Posted on 03/24/2021 10:55:30 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
"Sesame Street" is introducing two new Muppets, a Black father and son, as part of an effort to help children understand racial literacy.
The two Muppets, Wes and Elijah, were introduced in a short video created by Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind the long-running show. In the video, Elmo wants to know why Wes's skin is brown, so his father Elijah explains the concept of melanin and how "the color of our skin is an important part of who we are," according to a press release from Sesame Workshop.
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It takes two puppeteers to operate a Muppet. They only have a budget for so many puppeteers.
I just substitute taught in a 5th grade classroom in a very conservative area of SC (the class was 90 percent white). As I was perusing the teacher’s classroom library, you were hard pressed to find a book that didn’t have a black person on the cover (fiction and nonfiction). The list of SC Book of the Year award winners contained about 90 percent stories about blacks.
Bert was yellow, that’s as close as it got.
are there White muppets?
If my skin color is an important part of who I am, shouldn't it also be important to others? Shouldn't it also be an important criterion in job application processes?
How about in determining the innocence or guilt of a person charged with a crime?
Regards,
Please-—PRAY TELL ME: What exactly is racial literacy???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_literacy
Racial literacy is a concept developed by sociologist France Winddance Twine. She describes it as “a form of racial socialization and antiracist training that ... parents of African-descent children practiced in their efforts to defend their children against racism” in her research done in the United Kingdom with mixed-race families.
She further describes it as “cultural strategies and practices designed and employed by parents to teach children of African and Caribbean heritage (1) detect, document, and name antiblack racist ideologies, semiotics, and practices; (2) provide discursive resources that counter racism; and (3) provide aesthetic and material resources (including art, toys, books, music) that valorize and strengthen their connections to the transatlantic culture of black people in Africa, the Caribbean and the United States”.[1]
Twine’s concept of racial literacy is to be distinguished from the term ‘race literacy’ as conceptualized by Lani Guinier, a professor of law and critical race scholar at Harvard University. The concept of racial literacy as conceptualized by Twine refers to a set of practices designed by parents and others to teach their children how to recognize, respond to and counter forms of everyday racism. The emphasis here is on teaching children as well as adults how to identify routine forms of racism and to develop strategies for countering it and coping with it.
Give it time. They will have one named white-y in which all the other Muppets can insult and attack.
They will probably be named Steve and Bill.
Or Neal and Bob, or is that what they do?
So they spend, literally, decades telling us melanin means NOTHING... And now it’s “important”.
Eff it. I’m done. I hate you all.
damn...
Good one. Leftist society wants it believed that blacks are just like white people only their skin color makes them superior and so therefore to be given preferential treatment (because slavery).
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