Posted on 07/20/2022 2:14:49 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
A day after the mother of two young Black girls called out Sesame Place in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for an incident over the weekend in which a character at the theme park appeared to deny and pass by her girls, an attorney for the family said the event has had a devastating effect on them.
"Their hearts were completely shattered by a character," attorney B'Ivory LaMarr told NBC10 in an interview Tuesday. "And tickets are not cheap. This is something these young girls were looking forward to. Words can't describe the type of grief they are going through right now."
In the now viral video posted Saturday on the mother’s Instagram account, two young girls are seen excitedly reaching out to the character Rosita, the first bilingual muppet on Sesame Street. Although it appears that the performer had interacted with other children before reaching the girls, the video seems to show the character shaking their head “no” in the direction of the two young Black girls.
“We were on our way out of sesame place and the kids wanted to stop to see the characters,” the mom wrote on Instagram. “THIS DISGUSTING person blatantly told our kids NO then proceeded to hug the little white girl next to us!”
In response, Sesame Place Philadelphia said in a statement on Instagram Sunday that it the performer did not direct the "no" hand gesture, which was used more than once in the video, toward “any specific person,” but was instead gesturing that way in “response to multiple requests from someone in the crowd who asked Rosita to hold their child for a photo which is not permitted.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcphiladelphia.com ...
That is funny.
SORRY! That Philly paper is RACIST because they capitalized Black but not white, when referring to people.
Yep it pays to say EVERYTHING IS RACIST
BTW, black characters have always been a part of Sesame Street when I started watching it in 1974.
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Haven’t you heard? Eye rolls are a harmful practice rooted in white supremacy.
Without the assumption their case goes poof.
Another clear case of DO YOU KNOW WHAT COLOR I AM?.
To live in this town, you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough (shadoobie, shattered, shadoobie, shattered, shattered)
“This is the kind of parent who has a complete nervous collapse ...”
The kids are surrounded by people that are emotionally exploding (or faking it). They are bound to be confused and upset.
Has anyone ever seen “The Big Sniffer” sniff a black child?
Do you think you'll ever stop being a hypochondriac, or is it too much fun pretending it's the Bubonic plague and demanding other people wear placebo masks?
Apology ain’t ‘nuff, da wants $$$$$$$.
Is this a Babylon Bee article? Sounds too absurd to be reality.
The start of turning your daughter into a **racist** entitled princess.
I can’t believe this is even a story.
The horror! Just fishing for some money.
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