Is Seinfeld (the show) racist? [View All]

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Syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. in an editorial about Michael Richards and racism writes:

"After all, modern bigotry usually isn't some nitwit screaming the N-word. It is jobs you don't get and loans you don't get and apartments you don't get and health care you don't get and justice you don't get, for reasons you get all too clearly, even though no one ever quite speaks them. Or needs to. It is smiles in your face and knives in your back.

And it is, yes, a sitcom — like "Seinfeld" — that presents New York City, of all places, as a black-free zone."

First, does Seinfeld present New York City as a "black-free zone"?

And is it fair to characterize that program an example of the kind of modern bigotry to which Pitts is referencing?

Here is a link to the editorial:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2003448050_pitts26.html