Movie Review: ‘Abe’ Fails to Transcend Multicultural Pieties

Jerry Seinfeld got it right when he praised the black-and-white cookie on Seinfeld: “Two races of flavor living side by side in harmony. . . . If people would only look to the cookie, all our problems would be solved.”

And what would happen if that 1994 episode of the show, “The Dinner Party,” aired today? I assume Jerry would find himself widely denounced as racially insensitive, and NBC would get very nervous, not that it would even allow such an episode to air today.

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Jerry Seinfeld got it right when he praised the black-and-white cookie on Seinfeld: “Two races of flavor living side by side in harmony. . . . If people would only look to the cookie, all our problems would be solved.”

And what would happen if that 1994 episode of the show, “The Dinner Party,” aired today? I assume Jerry would find himself widely denounced as racially insensitive, and NBC would get very nervous, not that it would even allow such an episode to air today.