a lot but probably not what you imagined. You see what happened to Adams as the “constant barrage of white people as bad” instead of the refusal to accept obvious racism. He has classified every Black person as a member of a hate group, but this you accept because you can identify with where he’s coming from.

I have some experience with the AT&T culture but coming from a different direction. Prior to divestiture, I joined Southern Bell at a time when they were trying to professionalize their sales force. Their salespersons were basically order takers who, at best did a bit of business problem-solving by understanding customer needs and solving it with one of a few products. Southern Bell was not diverse and was in the midst of resolving multiple class action suits after a century of a good ole boy system.

I was technically a second-level manager though we didn’t actually supervise the union employees who installed the systems we sold. There was only one third-level manager I ever saw who was in an administrative position and not line. I was offered a promotion to sales manager (2B), which I declined, so it is possible to advance, but I saw no path for any Black person to advance rapidly within Southern Bell

When divestiture came, I went with ATTIX the long-distance arm of AT&T. I had the opportunity to visit corporate offices in Princeton and Cherry Hill. They were more professional but opportunities for Black employees were no better. If Affirmative Action classes were required it was because the company had no history of advancement and needed to change the culture. I left the company to become a Division Manager with a regional long distance carrier, Microtel.

You didn’t indicate whether Adams's advice to avoid all Black people is racist. He said he was going to stop helping us though I’ve seen nothing to suggest he ever did anything for anyone Black. He didn’t portray one in the comic strip for 33 years and only then to mock diversity. It isn’t canceling racists that’s the problem; it’s ignoring and accepting them.