Posted on 03/27/2021 3:56:52 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Sesame Street is now teaching race consciousness to little-bitties:
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I was born in 1967. Sesame Street was born two years later. I don’t remember a time before Sesame Street. It was my window into a world beyond the rural South. In 1999, when my wife and I moved to brownstone Brooklyn, I remember thinking, “I live on Sesame Street” — this, because the streets there reminded me of what I had grown up with. Though our parish (county) was half black and half white, until I started elementary school, I lived in a world that was de facto segregated. The interesting thing to me now is that I can’t recall anybody ever teaching me about white supremacy, or why segregation was a good thing, or any of it. Maybe some white parents did teach that to their kids, but mine didn’t. Still, the ambient feeling in the air was that white people and black people are very different, and have nothing in common, so we shouldn’t mix with black people more than we strictly have to. I don’t know if any black parents taught that to their children back then, but I imagine most black kids from my town of my generation grew up with the same set of unarticulated assumptions.
How could we not have? Landmark Civil Rights legislation was less than a decade old. You cannot change a culture that took hundreds of years to make with the stroke of a pen.
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Now it seems SS is going the other way. Too bad.... My kids enjoyed it... especially The Count.
The LAST thing the Left wants, is racial harmony.
They WANT antagonism leading to revolution.
I knew SS was going ghetto when I found they changed the theme to be hip like hip-hop.
I hate modern alleged kids stuff always using hip pop music instead of nice traditional innocent approach, like the real Disney did.
There is no good reason to make new children’s TV programming.
Reruns from the 1970s are brand-new to little kids.
They are still teaching the same alphabet, etc.
“I was born in 1967. Sesame Street was born two years later. I don’t remember a time before Sesame Street.”
Same here. It needs to end. It’s far past it’s sell-by date. It was pretty left-wing even 50 years ago when it was a bunch of hippies. I’m sure it’s really gay by now.
I couldn’t stand it when I was a kid. Never let ours watch it. Actually, they never cared to watch it.
My Grandparents lived in a biracial area near Gary Indiana and I played with black kids since I was 5-6 y.o. (They had a park next to their house i.e. an empty lot!) They liked the same things I did.
We lived in an all white Chicago suburb about a 1/2 hr away. When I was in the 4th grade, the first black family moved in and someone threw a Molotov cocktail through their living room window and I was scared to death.
We were German and at the time it made more sense to me to mad at Germans (My dad and uncles fought in WWII) than blacks. Later became friends with the black girl whose house was bombed. Never understood the black white thing.
Was a stay at home mom when my kids were little and never saw anything racists with SS but did have a problem with Arthur. He would lie and get away with it. Not in my house.
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Maybe they will rename it "Sodomy Street".
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