A few weeks ago, Cliff Albright, the co-founder of Black Voters Matter, brought up an unlikely topic during a weekly staff meeting: the HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm.
The first episode of the show’s 12th and final season had just premiered. At the end of the episode, Larry David, the co-creator of Seinfeld and the show’s curmudgeonly, faux-pas-prone protagonist, gets arrested for giving a bottle of water to another character as she stands in the sweltering Georgia heat. “That’s barbaric – what kind of law? Are you serious?,” David says as he’s led away in handcuffs by two police officers. He winds up getting a mugshot taken in the style of Donald Trump in Fulton county.
